Praise for Code of Silence “Deliberate, plausible, and gritty whodunit.” –Booklist Starred Review Praise for Back Before Dark “The climax? You will not have any fingernails left by the final page. –Booklist Taken! A detour through the park leads Cooper, Gordy, Hiro, and Lunk straight into a trap, and Gordy is abducted! The kidnapper, a brilliant high-school student with a bitter agenda, thinks it’s all a big game, but evil has a way of escalating and consuming. Despite the best of police efforts, the hours tick by without a clue or a ransom call, leaving everyone to their own fears. Gordy is gone. Cooper descends deeper into a living nightmare, imagining the worst for his best friend and cousin. Hours stretch into days, and talks of a memorial service begin to surface. But Cooper still feels his cousin is alive and develops a reckless plan, changing all the rules. Now the one who set out to rescue his friend needs to be rescued himself.
The kids find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. It’s every kid’s worst nightmare, when a ride through the park gets Gordy abducted. Their powers of observation are put to the test like never before, as Cooper, Hiro, and Lunk fight the clock to find their friend. In the dark, things are never what they seem.
