The Girls Are Missing — Caroline Crane

AN IDYLLIC SUBURBAN LANDSCAPE BECOMES THE BREEDING GROUND OF A MOTHER'S NIGHTMARE

Joyce Gillwood had fled the violence and danger of the city. With her husband Carl, her nine-year-old daughter Gail, and her newborn baby, she had moved to the safe suburbs. Everything matched her fondest dreams -- until she heard the news of the hideously mutilated corpses if little girls found in the neighborhood, and she began to wonder where little Gail and her newfound playmate had gone to…