THE BOY IN THE PHOTO

NICOLE TROPE

The Boy in the Photo by prolific and imaginative author Nicole Trope is a story that never lets up. The plot, characters, and dialog grab the reader, and the only way to escape is to finish this beguiling and thrilling psycho-drama as soon as possible.

A mother does what mothers do: she takes her son to school. When the school day ends, she returns to pick him up, but he is not there. He has disappeared, seemingly out of thin air. She supposes that her unstable former husband has picked up their son. Many years pass, and the mother has remarried a police detective. One day, he calls his wife, telling her that her son has entered the police station. Six years have passed, and her son is twelve years old. But bitter, hateful, and full of loathing. What happened to the child is revealed slowly, as seen by the boy and his mother. The Boy in the Photo is a hard-hitting, novel of what can go wrong when parents put themselves ahead of their children.