'Ilene, a working class mother, is struggling to survive and desperate to reconnect with her children, Jack and Lonnie, in the aftermath of a near fatal tragedy.
'But her children vanish, setting off a chain reaction within the community.
'Suspended detective Omar helps out with the investigation, uncovering disquieting clues, but he keeps getting pulled away by a dangerous cold case.
'Benji, a recovering addict, finds peace by breeding lorikeets and caring for his mother, only to have his clean life upended by a stranger’s menacing threat.
'Nera, a city lawyer grieving on a country farm, wants to find out who killed one of her animals and is faced with increasingly strange and unsettling answers.
'In this gripping tale of human frailty and the otherworldly, each of the characters must confront the mystery of what really happened to Jack and Lonnie.' (Publication summary)
'Zahid Gamieldien’s All the Missing Children has all the makings of an archetypal crime mystery. Two siblings, eight-year-old Jack and six-year-old Lonnie, have disappeared. There’s a detective covertly on the case—suspended police officer Omar Dualeh, who takes matters into his own hands because he’s convinced their vanishing is connected to the abduction of a different pair of siblings several years earlier.' (Introduction)
'Zahid Gamieldien’s All the Missing Children has all the makings of an archetypal crime mystery. Two siblings, eight-year-old Jack and six-year-old Lonnie, have disappeared. There’s a detective covertly on the case—suspended police officer Omar Dualeh, who takes matters into his own hands because he’s convinced their vanishing is connected to the abduction of a different pair of siblings several years earlier.' (Introduction)
