Did you know that in any given year, between 70,000 and 80,000 people are reported missing to police in Canada? While most are found within seven days, missing persons cases can be extremely stressful for family and loved ones.
In A Fool’s Journey, book 3 in the Marketville Mystery series, protagonist Callie Barnstable is hired to find out the whereabouts of Brandon Colbeck, who left home in March 2000 to “find himself.” No one, not friends or family, had seen or heard from him since.
Callie discovers the Ontario Registry of Missing and Unidentified Adults, an online resource that is managed by a woman named Lucy Daneluk. While the website Callie visits is fictional, it is modelled after Ontario’s Missing Adults, a phenomenal initiative owned and operated by Lusia Dion. In addition to being a tireless advocate for the missing and unidentified, Lusia went above and beyond to help me write a story that would be authentic, without being hurtful to those who have experienced the heartbreak of a missing loved one. A Fool’s Journey would not have been possible without her.