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After promising a distraught mother he'd find her missing children, Detective Vince O'Mally discovers their mutilated corpses in an abandoned house. Tormented by images of the horrific crime scene, Vince is forced to quit the case by his superiors and take a vacation. Instead, Vince heads to Dilmun, a small town in upstate New York, to follow up a seemingly insignificant lead. At the town's tiny police department, Vince meets Holly Newman, a pretty but troubled woman who has never recovered from losing her own sister to a child killer more than twenty years ago. Convinced the cases are connected, Vince pushes Holly to recall long buried memories; in the process, he falls in love with her. With a killer on their trail and another child's abduction augmenting their sense of urgency, Holly and Vince team up with the local police and the FBI to track down the killer.

Children's book 'the gingerbread man' checked out of the library in 1983 and never returned but years later shows up at a murder crime scene and leads the detective back to murders commited over the years.

Easy read for a rainy day.

This is your typical Maggie Shayne book, TERRIFIC!! I was so shocked at the ending of this story, it blew me away! Not at all who I expected at the end. Maggie Shayne is an excellent writer. I cannot wait for her to write another murder mystery type of book. She writes some great vamp books too.

Liked this one alot. Lots of twists and turns and was a true page turner. The Gingerbread Man is about missing children and of course a detective is looking for them. Without giving to much away the book The Gingerbread Man is found with them. Thus the chase starts. The ending was a big "POW", knock you off the chair ending, not at all what you'd think, i loved being this surprised. You will never see it coming.

Great book, could not put it down. Keeps you guessing.

Great book! A couple of mysteries going at the same time. A little bit of romance! The culprit took me by surprise!