商品簡介
Amanda Baron died in a boating accident on the Ohio River in 1953. Or, did she? Her body was never found and while it was generally accepted that she had died when a coal barge rammed the pleasure boat she was sharing with her lover, her body was never found.
Travis Baron was an infant when his mother disappeared. After the accident and the subsequent publicity, Travis’s father removed all evidence that Amanda Baron had ever lived, and her name was never to be uttered around him. Now fifteen years old, Travis yearns to know more about the mother who disappeared when he was very young. With the help of his best friend, Mitch Malone, Travis begins a search for the truth about the mother he never knew. The two boys find unexpected aid from an unlikely source: an alcoholic former detective who served time for fudging evidence. But the information he provides about the death of Amanda Baron is indisputable—and dangerous.
Now, Travis fears for his life and must devise a way to make his disappearance as mysterious as that of his mother’s.
作者簡介
Robin Yocum is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Favorite Sonsand The Essay. Favorite Sons was named the 2011 USA Book News’ Book of the Year for Mystery/Suspense. It was selected for the Choose to Read Ohio program for 2013-14 and was a featured book of the 2012 Ohioana Book Festival. Yocum is also the author of Dead Before Deadline . . . and Other Tales from the Police Beatand Insured for Murder (with Catherine Candisky). He is the president of Yocum Communications, a public relations and marketing firm in Westerville, Ohio. He is well known for his work as a crime and investigative reporter with theColumbus Dispatch from 1980-1991. He was the recipient of more than thirty local, state, and national journalism awards in categories ranging from investigative reporting to feature writing.
