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The Last Child

  • 432 pages · about 7 hours
  • First published 2009
  • 24 editions

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1 About this book

> Thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: a warm home and loving parents; a twin sister, Alyssa, with whom he shared an irreplaceable bond. He knew nothing of loss, until the day Alyssa vanished from the side of a lonely street.

Now, a year later, Johnny finds himself isolated and alone, failed by the people he’d been taught since birth to trust. No one else believes that Alyssa is still alive, but Johnny is certain that she is---confident in a way that he can never fully explain. More.

Good for readers who want: a thriller and a mystery.

  • Thrillers
  • Psychological fiction
  • Mystery
  • Small town life
  • Detectives
  • Twins
  • Missing children
  • Kidnapping

2 About John Hart

Born 1965

John Hart (born 1965) is an American author of thriller novels. His books take place in North Carolina, where he was born and once lived. He presently resides in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a 2012 graduate of Davidson College. His work has been compared to that of Scott Turow and John Grisham. Hart has won two Edgar Allan Poe Awards for Best Novel, one in 2008 for Down River, and the second in 2010 for The Last Child.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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