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Warning: if violence of a sexual nature against children is triggering for you, give this one a pass. It isn't written super explicitly, but it is very obvious and happens multiple times throughout this novel.

An interesting mystery/thriller about a woman named Naomi who specializes in finding missing children. She takes on 2 cases simultaneously - one is a child that has been missing for 3 years, and the other is a child recently missing where the mother has been arrested. While searching for these 2 children, Naomi wrestles with her own childhood trauma and with accepting her present.


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The Child Finder A Novel Rene Denfeld Books Reviews

Cliffhanger no
No. in Series stand alone
Strong language no
Sexual language or actions nothing overt; referenced as background and child abuse
Editing excellent
Proofreading excellent
Age Suggestion young adult
Special warning child abuse, both referred to and actively happening

Naomi, the child finder, remembers only flashback bits of her life before being taken in by a migrant group and brought to the Sheriff. She remembers running, but thinks there is something else, something so important it drives her as an adult to wander, constantly looking for it.

She becomes an investigator in her 20's, demonstrating an affinity for finding missing children. Some are alive, some alive but so traumatized they may never become functional adults, some dead and some never found. She is a sympathetic character; easy to relate to and characterized by a sturdy, steady personality who can be brutally honest when needed.

She has two cases in the same town, and against her usual work method she agrees to take on both; the primary case a 5 year old lost in the snowy forest of Oregon for three years, and secondary a newborn missing for a month.

The story intersperses her memories of foster care and the boy who shared her placement with the present day actions. These tiny memories do not interrupt the flow of the story and provide glimpses of other cases and how she grew up.

Madison, the 5 year old missing for three years has been rescued by a high mountain trapper and is being held in an underground cellar in his ramshackle house. Confused by being lost and then found, she reinvents herself as "snow girl" and tells stories about a little girl named Madison.

The story is almost gentle; no horrific, tortured children missing and then found. She gives gentle advice to parents, urging them to think of their marriage. She keeps in loose contact with children she has found, reminding them to not forget their ordeals and instead embracing the strength that kept them going.

The ending is satisfactory with room for another book if desired. All in all a strong, quiet book about horrific actions.
This is a beautifully written and pretty wonderful novel. The two major characters, one a twenty-something and the other an eight year old, are or have been victims of sexual predators. In very different ways both find the inner strength to survive and to retain an inner core of self. The elder is now a "child finder" while the younger is a taken child. This book is far more a celebration of those who survive than it is an elegy for those who don't.

The child finder has had quite a success rate in the searches for missing, presumably taken, children she has undertaken; and, as a result, she has a growing list of pleading requests from distraught parents begging for her help. She is more successful than law enforcement because of her empathy for the child, the dedication she brings to the search--devoting month after month to the single task-- and her ability (pardon the cliche) to think outside the box. This book is not critical of law enforcement. The example we are given is entirely admirable. But how often is law enforcement allowed to concentrate month after month on a single case? But she will. The book mentions one of her previous successes, the finding of a boy who had been missing for eight years. Only she, of all the law enforcement who have looked for the child, thinks to consult the original blueprints of the school where he was last seen. This is pretty much a definition of thinking outside the box. In the current case she alone among searchers finds the original land grants in the neighborhood of where the child disappears, and she along searches out each of those old, original sites for a place in which a child could be hidden. An earlier reviewer suggested that she had some unexplained arcane ability that explained her success. I disagree; it is an unending patience and a willingness to keep on keeping on which explain her success.

This book obviously tackles very ugly topics--pedophilia and its victims, the victim who grows into a predator himself because he has simply never learned any other way of acting--but it does so with tact; there are no brutal and sickening scenes of child rape here. This is an author who believes her readers know what happens when a sexual predator takes a child. But above all, this is a story of those who survive; and the reader can share in the enormous accomplishment, especially considering the magnitude of what they have survived.

One thought I'd like to add A previous reviewer found the book poorly written. I disagree entirely. The two examples that person quotes are thoughts taken from a person's mind. I think that very few people monitor their thoughts for grammatical accuracy, and I found both examples utterly realistic in term of what a person in that situation might think.

Be that as it may, I thought this a very fine book that I'd recommend to adults without hesitation.
Warning if violence of a sexual nature against children is triggering for you, give this one a pass. It isn't written super explicitly, but it is very obvious and happens multiple times throughout this novel.

An interesting mystery/thriller about a woman named Naomi who specializes in finding missing children. She takes on 2 cases simultaneously - one is a child that has been missing for 3 years, and the other is a child recently missing where the mother has been arrested. While searching for these 2 children, Naomi wrestles with her own childhood trauma and with accepting her present.