Found, Near Water (A Christchurch Crime Thriller Book 1)

Found, Near Water (A Christchurch Crime Thriller Book 1)

Rena Sutherland wakes from a coma into a mother€s nightmare. Her daughter is missing €“ lost for four days €“ but no one has noticed; no one has complained; no one has been searching. <br /> <br />As the victim support officer assigned to her case, Christine Emmett puts aside her own problems as she tries to guide Rena through the maelstrom of her daughter€s disappearance. <br /> <br />A task made harder by an ex-husband desperate for control; a paedophile on early-release in the community; and a psychic who knows more than seems possible. <br /> <br />And intertwined throughout, the stories of six women; six daughters lost. <br /> <br /><i>I thought that not knowing was the worst thing I could ever endure. Not knowing if she was in trouble or needing my help or in pain. I worried that she€d been taken by someone that would hurt her, then I worried that she€d been taken by someone who would love her and care for her and in a year or two she€d have forgotten I ever existed. Not knowing was killing me. <br /> <br />The police found her body stuffed into an old recycling bin out the back of a sleep-out. My beautiful girl had been bent to fit as though she was just a piece of rubbish, something to be disposed of. <br /> <br />When I went to the hospital to identify my beautiful girl€s broken body - that was worse than not knowing. When I buried her in the cemetery and compared the size of the gravesite to the other freshly buried bodies - that was worse than not knowing. When I drank myself to sleep on the anniversary of her sixth birthday, and realised that I would likely be doing that until my life ended - that was worse than not knowing.</i> <br /> <br /> <br />