The Girl Without a Name: From the Files of the St. Louis Police Homicide Division (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798189673139)

Thirty years ago, the body of a young girl was discovered in the basement of an abandoned St. Louis house. Her hands had been bound, her head was missing, and every clue to her identity appeared to have been deliberately erased.

With no name, no face, and no family stepping forward to claim her, the child became known only as the Bluebird Girl. Despite an exhaustive investigation, the case eventually went cold, leaving behind a grave marked "Unknown Child" and a question that haunted the detectives who had failed to answer it:

Who was she?

When the child's remains are exhumed three decades later, advances in DNA technology offer Detective Sergeant Mick Callahan and Detective Darius Coleman a chance to uncover the truth. What begins as an effort to restore a murdered child's identity soon develops into something far more dangerous.

Their investigation leads from St. Louis to Tennessee and into the lives of people who have spent thirty years protecting their secrets. An abusive former boyfriend, a wealthy developer with carefully guarded connections, a missing mother, an unidentified driver, and a former employee carrying the weight of the past all become part of an increasingly complicated mystery.

Nearly everyone has an explanation.

Several have something to hide.

And more than one person is lying.

As Callahan and Coleman reconstruct the child's final days, they discover missing records, altered stories, forgotten evidence, and a single drop of blood preserved for decades. But identifying the girl is only the beginning. To bring her killer to justice, they must determine who transported her to St. Louis, what happened to her mother, and why someone went to such horrifying lengths to make certain the child could never be recognized.

The killer believed that a girl without a face would remain a girl without a name.

Thirty years later, the evidence is ready to speak.

The Girl Without a Name is a gripping St. Louis homicide mystery about forgotten victims, buried secrets, and two determined detectives who refuse to let the dead remain unknown.