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Zoe Webster’s family breakup forces her from Brooklyn to a quiet upstate New York town, where she meets the enigmatic Philip Digby. Philip’s quirky charm pulls Zoe into a web of humor and danger as they pursue a missing‑teen case that may be tied to his sister’s disappearance eight years earlier.
First publish date: 2015
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Cozy Mystery
Authors: Stephanie Tromly
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