Typical Rebecca York....which is to say, excellent suspense and a deft avoidance of cliches in the short category format.

A P.I. is hired by a man to find the nanny he accuses of killing his wife & abducting his child. When the P.I. catches up with her, she says it was the father who killed the wife & she took the child to protect him.

Lots of trust issues, and a kid who's not overly cute or precocious, as well as some top-notch suspense. Part of a trilogy, but I haven't gotten to the previous ones yet, and I didn't feel like I'd missed anything. ( )