What Ever Happened to Eddy Crane? A Memoir and a Murder Investigation

Journalist Crane debuts with a heartrending true crime memoir about her father’s decades-old disappearance. One night in 1987, after Crane’s father, Eddy, called home to say he was about to leave work at the trucking company he co-owned in Baltimore, he vanished. Twenty years later, Crane, then a freelance journalist in New York City dealing with depression and PTSD caused by Eddy’s disappearance and her family’s near-refusal to speak about it, set out to uncover the truth. She returned to Maryland, where her digging turned up disturbing new details about Eddy’s life: his partner at the trucking company had links to organized crime, and Eddy may have been an FBI informant. She also found plenty of evidence that Eddy was murdered, including testimony about bullet holes in his office and a witness confirming that he feared for his life in the days before his disappearance. The thrust of Crane’s account concerns the tepid police response and the Baltimore Cold Case Unit’s continued classification of Eddy as a missing person, rather than a homicide victim. Crane seamlessly blends suspense and pathos as she recounts her investigation. Readers will be rapt. Agent: William LoTurco, LoTurco Literary. (Apr.)