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Little Boy Lost

Little Boy Lost, August 2017
by J.D. Trafford

Thomas & Mercer
316 pages
ISBN: 1503943941
EAN: 9781503943940
Kindle: B073PXHHH2
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"Will he discover the truth?"

Fresh Fiction Review

Little Boy Lost
J.D. Trafford

Reviewed by Sharon Salituro
Posted March 25, 2018

Thriller Serial Killer

Justin Glass comes from a rich family, but you would never know it. Justin is a lawyer and works in a very shabby office. He's doing his best to raise his daughter Sammy after his wife passed away. Justin doesn't have very many clients, until a young African-American girl named Tanisha walks into his office with a jar of money and wants to hire him to find her missing brother, Devon. Along with all of this, his senator father is set to retire, and he wants Justin to take his seat. Lincoln, Justin's brother, wants the seat for himself, which is causing friction in their family.

Justin really doesn't want to take Tanisha's case, because he believes that black boys run away all the time. Justin does do some investigating on her brother's whereabouts but finds out the police never take the time to look into cases like this one. That is until he gets a call from a detective requesting him to come to a murder scene. What Justin finds is very upsetting. Not only does he find Devon, but several other black children that had gone missing.

In the mist of all the racial violence that has been going on, this is not acceptable to Justin. So, Justin decides to do his own investigating. Some of the things that he comes upon, some legal some not, leads him to several suspects. Why would someone want to dispose of these boys? That is what Justin is trying to find out.

J. D. Trafford writes a great mystery. It is a shame that in 2017 we still have people that feel they can take it upon themselves to get rid of people. Trafford shows the struggles that not only black people go through, but that something like this could happen anywhere. Trafford also tells the story of Justin, who struggles with his own demons.

Trafford shows that no matter white or black, sometimes children can be very cruel. Justin's family has money, but he prefers to do things on his own, leading to his daughter getting bullied in school. Once people find out her family has money, things change and not for the better.

LITTLE BOY LOST is another great mystery to pick up and read. Enjoy!

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SUMMARY

Attorney Justin Glass’s practice, housed in a shabby office on the north side of Saint Louis, isn’t doing so well that he can afford to work for free. But when eight- year-old Tanisha Walker offers him a jar full of change to find her missing brother, he doesn’t have the heart to turn her away.

Justin had hoped to find the boy alive and well. But all that was found of Devon Walker was his brutally murdered body—and the bodies of twelve other African American teenagers, all discarded like trash in a mass grave. Each had been reported missing. And none had been investigated.

As simmering racial tensions explode into violence, Justin finds himself caught in the tide. And as he gives voice to the discontent plaguing the city’s forgotten and ignored, he vows to search for the killer who preys upon them.


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