The Shoeless Kid (Mendenhall Mysteries, #1)

Kate Williams hopes her new job as a small-town police chief will be a welcome change from the nasty internal politics she dealt with in Toronto. She should have known better. Even after a few months, she's still dealing with a police department angry that an outsider was picked over their local candidate.

When a homeless man turns up at the department claiming he witnessed a six-year-old boy's abduction, she has to decide if the child really is missing, or if the homeless man imagined the w...