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A Backward Blessing

A Backward Blessing

Author(s): Libby Young

Location(s): Cape Town

Genre(s): Crime

Era(s): Modern

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Struggling with its past, Cape Town is a city of shifting allegiances. A place where children go missing and remain gone. Law and order is an interesting concept in the Mother City but not a helpful one. Living on the edge emotionally, rogue investigator Ray Blessing must face her own tragedy as she searches for six missing children, hoping to find part of herself in the process.

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Libby Young’s character, Ray Blessing, is looking into the disappearance of a child from a shopping mall in Cape Town. More disappearances come to light. A very tight novel, gripping, and really portrays glimpses...

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