A resourceful runaway alone in the wilds of Los Angeles, twelve-year-old Billy Straight suddenly witnesses a brutal stabbing in Griffith Park. Fleeing into the night, Billy cannot shake the horrific memory of the savage violence, nor the pursuit of a cold-blooded killer. For wherever Billy turns--from Hollywood Boulevard to the boardwalks of Venice--he is haunted by the chuck chuck sound of a knife sinking into flesh. As LAPD homicide detective Petra Connor desperately searches for the murderer, as the media swarms mercilessly around the story, the vicious madman stalks closer to his prey. Only Petra can save Billy. But it will take all her cunning to uncover a child lost in a fierce urban labyrinth--where a killer seems right at home.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
OverDrive, Inc.
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OverDrive, Inc.
Stock Number
097314B7-8ABF-4197-8A28-7C7866C269BA
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Billy Straight.
International Standard Book Number
9780679459590
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Delaware, Alex
Delaware, Alex
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Child witnesses, Fiction.
Connor, Petra (Fictitious character), Fiction.
Murder-- Investigation, Fiction.
Murder, Fiction.
Police, Fiction.
Psychologists, Fiction.
Street children-- California-- Los Angeles, Fiction.