Death Ride
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- £7.99
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- £7.99
Publisher Description
An unwelcome face from the past at a local fair leads Henry Christie on a white-knuckled race against time to find a missing girl.
On the third day of the Kendleton Country Fair, thirteen-year-old Charlotte Kirkham goes missing. Retired Detective Superintendent Henry Christie is there as a volunteer steward, but Charlotte's sudden disappearance isn't the only thing troubling him. The man with the burger van looks familiar . . . for all the wrong reasons.
Leonard Lennox was jailed for twelve years for abducting a young girl. Henry rescued her, unharmed, and helped put Leonard behind bars. Now he's out, with his own criminal outfit, old scores to settle, and a son who was last seen talking to Charlotte at the fair. Is history about to repeat itself? Henry is soon drawn into another hair-raising, pulse-pounding race against time, and the stakes couldn't be higher. Can he find Charlotte before tragedy strikes?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of Oldham's riveting 30th Henry Christie thriller (after 2022's Demolition), retired police detective Christie, who now runs a combined pub and hotel in the English village of Kendleton and has been "press-ganged" into manning the information booth at the Kendleton Country Fair, approaches a couple arguing near the booth, where parents can inquire about lost children. Stepdad Dave West isn't worried, but his wife, Melinda West, is, because Charlotte Kirkham, Melinda's 13-year-old daughter, is missing and not answering her phone. Melinda's alarm is magnified by her having witnessed a group of rowdy teenage boys harassing her daughter a short time before at the showground. Christie agrees to help and finds that one of the boys is the son of Leonard Lennox, who's operating a food truck at the fair. Christie recalls that, in the early 1990s, he sent Lennox away for 12 years after Lennox abducted an eight-year-old girl in broad daylight. He assists former colleague Det. Sgt. Debbie Blackstone in the search for Charlotte, which proves unexpectedly complicated. Oldham makes Christie's involvement credible while maintaining a nail-biting level of suspense. Despite its age, this series still has plenty of life left.
