Minotaur Books
Featuring: Charlie Olmstead; Police Chief Jim Campbell; Eric Olmstead
368 pages ISBN: 0312622813 EAN: 9780312622817 Hardcover Add to Wish List
July 20th 1969 was a very special day in the history of
America. It was the night that Neil Armstrong walked on the
moon for the first time. This date was also memorable in the
little town of Perry Hollow, Pennsylvania as that was the
night that 10 year old Charlie Olmstead rode away on his
bicycle to look at the moon and was never seen again. When
Police Chief Jim Campbell found Charlie's battered bicycle
in the water above Sunset Falls, he assumed that Charlie had
gone over the falls to a certain death. Everyone believed
this except Maggie Olmstead, Charlie's mother. She never
stopped looking for him right up until the day she died.
Eric Olmstead, younger brother of Charlie, was only a baby
when his older brother disappeared but he knew about him.
Now a famous writer, Eric has returned temporarily to Perry
Hollow to bury his mother and honor her death bed request.
Maggie's last wish was for Eric to find Charlie. He hires
Nick Donnelly of the Sarah Donnelly Foundation, an
organization that helps find missing people. It happens that
Nick is very good friends with the current Police Chief Kat
Campbell, daughter of Jim. She's also Eric's former high
school sweetheart.
Eric, Kat and Nick start a unified effort to finally put to
rest what happened to Charlie on that night over 40 years
ago. As they dig deeper, they discover that Maggie had done
a lot of work during those 40 years with her own personal
investigation that no one knew about until Eric uncovered
her efforts. In her search for Charlie, she uncovered many
clues that led to the very disturbing suggestion that
Charlie wasn't the only boy that disappeared during those
years.
This new information brings a lot of buried secrets to
light; secrets that could have been life altering had they
been exposed 40 years ago. Some of those secrets may still
affect many lives. As the hunt brings Kat, Nick and Eric
closer to the truth of what happened those many
years ago, they unwittingly bring danger closer to them.
They need to find the truth and fast... before it's too
late.
I LOVED this book! The characters crafted by Todd Ritter are
some of the most interesting I've encountered in any book.
He makes them so three dimensional that they're practically
having coffee with you in your living room. The plot of this
book is also a stunner. I honestly never saw any of it
coming, particularly the resolution. BAD MOON is Todd's
second book featuring Kat Campbell. I'll definitely be
reading the first book and highly anticipating the next one.
"The case of a boy missing for 40 years explodes into the
present in Todd Ritter's second novel, featuring Perry
Hollow Police Chief Kat Campbell. On the same night that
Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, nine-year-old Charlie
Olmstead jumped on his bike to see if he could get a better
look. It was the last anyone ever saw of him. After Perry
Hollow Police Chief Jim Campbell found Charlie's bike caught
up above a waterfall, he assumed the worse, and so did
everyone else except Charlie's mother. Years later, Eric
Olmstead--and famous author and Charlie's brother--has come
back to bury his mother and fulfill her last request: Find
his brother. To do so he goes to the current police chief
and his former sweetheart Kat Campell, and it isn't long
before they discover that finding Charlie was his mother's
secret obsession, and while she never found him she
uncovered clues suggesting that he wasn't the only victim.
BAD MOON, Todd Ritter's excellent follow-up to his acclaimed
debut, tells the haunting story of a small town that found
lies easier to believe than the truth"--
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