Gone the Next is the first in the Roy Ballard series by Ben Rehder. It's free right now at Amazon US, not sure why or for how long.
This title is also contained in the
Die Laughing 2: Five More Comic Crime Novels box set, which has been a US Kindle Countdown $0.99 deal in the past, so if you have that, you don't need this. But WTH - it's free, and you don't have to separate the box set for this one...
link:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009GPICOQ/
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Edgar Award finalist Ben Rehder's novels have made best-of-the-year lists in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, and Field & Stream.
GONE THE NEXT is the first novel in the Roy Ballard mystery series.
About GONE THE NEXT:
Meet Roy Ballard, freelance videographer with a knack for catching insurance cheats. He's working a routine case, complete with hours of tedious surveillance, when he sees something that shakes him to the core. There, with the subject, is a little blond girl wearing a pink top and denim shorts—the same outfit worn by Tracy Turner, a six-year-old abducted the day before. When the police are skeptical of Ballard's report—and with his history, who can blame them?—it's the beginning of the most important case of his life.
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