One Boy Missing

Author(s): Stephen Orr

Crime

It was a butcher on smoko who reported the man stashing the kid in the car boot. He didn't really know whether he'd seen anything at all, though. Maybe an abduction? Maybe just a stressed-out father. Detective Bart Moy, newly returned to the country town where his ailing, cantankerous father still lives, finds nothing. As far as he can tell no one in Guilderton is missing a small boy. Still, he looks deeper into the butcher's story-after all, he had a son of his own once. But when the boy does turn up, silent, apparently traumatised, things are no clearer. Who is he? Where did he come from and what happened to him? For Moy, gaining the boy's trust becomes central not just to the case but to rebuilding his own life. From the wreckage of his grief, his dead marriage and his fractured relationship with his father may yet come a chance for something new. A mystery, a meditation on fatherhood, a harrowing examination of love and loss: a new departure in literary crime from Stephen Orr.

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* Widespread review coverage in broadsheet and tabloid newspapers across ANZ including Age, Dominion Post, NZ Herald, Herald Sun and Adelaide Advertiser * Widespread review coverage in literary publications such as Australian Book Review * Widespread review coverage in crime publications and blogs * Author to be interviewed in tabloid newspapers such as Adelaide Advertiser and West Australian * Extract to appear in magazines such as the Adelaide Review * Author to be interviewed on national and local radio programs such as ABC RN's Books and Arts Daily and ABC 891 * Advanced reading copies available to the trade * Lightwall advertising in major airports * Advertisements in literary and current affairs publications such as ABR and The Monthly, and on their associated websites * Promotions and giveaways with targeted subscriber groups, including book lovers such as Good Reading * Advertisements in bookseller newsletters and catalogues * Banner advertising on bookseller websites * Feature title in Text newsletters and website

'In One Boy Missing, [Orr] realises the slow rhythms of country Australia, its language and landscape...skilfully...It is great holiday reading, whether at home or abroad.' Australian Bookseller & Publisher 'Eloquent, unusual, bold.' Sydney Morning Herald on Time's Long Ruin 'An intelligent, beautifully wrought novel.' Australian Book Review on Dissonance

Stephen Orr is the author of several published works of fiction and non-fiction. His novel Time's Long Ruin was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in 2011. He lives in Adelaide.

General Fields

  • : 9781922147271
  • : Text Publishing Co
  • : The Text Publishing Company
  • : 382.0
  • : January 2014
  • : Australia
  • : February 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : FF
  • : 288
  • : 214
  • : Paperback
  • : Stephen Orr