Convinced that the new baby-sitters they have found--two middle-aged sisters--are too good to be true, Lucy and Em Grazer leave their newborn with them, but the baby's disappearance soon sends them on the chase of their lives.
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From Publishers Weekly
Turning every new parent's worst nightmare into a plausible thriller proves problematic in this second novel by the authors of the more upbeat Shoofly Pie to Die . Molly and Carlotta are two very bad women who babysit five cute three-month-old babies for 10 harassed and grateful parents. When the kids and sitters vanish, FBI agent Don Tafoya seems powerless to find them. The infants eventually begin to surface as their new adoptive parents, bilked out of $500,000 by Molly and Carlotta, realize they've been duped and give the children back. But one boy doesn't reappear, and his parents, journalists Lucy and Em Grazer, turn for help to Phrank, a mysterious teenage computer hacker. In this trite work, every narrative step seems locked into a very familiar pattern--making the villains occasional lesbians, for example, is a very tired fictional device. The authors are also sloppy technicians: the best character (Phrank) is annoyingly underdeveloped, and one child's death isn't even properly explained. The novel's best moment occurs when Phrank achieves hacker nirvana and boldly takes his computer where no civilian machine has gone before. The rest of the tale belongs firmly in made-for-TV-movieland.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
Five infants have disappeared from their seemingly well-run day nursery on Long Island. Owners Carlotta Sutten and Molly Crater have vanished too. The public outcry quickly brings three of the babies back home--returned by desperate would-be parents who'd paid the missing women huge sums and asked no questions. One child is found dead. Only Nicholas, son of newspaper reporters Em and Lucy Grazer, is left. While the Grazers write heartbreaking columns pleading for their baby's return, and FBI agent Don Tafoya and a horde of police track the fleeing women to Mexico and back--ever losing their prey--another figure enters the picture: Phrank, a juvenile computer hacker whose brilliance and gall know no bounds. Always a step ahead of the legit information seekers, it's Phrank who guides the Grazers and Tafoya to the isolated outskirts of Albuquerque, where the baby's fate rests on the hairspring psyche of a madman. Amply fulfilling the promise of the authors' debut novel (last year's Shoofly Pie to Die): a story in which every character commands attention--and every revelation and twist of plot increases the sense of menace. A dynamic, can't-put-it-down humdinger. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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