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Aurora Teagarden is basking in the news of her pregnancy when disaster strikes her small Georgia town: four kids vanish from the school soccer field in an afternoon. Auroras 15-year-old brother Phillip is one of them. Also gone are two of his friends, and an 11-year-old girl who was just hoping to get a ride home from soccer practice. And then theres an even worse discoveryat the kids last known destination, a dead body.While the local police and sheriffs department comb the county for the missing kids and interview everyone even remotely involved, Aurora and her new husband, true crime writer Robin Crusoe, begin their own investigation. Could the death and kidnappings have anything to do with a group of bullies at the middle school? Is Phillips disappearance related to Auroras fathers gambling debts? Or is Phillip himself, new to town and an unknown quantity, responsible for taking the other children? But regardless of the reason, as the days go by, the most important questions remain. Are the kids still alive? Who could be concealing them? Where could they be?With Christmas approaching, Aurora is determined to find her brotherif hes still alive. After more than a decade, #1 bestseller Charlaine Harris finally returns to her fan-favorite Aurora Teagarden series with , a fabulously fun new mystery.