The Babysitter’s Lie
A Mick & Mack Mystery
Inspired by a chilling true case
Toronto, 1948. The city is expanding, the suburbs are booming—and evil is hiding in plain sight.
When twelve-year-old Lillian “Lily” Moore is found strangled in a snowy construction lot, Detectives Mick McCathie and Mack MacNeely are called to a scene that feels more deliberate than tragic. No signs of robbery. No sign of panic. Just a red coat, a missing button, and a scarf tied far too tightly around a child’s neck.
As the detectives dig into Lily’s final hours, they uncover a handwritten babysitting list posted at a local grocery store—a list with four names, and four almost-victims. Someone posed as a worried parent, called each girl, and waited for one to say yes.
But this wasn’t about childcare. It was a hunt.
And Lily wasn’t chosen by accident.
With the help of sardonic coroner Dr. Kendall, sharp-eyed private investigator Johnny Chandler, and the growing fear of a pattern reaching back years, Mick and Mack race to piece together the truth before the killer disappears back into the city’s sprawl.
A scarf. A lie. A list. And a name that won’t stay buried.
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