The Hand in the Window

• Elizabeth Young

• Mystery
  
• Paperback ISBN 10: 1-938888-24-3 | ISBN 13: 978-1-938888-24-3


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Jay ended the call without waiting for Emma to reply. He could not bear having to tell her that he thought their son might have been taken again. Maybe this was all a big mix up. Then he realized that he had not seen the sheriff’s car, not on his way back and not since he had been here. Where was it? Maybe one of the deputies had picked Tim up. But wouldn’t Mitch have mentioned that it was a sheriff’s car that Tim got into? It was time to call Sheriff Carlson…

Vic Bartle was talking to himself. It was a habit when he was angry or disturbed. “I should have done something sooner. I should have gotten Goertz out of the way sooner. I knew he was a bad actor back when we did the drug bust.” No telling what the boy might eventually remember…

He was keeping so many secrets—from Louise, from his family. And now someone was going to pay for them. Vic drove carefully. He needed to concentrate on where he was going, but he also needed to decide what to do next…

Jay Berg’s life could have been better. He had recently separated from his wife after losing his job at the factory where they both worked. His wife was now seeing another coworker, Jay was living in an apartment at a friend’s house, and his days consisted of holding a traffic sign at a construction site.

Then Jay saw the hand in the window…

Could Jay make his brother-in-law, Vic Bartle, believe there was something going on at the vacant house near the work site? Would Vic think this was a merely a result of Jay’s drinking? And when Jay’s son went missing, would Jay be able to help solve the mystery of the hand in the window…