Sarah Stewart Taylor is the author of the Sweeney St. George series and the Maggie D'arcy series. The first Maggie D'arcy mystery, The Mountains Wild, was on numerous Best of the Year lists and was a Library Journal Pick of the Month. The fourth Maggie D'arcy mystery, A Stolen Child, was released in June, 2023.
[The Page 69 Test: The Mountains Wild; The Page 69 Test: A Distant Grave; Q&A with Sarah Stewart Taylor; The Page 69 Test: The Drowning Sea]
At CrimeReads the author tagged nine of "the richest and most chilling crime stories and novels about the disappearances of young children," including:
Rose Gold by Walter MosleyRead about the other entries on the list.
The central missing person in Mosley’s thirteenth Easy Rawlins mystery is actually a college student named Rosemary Goldsmith, the daughter of a weapons manufacturer. But in a strikingly affecting subplot, Mosley also tracks down a five-year-old boy abducted while his mother grieves her dead husband. Mosley’s depiction of the mother’s exhausted terror is especially well-done, and the answers he finds strike a satisfying note.
--Marshal Zeringue
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