cover image Mourning the Little Dead

Mourning the Little Dead

Jane Adams. Severn House Publishers, $25.99 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-7278-5855-9

When 12-year-old schoolgirl Helen Jones goes missing, it takes 23 years before a confession in a sealed envelope gives a clue to her fate in Jane A. Adams's (The Greenway) stark thriller, Mourning the Little Dead. It's up to Helen's best friend, Naomi Blake, now blind and an ex-policewoman, to ferret out the truth, aided by Helen's brother.