FOUND

Ten years after the drowning death of her daughter in the Colorado, Eleanor Clay subsists
finding corpses for Bristlecone Springs PD, until the day she finds three-year-old Lizzie, living but left-for-dead in a culvert under the railroad tracks.

There is plot, and then there is story. In FOUND by Irene Cooper, the parameters of the crime novel provide a map through which characters encroach upon one another’s territories and disturb the ground. Plot pushes Eleanor out of her dark apartment and compels her to face the violence others read about, and sometimes, even unwittingly, perpetrate. Like Eleanor, we look for a villain, quietly suspecting trouble is closer than imagined—maybe, if we admit it, within ourselves.