The Monsters We Make A Novel

Kali White

eBook - 2020

A rich, atmospheric family drama based on the still-unsolved true crime case that launched the infamous missing children ‘milk carton’ campaigns of the 1980s. The disappearance of two paperboys sets off a devastating chain of events that will change their small Midwestern town forever . . . It’s August 1984, and paperboy Christopher Stewart has gone missing. Hours later, 12-year-old Sammy Cox hurries home from his own paper route, red-faced and out of breath, hiding a terrible secret. Crystal, Sammy’s 17-year-old sister, is worried by the disappearance but she also sees opportunity: the Stewart case has echoes of an earlier unsolved disappearance of another boy, one town over. Crystal senses the makings of an award-winning essay,... one that could win her a scholarship—and a ticket out of their small Iowa town. Officer Dale Goodkind can’t believe his bad luck: another town and another paperboy... more