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'It was a butcher on smoko who reported the man stashing the kid in the car boot. He didn't really know whether he'd seen anything at all, though. Maybe an abduction? Maybe just a stressed-out father.
'Detective Bart Moy, newly returned to the country town where his ailing, cantankerous father still lives, finds nothing. As far as he can tell no one in Guilderton is missing a small boy. Still, he looks deeper into the butcher's story—after all, he had a son of his own once.
'But when the boy does turn up, silent, apparently traumatised, things are no clearer. Who is he? Where did he come from and what happened to him?
'For Moy, gaining the boy's trust becomes central not just to the case but to rebuilding his own life. From the wreckage of his grief, his dead marriage and his fractured relationship with his father may yet come a chance for something new.
'A mystery, a meditation on fatherhood, a harrowing examination of love and loss: a new departure in literary crime from Stephen Orr.' (Publisher's blurb)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Review : One Boy Missing
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , April 2014; (p. 43)
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Well Read
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 25 January 2014; (p. 24)
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The Missing
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 359 2014;
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Characters in Search of Salvation
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 22-23 February 2014; (p. 18)
— Review of One Boy Missing 2014 single work novel -
Small-Town Mentality
Woe in the Wheatbelt
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8-9 February 2014; (p. 33) The Age , 8 February 2014; (p. 28)
— Review of One Boy Missing 2014 single work novel
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Review : One Boy Missing
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , October vol. 93 no. 2 2013; (p. 22)
— Review of One Boy Missing 2014 single work novel -
Small-Town Mentality
Woe in the Wheatbelt
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8-9 February 2014; (p. 33) The Age , 8 February 2014; (p. 28)
— Review of One Boy Missing 2014 single work novel -
Characters in Search of Salvation
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 22-23 February 2014; (p. 18)
— Review of One Boy Missing 2014 single work novel -
The Missing
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 359 2014;
— Review of One Boy Missing 2014 single work novel -
Well Read
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 25 January 2014; (p. 24)
— Review of One Boy Missing 2014 single work novel
Awards
- 2014 shortlisted Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best Novel