Excerpt: What Happened to Julia?

Today was the one year anniversary. Rachel Freeman went to the cemetery by herself; her husband had committed suicide exactly six months before. She laid a bouquet of daisies, Julia’s favorite flowers, in front of the gravestone which bore the names of her husband, Jack and their only child, Julia.
One year before, she and her husband, Jack, had been awakened on a cold Wednesday morning in late January by a knock at the door which started the worst day of their lives. When they opened the door, two detectives from the local police department were standing on the porch. They asked if they could come in and both Jack and Rachel’s hearts sank. Their only daughter had been missing for three days and the looks on the detectives’ faces indicated that the information they were about to receive was not going to be good.
The two detectives followed Rachel and Jack to the living room and sat down. Detective Feeney took a deep breath and said, “We’re here because we have an update on your daughter’s missing person case.”