Innocent monster

By Reed Farrel Coleman

Subjects: Missing children, Child artists, Fiction, Moe Prager (Fictitious character), Private investigators

Description: Seven years have passed since the brutal murder that tore Moe Prager's family apart, when his estranged daughter Sarah comes to him with a request he cannot refuse. Sashi Bluntstone, an eleven-year-old art prodigy and daughter of Sarah's dearest childhood friend, has been abducted. As Moe stumbles around the fringes of the New York art scene, he discovers that suspects abound beyond the usual predators and pedophiles, for it is those closest to Sashi in life that have the most to gain from her death.