Knocknaree

Knocknaree is the village where Rob lived until he was 12 years old. He and his friends were playing in the woods near Knocknaree when Jamie and Peter disappeared. Rob was found by police, but he was so scared he was almost catatonic. Rob returned to Knocknaree more than 20 years later when he was a detective in a murder case. A girl, Katy, was murdered in almost the same place where Jamie and Peter disappeared. Rob spent a good deal of time in Knocknaree investigating Katy’s murder. While he was there, he began having memories about the summer that Jamie and Peter disappeared. He spent the night in the Knocknaree woods hoping to remember what happened to them, but he panicked. At the end of the novel, Rob watches as the last bit of the Knocknaree woods are destroyed. He had never realized before that time how beautiful...