{"product_id":"the-monsters-we-make-a-novel","title":"The Monsters We Make: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor fans of Rene Denfeld and Shari Lapena comes a rich  atmospheric family drama set in the 1980s following the disappearances of two paperboys from a small midwestern town.  Its August 1984  and paperboy Christopher Stewart has gone missing.  Hours later  twelve-year-old Sammy Cox hurries home from his own paper route  red-faced and out of breath  hiding a terrible secret.  Crystal  Sammys seventeen-year-old sister  is worried by the disappearance but she also sees opportunity: the Stewart case has echoes of an earlier unsolved disappearance of another boy  one town over. Crystal senses the makings of an award winning essay  one that could win her a scholarship - and a ticket out of their small Iowa town.  Officer Dale Goodkind cant believe his bad luck: another town and another paperboy kidnapping. But this time he vows that it wont go unsolved. As the abductions set in motion an unpredictable chain of violent  devastating events touching each life in unexpected ways  Dale is forced to face his own demons.  Told through interwoven perspectives--and based on the real-life Des Moines Register paperboy kidnappings in the early 1980s--The Monsters We Make deftly explores the effects of one crime exposing another and the secrets people keep hidden from friends  families  and sometimes  even themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44956605677621,"sku":"ByrdShop_1643853880","price":30.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781643853888.jpg?v=1770321445","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-monsters-we-make-a-novel","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}