Without a Word

“[A] heartfelt . . . complex portrait of a severely damaged child and her emotionally cut-off father” and the PI and her service dog who sign on to save them (Publishers Weekly).

A missing mother. A child made mute by the trauma. A distraught father willing to do anything to help his daughter. It’s the kind of case private investigator Rachel Alexander can’t walk away from—even though finding the girl’s mother seems hopeless. Sally Spector disappeared five years ago without a trace. But wi...