A Matter of Chance

Author(s): Julie Maloney

Location(s): Bavaria, New Jersey, New York City (NYC)

Genre(s): Psychological Thriller

Era(s): Contemporary

When eight-year-old Vinni Stewart disappears from a Jersey shore town, her distraught single mother begins a desperate search. Maddy Stewart’s five-year journey leads her to a bakery in Brooklyn where she stumbles upon something terrifying. Ultimately, her artist neighbor Evelyn reconnects Maddy to her passion for painting and guides her to a life transformed through art. Her life-threatening adventure brings her to the idyllic countryside of Bavaria in Germany. How could anything bad happen in such a beautiful place?Detective John D’Orfini sees more than a kidnapping in the plot-thickening twists of chance surrounding Vinni’s disappearance but his warnings to stay away from the investigation do not deter Maddy even when her search puts her in danger. When the Russian Mafia warns her to stop sniffing into their business, Maddy must make a choice whether to save one child—even if it jeopardizes saving her own.

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