{"id":1,"date":"2015-04-26T20:50:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T20:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liamhennesce.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2015-06-05T22:52:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T22:52:46","slug":"the-boy-who-disappeared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.liamhennesce.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/26\/the-boy-who-disappeared\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boy Who Disappeared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5\" src=\"http:\/\/liamhennesce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/liam-hennesce-twitteravatar.jpg\" alt=\"Author Liam Hennesce\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.liamhennesce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/liam-hennesce-twitteravatar.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.liamhennesce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/liam-hennesce-twitteravatar-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">August 1963: A schoolboy goes missing after completing his early morning paper round in a quiet English country village.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Keen birdwatcher Thomas doesn\u2019t particularly like school and he doesn\u2019t have many friends. Why would he run away? Why would anyone take him? What has happened to him?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Having failed to establish any motive for 13-year-old Thomas Watson\u2019s disappearance, police are looking for a gypsy traveller who was in the area at the time. They have no other leads to go on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thomas\u2019s parents are desperate to have their son returned home safe and well and due to the lack of progress made by the police have asked private detective Scarlett to investigate. His enquiries lead him into a dark and sinister world, where no-one can be trusted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Boy Who Disappeared<br \/>\n<\/strong> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o88PUEqG-X0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Launched May 2015!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Buy The Boy Who Disappeared &#8211; Amazon.co.uk<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/ebooks\/dp\/B00XWDKAB6\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/ebooks\/dp\/B00XWDKAB6<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Buy The Boy Who Disappeared &#8211; Amazon.com\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Boy-Who-Disappeared-Liam-Hennesce-ebook\/dp\/B00XWDKAB6\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Boy-Who-Disappeared-Liam-Hennesce-ebook\/dp\/B00XWDKAB6\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>REVIEWS<\/h2>\n<p><em>&#8220;Liam Henneske has written a wonderfully dark and unexpected tale of crime and secrecy in the innocent-looking England of 1963. Nothing is what it seems in this gripping account of parental anguish and a literally lost youth.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Alan Franks:\u00a0<\/strong>An award-winning author, musician and journalist with many plays, records and poems to his name.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alanfranks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.alanfranks.com<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>With its short sentences on par with the writing of Hemingway or Fleming, &#8216;The Boy Who Disappeared&#8221; is one of the best debuts in the Suspense Genre since Ira Levin&#8217;s &#8220;A Kiss Before Dying&#8221;, made even more compelling by the fact that the ground of the Novella is based on true events<\/em>.&#8221; <strong>Danny Reyntiens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Everyone likes a good who-dunnit mystery. But the better ones also explore the why as well as the\u00a0who in fictional crime, and Liam Hennesce\u2019s debut novel The Boy Who Disappeared scores highly in\u00a0each department.<\/p>\n<p>It starts like a straightforward case for private investigator Scarlett (a mystery in himself, as we\u2019re\u00a0never told if that\u2019s his first or second name) but develops into a plot with more twists than a game of\u00a0pontoon. Too many clues would give the game away, but enticingly both the Great Train Robbery\u00a0and the Phantom of the Opera make appearances.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an easy read with a good sense of narrative, and cracks along at a steady pace, the antithesis\u00a0perhaps to another private investigator, Robert Galbraith\u2019s Cormoran Strike, whose stories \u2013 while\u00a0classics \u2013 meander far and ponder slowly. Scarlett is less complex, more empathetic, than Strike, but\u00a0he\u2019s a fully formed, three dimensional character nontheless.<\/p>\n<p>But one of the really striking features of this story is the period authenticity. It\u2019s set in the early\u00a01960s and while for some this will be a nostalgia-fest, for younger readers it will bring astonishment\u00a0that petrol could be four shillings a gallon. Indeed, what, they might ask, is a shilling?<\/p>\n<p>This is the era when people drove Minis and scootered around town on Vespas, when they bought\u00a0bicycles from the Littlewoods catalogue, and when they had to find a phone box \u2013 and pennies in\u00a0change \u2013 to make a call. In terms of historical veracity, this is no less fascinating than the days of\u00a0Sherlock Holmes.<\/p>\n<p>Scarlett happily survives several near-miss adventures. Let\u2019s hope this means he\u2019s hanging around\u00a0for a sequel, or even a series.\u00a0Star rating: 4\/5<br \/>\n<strong>Eileen Jones<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">email <\/span><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"mailto:liamhennesce@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">liamhennesce@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>May 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 1963: A schoolboy goes missing after completing his early morning paper round in a quiet English country village. Keen birdwatcher Thomas doesn\u2019t particularly like school and he doesn\u2019t have many friends. Why would he run away? Why would anyone take him? What has happened to him? 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