The new novel featuring the delightful Ellie Quicke Ellie Quicke, fiftyish and recently widowed, is coping, just, but could do without everyone else coming to her for help. To cap it all, ten-year-old Tod, who lives along the road, has gone missing . . . Ellie is very fond of Tod, and his disappearance shocks her to the core. Before she knows it, she's caught up in a police investigation which casts a shadow over her respectable, close-knit community . . .