Dead Reckoning

Lea O’Harra
Works of: Fiction

It’s a hot summer’s day in 1984 when twelve-year-old Gilly and her friend Sally find a dead baby girl in a shoe box hidden in the tall grass of the cemetery of their tiny town. Deciding to keep their discovery a secret, they bury her in Gilly’s yard, with disastrous results. Babies in their strollers are interfered with. Two local children disappear and end up dead. A suspect is arrested and confesses, blaming his crimes on Gilly and Sally for having taken the dead baby. Gilly grow up but is haunted by what’s happened. As a young woman she flees the town and the bad memories it holds for her, going all the way to Japan. Returning with her husband as a women in her late thirties to attend her mother’s funeral, Gilly finds that the past is not past. She’s threatened. Somebody is putting flowers on babies in their strollers again. When another child is abducted, Gilly knows she must discover the truth of what really happened all those years ago before more lives are lost.