Learning to swim : a novel / Sara J. Henry.
If I'd blinked, I would have missed it. But I didn't, and I saw something fall from the rear deck of the opposite ferry: a small, wide-eyed human face, in one tiny frozen moment, as it plummeted toward the water When she witnesses a small child tumbling from a ferry into Lake Champlain, Troy Chance dives in without thinking. Harrowing moments later, she bobs to the surface, pulling a terrified little boy with her. As the ferry disappears into the distance, she begins a bone-chilling swim nearly a mile to shore with a tiny passenger on her back. Surprisingly, he speaks only French. He'll acknowledge that his name is Paul; otherwise, he's resolutely mute.Troy assumes that Paul's frantic parents will be in touch with the police or the press. But what follows is a shocking and deafening silence. And Troy, a freelance writer, finds herself as fiercely determined to protect Paul as she is to find out what happened to him. What she uncovers will take her into a world of wealth and privilege and heedless self-indulgence ;a world in which the murder of a child is not unthinkable. She'll need skill and courage to survive and protect her charge and herself.
Record details
- ISBN: 0307718387
- ISBN: 9780307718389
- ISBN: 9780307718396
- Physical Description: 289 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, [2011]
- Copyright: ©2011
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| Subject: | Boys > Crimes against > Fiction. Women journalists > Fiction. Boys. |
| Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. |
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| Statesville Main Library | F HENRY (Text) | 33114016993933 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Avery County Morrison Public Library | FIC HEN (Text) | 31111002527784 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Cleveland County Main Library | F HENRY (Text) | 22281500036901 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Eden Library | Fic (Text) | 31554009171850 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Forsyth Central | FIC Henry, Sara (Text) | 0112518402287 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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| Harnett County Main Library | F Hen (Text) | 33630004184920 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Henderson Main Branch | HEN (Text) | 33258006724780 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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| Lee County Main Library | F/HENRY (Text) | 33262003059711 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 05/12/2025 |
Summary:
If I'd blinked, I would have missed it. But I didn't, and I saw something fall from the rear deck of the opposite ferry: a small, wide-eyed human face, in one tiny frozen moment, as it plummeted toward the water When she witnesses a small child tumbling from a ferry into Lake Champlain, Troy Chance dives in without thinking. Harrowing moments later, she bobs to the surface, pulling a terrified little boy with her. As the ferry disappears into the distance, she begins a bone-chilling swim nearly a mile to shore with a tiny passenger on her back. Surprisingly, he speaks only French. He'll acknowledge that his name is Paul; otherwise, he's resolutely mute.Troy assumes that Paul's frantic parents will be in touch with the police or the press. But what follows is a shocking and deafening silence. And Troy, a freelance writer, finds herself as fiercely determined to protect Paul as she is to find out what happened to him. What she uncovers will take her into a world of wealth and privilege and heedless self-indulgence ;a world in which the murder of a child is not unthinkable. She'll need skill and courage to survive and protect her charge and herself.
