Billy Straight
a novel
by Jonathan Kellerman
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A resourceful runaway alone in the wilds of Los Angeles, twelve-year-old Billy Straight suddenly witnesses a brutal stabbing in Griffith Park. Fleeing into the night, Billy cannot shake the horrific memory of the savage violence, nor the pursuit of a cold-blooded killer. For wherever Billy turns--from Hollywood Boulevard to the boardwalks of Venice--he is haunted by the chuck chuck sound of a knife sinking into flesh. As LAPD homicide detective Petra Connor desperately searches for the murderer, as the media swarms mercilessly around the story, the vicious madman stalks closer to his prey. Only Petra can save Billy. But it will take all her cunning to uncover a child lost in a fierce urban labyrinth--where a killer seems right at home. . . .From the Paperback edition.
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Fiction, Street children, Street children in fiction, Alex Delaware (Fictitious character), Petra Connor (Fictitious character), Child witnesses, Child witnesses in fiction, Psychologists, Psychologists in fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Runaway children, Women detectives, Murder, Investigation, Serial murderers, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, psychological, Delaware, alex (fictitious character), fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Sturgis, milo (fictitious character), fiction, Homicide, Psychologues, Romans, nouvelles, Enfants de la rue, Enfants témoins, PolicePlaces
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Billy Straight: a novel
1999, Ballantine House
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Billy Straight: a novel
1998, Random House Large Print
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"IN THE PARK YOU SEE THINGS."
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