Finders Keepers - Hardcover

Nickolae, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070465037 ISBN 13: 9780070465039

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1989

Synopsis

An open-and-shut case involving intinerant artist Shannon Buchanan, convicted of kidnapping a small child, is reopened by the persistent interest of investigator Phil Tewkes

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Nickolae's first novel displays ingenuity in its plot, about a stolen child, and daring in its lighthearted treatment. Gypsy-like traveling artist Shannon Buchanan (aka Valeria Valentine, Summer Knight et al.) is arrested in Monterey, Calif., for abducting Mandy, aged two and one half, a year previously. Both Shannon and an incredibly mature Mandy claim they are mother and daughter, but Inspector Phil Tewkes gives the little girl to the parents who rejoice at the return of their Suzy. Or is she? Tewkes's uncertainties about the case increase along with his romantic feelings toward Shannon, motivating him to a far-ranging investigation of the woman's checkered past as well as of Mandy's alleged birth record. The twisting plot and seesaw incidents generate a suspense resolved in rather facile fashion, given the terrible reality of lost or threatened children.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

California police accuse itinerant artist Shannon Buchanan of kidnapping young Mandy (a cute tyke who calls her mother Shannon), and before she knows it, they plop Shannon in jail and "reunite" Mandy with her anxious "real" parents. One good-hearted cop, though, who believes Shannon's story that Mandy is her daughter, starts investigating on his own, uncovers the truth, unmasks a murderer, saves the day, etc., etc. An overly simplified plot, then, and not without moments of hokum, but a harmlessly pleasant first novel.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0070465037
• ISBN 13: 9780070465039
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200