Child Not Found: A Tucker Mystery

At the start of Daniel’s enjoyable if complex third book of murder and mayhem with a Boston accent (after 2015’s Corrupted Memory), computer programmer Aloysius Tucker takes his cousin Sal’s nine-year-old daughter, Maria, sledding on Boston Common, where Maria is kidnapped. Sal, a Mafia don, is arrested and the strangled body of Sal’s wife, Sofia, is found at their home. Tucker tries to concentrate on finding Maria, since neither the police nor the FBI seems interested. Meanwhile, some of Sal’s men think Tucker has turned against Sal, so they’re trying to kill him; others are trying to take over the organization and are trying to kill him just in case. And the mysterious David Anderson, who either owns or doesn’t own Internet startup PassHack, either has or doesn’t have Maria, and is either trying to kill everyone or is totally uninvolved. Things only get worse before the satisfying whirlwind of a resolution. Agent: Eric Ruben, Ruben Agency. (June)