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The Harvest Girl
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ISBN13: 9781744473183
Publisher: Adair Fennimore
Published: Oct 7 2026
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A nine-year-old vanishes from a Vermont harvest festival - and the scene left behind is an exact copy of an abduction nobody solved twenty-two years ago.
Corbett Falls, Vermont. Four thousand people, eleven acres of corn, and one green rain jacket that nobody sees again. When Etta Prewitt-Sayles walks out of a craft stall at 4:41 on the first Saturday in October, she has twenty-one minutes before anyone notices she is gone.
FBI Behavioral Analysis agent Del Marchetti arrives at two in the morning to a scene that should not exist. A shoe placed square on the third step of a stile. A hair elastic in the corn. A cornhusk doll standing upright, facing back the way it came. An orange ribbon tied to the rail in a bow, knotted left over right.
Every detail matches the disappearance of nine-year-old Nell Coombs from the same field in 2003 - including three details that were never released, and one that was quietly removed from the police file by the FBI agent who closed that case wrong.
Del has seventy-two hours, a local chief who has been waiting twenty-two years for someone federal to listen, and a town that would rather not be asked what it agreed to believe.
WHAT'S INSIDE
- A hour-stamped first seventy-two hours, from Hour Zero to the recovery
- Real procedural texture: victimology, timeline boards, canvass photography, interview transcripts
- A cold case reopened, a wrongful conviction unmade, and a town clerk's locked second drawer
- A genuinely fair-play solution - every clue is on the page before the answer is
- A child recovered alive, no graphic violence, and no on-page cruelty
- A series-launch ending with one thread deliberately left open
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