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A Thankless Child

by Penny Deacon
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Follow-up to A Kind of Puritan, Penny Deacon's acclaimed futurecrime novel: Humility's back at Midway Port and ruthless patriarch Morgan Vinci wants her to find out why a man's hanged himself on board one of the boats in his new marina. Just to complicate things, Humility's mother wants her to track down a thirteen-year-old runaway. But how do you find one child when the city streets are full of homeless kids? Especially when they're terrified of whatever is coming out of the night and making their friends disappear. When the missing children are linked to the hanged man's ferry company, his suicide needs a closer look. Humility quickly learns that good intentions count for nothing in a world where good wine is laced with poison, girl gangs will kill you if you step into their territory and nightmares are terrifyingly real.

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Publisher: Creative Content Ltd

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  • ISBN: 9781906790882
  • Release date: August 30, 2011

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  • ISBN: 9781906790882
  • File size: 991 KB
  • Release date: August 30, 2011

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Fiction Mystery Science Fiction Thriller

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Follow-up to A Kind of Puritan, Penny Deacon's acclaimed futurecrime novel: Humility's back at Midway Port and ruthless patriarch Morgan Vinci wants her to find out why a man's hanged himself on board one of the boats in his new marina. Just to complicate things, Humility's mother wants her to track down a thirteen-year-old runaway. But how do you find one child when the city streets are full of homeless kids? Especially when they're terrified of whatever is coming out of the night and making their friends disappear. When the missing children are linked to the hanged man's ferry company, his suicide needs a closer look. Humility quickly learns that good intentions count for nothing in a world where good wine is laced with poison, girl gangs will kill you if you step into their territory and nightmares are terrifyingly real.

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Fiction Mystery Science Fiction Thriller