Mary Higgins Clark.
Where are the Children?.
Fontana. 1975
The children have disappeared and the police suspect their mother.
What is her terrible secret?
Is that maternal smile really a child-killer’s mask?
And who is the stranger in the town,
that prowler in the quiet woods?
Muffled noises reach us through the pounding of our hearts – sounds of panting, sly giggles, and the shrill cries of children. We are in a nightmare world, gripping, inescapable, real. And there in the midst of it must be the children.