The Boy from the Woods

Thirty years ago, a boy was found living wild in the woods, with no memory of how he got there or who he belonged to. Wilde is an adult now, and he still has no answers about his past. A teenager named Naomi Pine has vanished, and almost nobody around her treats it as serious.

The exception is Hester Crimstein, a criminal attorney who appears on television. Her grandson has told her that Naomi was bullied at school without letup. Hester shares a tragic connection with Wilde, and she asks him to put his unusual skills to work on the search.

Wilde finds it hard to turn away from an outcast in trouble. Finding Naomi means going back into the community where he has never belonged. There, influential people are shielded by their position, and some of them keep secrets large enough to ruin the lives of millions.

This is a mystery with a missing-child case at its centre and a loner for a detective. The pressure comes from the clock: Wilde has to dig up what the powerful are hiding before it is too late for Naomi.