And there he kept her

Joshua Moehling

Book - 2022

"When misguided teenagers Jesse Crawford and Jenny Wheeler are forced to rob Emmett Brown to escape impossible circumstances, what starts as a home invasion quickly turns into a nightmare for the teens. What Jesse and Jenny don't know is that although Emmett is now old, severely obese, and in chronic pain, Emmett was responsible for the kidnapping and deaths of two young women almost twenty years ago, crimes that have never been solved. So Emmett is quick to turn the tables, blurring the lines between who the real victim is here. Ben Packard, a sheriff's deputy and former Minneapolis cop who fled the Twin Cities after his boyfriend was killed in the line of duty, is leading the investigation into the missing teens with a keen... sense of urgency because Jenny is his cousin's daughter. Ben's been living like a monk in the small town of Sandy Lake for almost two years, battling to keep his private life private while moving up the ranks of the sheriff's department. But the more he works this case, the more he's forced to unveil his own secrets, and in turn the dark pasts of the people he's sworn to serve"--

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Subjects
Genres
Mystery fiction
Detective and mystery fiction
Novels
Fiction
Published
Naperville, Illinois : Poisoned Pen Press 2022.
Language
English
Main Author
Joshua Moehling (author)
Physical Description
312 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN
9781728247892
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Moehling trods well-traveled ground in his lackluster debut set in Sandy Lake, Minn. Teens Jesse Crawford and Jenny Wheeler hope to score prescription painkillers by burglarizing the home of an old man they expected to be unconscious at 4:30 a.m. But the man, Emmett Burr, catches them and guns down Jesse and seriously wounds Jenny. Burr, who has created a room in his basement to hold women he's abducted before, confines Jenny there. The girl's disappearance alarms her mother, who contacts a cousin of hers, Ben Packard, the acting county sheriff. The story alternates between Packard's investigation and Jenny's peril, as she's threatened both by a creepy partner of her captor who raped his previous abductees and looming insulin shock. Packard's backstory--his male lover, a fellow cop, was killed on the job--and his current efforts to find solace with another man don't add anything to the by-the-numbers plot, and the characters come across more as types than people. Other writers have done a better job with the same setup. Agent: Barbara Poelle, Irene Goodman Agency. (June)

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