Member Reviews
Rosemary S, Librarian
It was the 1980’s, a time before the internet and cell phones and DNA. In other words it was a criminal’s heyday. The events in this story are based on real cases in Des Moines, cases where paperboys were kidnapped. Crystal Cox is a high school senior and wants to leave her small town; when Christopher Stewart disappears from his paper route, she believes that the story could be good enough to win her a college scholarship. Told through different voices, this is a story of a middle America gripped by fear in a more “innocent” time
