About This Book
A missing teenager. A troubled cold-case sleuth. A twenty-year-old mystery never resolved.
Art Dodger, Savannah-based artist, isn't too impressed at first by the story of Danielle Standridge's disappearance twenty years before. He accepts that she's gone. That someone else caused her absence by no means strikes him as certain. Fifteen-year-old girls do all sorts of odd and unexplained things, then and now. Still, in Dodger's experience, which is considerable, when a girl as good-looking as Danielle manages to stay missing for two decades, it usually doesn't bode well.
As he digs deeper into the past of the North Carolina mill town where Danielle lived, he knows something is definitely wrong. But does it have anything to do with why Danielle's still gone? The wealthy owner of the mill (and the town) thinks so - he's why Dodger is there to investigate. The girl's best friend from high school agrees, and even the sheriff, who briefly dated Danielle, thinks they're right. Just about everyone else, however, including her strangely indifferent family, seems to assume that the girl - smart, pretty, and clearly on her way to greener pastures probably sooner rather than later - simply walked away from a dying town and a personal situation worse than anyone suspected.
The Mystery of the Missing Majorette is the first title in the Art Dodger Case Files Series, in which artist Art Dodger attempts to exorcise his personal demons by solving old mysteries that haunt others as much as the slaughter of his own family haunts him.
Did bright, beautiful Danielle leave of her own accord? Was she kidnapped and murdered? Buy The Mystery of the Missing Majorette today to see the secrets Dodger uncovers beneath the sad surface of an old company town, itself in the process of disappearing.
