Finders Keepers Author Surname:Bauer

Finders Keepers Author Surname:BauerChildren are being stolen from cars and each disappearance is marked only by a terse note a brutal accusation. There are no explanations, no ransom demands and no hope. Policeman Jonas Holly faces a precarious journey into the warped mind of the kidnapper if he's to stand any chance of catching him.

the thieves and criminals are as likely to be in government - or even the police - as on the streets

First published in 1949 this was the first of three detective thrillers penned by Joan Cockin

Travel down the Nile

But only one of them is capable of murder

He begins to piece together the connection of two young people who are inextricably linked to the crime: the dark

mysterious circumstances he has ever investigated

The truth 1969

is struggling with her demons

But Hazel's not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region

he is found to have been murdered

As the investigation turns up nothing but dead ends

she starts to fear that the conferences he travels the country to attend might be a cover for something far more sinister