Half Moon Bay (Clay Edison, #3)

Half Moon Bay by Jonathan Kellerman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The book begins with the discovery of an infant's bones in People's Park when the University of California, Berkeley is attempting to build some dorms on it's land. The discovery halts the construction and Clay is tasked with discovering the infant's identity. The discovery of the infant's bones prompts a phone call from Peter Franchette who believes they may be the bones of his older sister who disappeared 50 years ago. Clay quickly determines through DNA testing that the bones are of a male and that the Father is a convicted White Supremacist Fritz Dormer, Clay notifies him of the discovery and tries to get him to reveal the Mother's name but Fritz claims ignorance (which was actually the truth he had no idea about the baby) so Clay works with Lieutenant Sibley of UCPD to identify the Mother.

Meanwhile on his on time Clay is working on the kidnapping of Margaret (Polly) Franchette. Realizing the babysitter Chrissy's story doesn't add up he request the FBI's files and discovers that one of the detectives also thought Chrissy had something to do with the kidnapping. A post card he sent his wife from Half Moon Bay gives him a location to search for Chrissy and he discovers an all grown up Margaret now known as Audrey Marsh.

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