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Lost Innocents

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A teenager and the baby she was babysitting disappear. Oh God, nothing could be more scary than that except finding the teenager dead and the baby is still missing.... This book taps the fear every mother in the world has..a child missing. Maddy Blake is the mother of a 3 year old daughter and married to a self centered husband. After getting in a car accident with another car, Maddy felt responsible to help out and invited the victims in the other car to stay at her house. A mother and her 6 month old son stay with Maddy while the mother's husband is still in the hospital. While this is going on other plots are twisting and turning. Maddy's husband gets accused of seducing one of his students and worse the police think he might be a part of the baby and babysitter's kidnapping. All the characters in the book all are related to the storyline and the climax ties together all the stories to make for a good ending.

High school teacher Doug Blake, Maddy's spouse and Amy's father, has been cleared of all charges of sexual misconduct brought by a student. Throughout the ordeal, Maddy stayed by her man because she refused to believe any of the ugly accusations. After a celebration dinner, Maddy is involved in a car accident in which the other driver Terry Lewis is hospitalized. Maddy invites the Lewis family to stay with her to save on expenses.

The local police chief thinks Doug is the killer of a fifteen-year-old girl and kidnapper of a smaller child. Maddy initially thinks it is harassment because the chief's daughter is the student who originally pressed sexual harassment charges against her spouse. However, she begins to wonder if her faith in Doug is false and he could indeed be guily of hitting sexually on his students or something even more horrific(like murder and kidnapping). Patricia MacDonald has written a suspense filled thriller that is similar to the best of Mary Higgins Clark and Barbara Michaels. LOST INNOCENTS is a passionate melodrama loaded with tension and much cleverly deployed misdirection. All readers will come away from this book feeling satisfied with its potent story line, frightened with its reality base, and anxious for Ms. MacDonald's next tale.

Patricia MacDonald has written a suspense filled thriller that is similar to the best of Mary Higgins Clark and Barbara Michaels. LOST INNOCENTS is a passionate melodrama loaded with tension and much cleverly deployed misdirection. All readers will come away from this book feeling satisfied with its potent story line, frightened with its reality base, and anxious for Ms. MacDonald's next tale.

Harriet Klausner

The book does not drag, has a sufficient # of characters without being overwhelming and the plot is not overly complex. I stop short of giving it 5 stars only because of 1 overlooked detail (that of blood without giving too much away). This overlooked detail does not invalidate the suspenseful plot and its resulting finale. This was my first read of this author and I was not at all disappointed. It was also nice to see my home province of Nova Scotia mentioned in the novel.

All of her books are well written and held my interest until the very last page. They are full of suspense, yet very realistic! If your looking for a good book to read on a cold winter night, this is a great choice. I am always waiting patiently for her next book to be published. (K. Misiaszek - East Killingly, CT)

In the genre of the current fascination with the killing, kidnapping, abuse of children, this novel fares better than most. MacDonald keeps it fast-paced, takes only limited space for the maudlin, and throws some focus on sub plots that keep it moving. Decent.

I read Lost Innocents a couple of years back, and I loved it. In my opinion, this is MacDonald's best writing. Her writing grabs you and pulls you into the emotions of the characters. This is a good novel for anyone to read.

THIS BOOK WAS VERY HARD TO PUT DOWN. NEEDLESS TO SAY I DIDN'T GET MUCH HOUSEWORK DONE, WHILE READING THIS BOOK. GREAT, GREAT, GREAT!

This was a great book, like all the many I have read by Patricia MacDonald. The author brings numerous characters into her book and you never can figure out how they can all be brought together until near the end of the book. It's not easy to guess "who done it" which is what I like in a good book.