No Place of Safety: A Crime Novel

Fifteen-year-old Katy Bourne and sixteen-year-old Alan Coughlan are missing. Though they are students at the same school, they hardly know each other, so its strange that they should disappear together. Katys mother, self-centered and unloving, doesnt mind if her daughter never comes home. Alans solid working-class parents are pained and puzzled by their sons departure. <P>Theres not much the police can do about runaway teenagers, but Detective Constable Charlie Peace goes through the motions. He interviews the families, he visits the school. Alan had friends and had aspired to a good education. Katy had nothing, least of all self-esteem. <P>The two teens could be anywhere, even living dangerously on the streets of Leeds, so its with relief that Charlie discovers them in a hostel for homeless young people. But are they safe? And who is Ben Marchant, the man who runs the shelter? <P>Whoever he is, he seems to be doing well. Young people beg or work as street musicians during the day, then eat and sleep at the hostel at night. They can remain there two weeks and then must leave for two weeks before beginning the cycle again. Only

Author: Robert Barnard

Language: English

Edition: First Edition

Binding: Hardcover

Pages: 192

Publisher: Scribner

Publication Date: 1998-05-04