Sticks & Stones

Harvest House, 2007

Twenty-five years have passed since children in one St. Paul neighborhood were demeaned, tormented, and made to feel unworthy by a neighborhood bully. With no one to rescue them, they endured years of abuse from a kid named Bucky. His very presence promised pain. Twenty-five years later, Rachael Flynn, a lawyer in the district attorney's office, receives an unsigned letter with the message that a body is about to be uncovered at a local construction site. His death was an accident, but not undeserved, according to the anonymous letter writer.