--- product_id: 46204038 title: "The Child Finder: A Novel" price: "Rp576344" currency: IDR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.id/products/46204038-the-child-finder-a-novel store_origin: ID region: Indonesia --- # The Child Finder: A Novel **Price:** Rp576344 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Child Finder: A Novel - **How much does it cost?** Rp576344 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.id](https://www.desertcart.id/products/46204038-the-child-finder-a-novel) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description “It’s ‘Deliverance’ encased in ice… Denfeld’s novel is indeed loaded with suspense, its resonance comes from its surprising tilt towards storytelling restraint, a rarity in this typical crackling genre. Elegiac, informative and disquieting. . . . The novel gallops to a suitably heart-racing finish.” — New York Times Book Review A haunting, richly atmospheric, and deeply suspenseful novel from the acclaimed author of The Enchanted about an investigator who must use her unique insights to find a missing little girl. Three years ago, Madison Culver disappeared when her family was choosing a Christmas tree in Oregon’s Skookum National Forest. She would be eight-years-old now—if she has survived. Desperate to find their beloved daughter, certain someone took her, the Culvers turn to Naomi, a private investigator with an uncanny talent for locating the lost and missing. Known to the police and a select group of parents as "the Child Finder," Naomi is their last hope. Naomi’s methodical search takes her deep into the icy, mysterious forest in the Pacific Northwest, and into her own fragmented past. She understands children like Madison because once upon a time, she was a lost girl, too. As Naomi relentlessly pursues and slowly uncovers the truth behind Madison’s disappearance, shards of a dark dream pierce the defenses that have protected her, reminding her of a terrible loss she feels but cannot remember. If she finds Madison, will Naomi ultimately unlock the secrets of her own life? Told in the alternating voices of Naomi and a deeply imaginative child, The Child Finder is a breathtaking, exquisitely rendered literary page-turner about redemption, the line between reality and memories and dreams, and the human capacity to survive. Review: Beautifully Written, Compelling, and Ultimately Joyful - This is a beautifully written and pretty wonderful novel. The two major characters, one a twenty-something and the other an eight year old, are or have been victims of sexual predators. In very different ways both find the inner strength to survive and to retain an inner core of self. The elder is now a "child finder" while the younger is a taken child. This book is far more a celebration of those who survive than it is an elegy for those who don't. The child finder has had quite a success rate in the searches for missing, presumably taken, children she has undertaken; and, as a result, she has a growing list of pleading requests from distraught parents begging for her help. She is more successful than law enforcement because of her empathy for the child, the dedication she brings to the search--devoting month after month to the single task-- and her ability (pardon the cliche) to think outside the box. This book is not critical of law enforcement. The example we are given is entirely admirable. But how often is law enforcement allowed to concentrate month after month on a single case? But she will. The book mentions one of her previous successes, the finding of a boy who had been missing for eight years. Only she, of all the law enforcement who have looked for the child, thinks to consult the original blueprints of the school where he was last seen. This is pretty much a definition of thinking outside the box. In the current case she alone among searchers finds the original land grants in the neighborhood of where the child disappears, and she along searches out each of those old, original sites for a place in which a child could be hidden. An earlier reviewer suggested that she had some unexplained arcane ability that explained her success. I disagree; it is an unending patience and a willingness to keep on keeping on which explain her success. This book obviously tackles very ugly topics--pedophilia and its victims, the victim who grows into a predator himself because he has simply never learned any other way of acting--but it does so with tact; there are no brutal and sickening scenes of child rape here. This is an author who believes her readers know what happens when a sexual predator takes a child. But above all, this is a story of those who survive; and the reader can share in the enormous accomplishment, especially considering the magnitude of what they have survived. One thought I'd like to add: A previous reviewer found the book poorly written. I disagree entirely. The two examples that person quotes are thoughts taken from a person's mind. I think that very few people monitor their thoughts for grammatical accuracy, and I found both examples utterly realistic in term of what a person in that situation might think. Be that as it may, I thought this a very fine book that I'd recommend to adults without hesitation. Review: Mesmirizing, suspenseful, insightful. - Mesmerizing story. You want to know if a child will be found, if found will she be alive, and how did she disappear? The passages involving the perpetrator are beyond upsetting, but then anyone who has read stories in the news about what happens to taken children knows it can be incredibly horrifying. It's an insight into a sick mind. And the sick power they can hold over the hostage. I always enjoy a story that goes back and forth between characters, makes it more interesting. I really like this author's writing style. She doesn't waste unneeded words. I also liked the descriptions of the Pacific N.W.surroundings, I tasted the sky and snow and ice and sun and moon and stars. I was educated in the Oregon Trail's history of fur traders and trappers. I usually find that including passages I've highlighted along the way in my reviews illustrates much better what I would attempt to say: "Her entire life she had been running from terrifying shadows she could no longer see-and in escape she ran straight into life. In the years since, she had discovered the sacrament of life did not demand memory. Like a leaf that drank from the morning dew, you didn't question the morning sunrise or the sweet taste on your mouth. You just drank." "There is no census here, Ranger Dave had said, but Naomi suspected otherwise. There was always a census-whether written in the scratchy pad of a farm boss checking off the field hands, or recorded in the head of an old woman who can recite the complete genealogy of every single resident going back three generations. The key was finding it." "She was the kind of helper Naomi had often met over the years: the town historian, gossip, and librarian all rolled into one. Naomi, naturally friendly had learned to appreciate these helpers, and show her gratitude." "You got to remember, Oregon was built on timber and trapping. It was fur traders and trappers that created the Oregon Trail. When the Homestead Act came along, some thought, Hey, my own piece of land to live off. They weren't thinking how hard it would be." "The forest was alive. Bear hair on a tree. A sky like an upside-down gold pan raining sleet that left stars in her hair." "He frowned at her, and in that moment she could see he was not like Jerome, who would have been eager to discuss this question. It was the way most people were-they kept walls around their thoughts." "Naomi didn't hesitate. She knew that if she made her request a statement, many people didn't know they could decline. So over the years she had learned to not ask permission, but to presume commend." "Naomi knew that under the skirts was something that linked the nice old woman to her, and this felt profoundly comforting to her, because the old woman seemed strong. Like she would hit badness with her black iron skillet before she let it in the door." "People had a way of appearing and disappearing in one another's lives nowadays, she had found, so that no one asked 'Is it for work?' or...'My God, you look tired'...or 'Say, do you have family here?' America was an iceberg shattered into a billion fragments, and on each stood a person, rotating like an ice floe in a storm". "She whipped around, and faster than he could stop her she put her hand right into the trap. Her finger stopped just before touching the metal trigger. She held her hand there, looking straight up at him, giving an answer with her eyes. She was willing to sacrifice, to be the broken animal in the trap. Mr. B had a look of pleasure on his face. I will not run, that offering hand told him. I will not go." "Is this why you stay on here, to search for the missing?" He replied "No. I stay here because I love the work. I can remember Sarah here. I am afraid I will forget her if I leave." "It was funny how when it was time for tomorrow, some people stayed and some people left." "Detective Winfield was right. After so many years Walter Hallsetter was likely dead. But Naomi knew that some things never die. They just get passed on." "Naomi had long thought there is no safe place, even in our minds. Even there could be traps. We could round a corner and find a secret moldering like a toadstool in the dark. The dream was like a dark demon, bringing with it scraps of the past. It was hard to tell what was a skeleton to be buried-or a treasure to be revealed." "Naomi knew people would bankrupt themselves, morally as well as financially, to rescue their children, when what they needed to do was the opposite. They needed to rebuild, to re-create." "I've killed people with weapons. I know that, I own it. It is in my soul now. See. I made it mine." Naomi responds "Oh. It's like what I tell the children after I find them: to make it theirs. I want them to feel okay about themselves, to not feel ashamed." He responds: "Exactly. Once it is part of you, then no one can tell." Naomi says "That you were ever any different?" He responds: "That you should have been anything but what you are." "Maybe she would never know. All she knew was that evil was alchemy built on opportunity. Some went searching for it. Others just waited. Either way, it was bound to happen." "This is something I know: no matter how far you have run, no matter how long you have been lost, it is never too late to be found." ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #483,423 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #4,353 in Psychological Thrillers (Books) #7,111 in Literary Fiction (Books) #8,793 in Suspense Thrillers | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 7,526 Reviews | ## Images ![The Child Finder: A Novel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61B4sFYd1QL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautifully Written, Compelling, and Ultimately Joyful *by E***Y on December 5, 2017* This is a beautifully written and pretty wonderful novel. The two major characters, one a twenty-something and the other an eight year old, are or have been victims of sexual predators. In very different ways both find the inner strength to survive and to retain an inner core of self. The elder is now a "child finder" while the younger is a taken child. This book is far more a celebration of those who survive than it is an elegy for those who don't. The child finder has had quite a success rate in the searches for missing, presumably taken, children she has undertaken; and, as a result, she has a growing list of pleading requests from distraught parents begging for her help. She is more successful than law enforcement because of her empathy for the child, the dedication she brings to the search--devoting month after month to the single task-- and her ability (pardon the cliche) to think outside the box. This book is not critical of law enforcement. The example we are given is entirely admirable. But how often is law enforcement allowed to concentrate month after month on a single case? But she will. The book mentions one of her previous successes, the finding of a boy who had been missing for eight years. Only she, of all the law enforcement who have looked for the child, thinks to consult the original blueprints of the school where he was last seen. This is pretty much a definition of thinking outside the box. In the current case she alone among searchers finds the original land grants in the neighborhood of where the child disappears, and she along searches out each of those old, original sites for a place in which a child could be hidden. An earlier reviewer suggested that she had some unexplained arcane ability that explained her success. I disagree; it is an unending patience and a willingness to keep on keeping on which explain her success. This book obviously tackles very ugly topics--pedophilia and its victims, the victim who grows into a predator himself because he has simply never learned any other way of acting--but it does so with tact; there are no brutal and sickening scenes of child rape here. This is an author who believes her readers know what happens when a sexual predator takes a child. But above all, this is a story of those who survive; and the reader can share in the enormous accomplishment, especially considering the magnitude of what they have survived. One thought I'd like to add: A previous reviewer found the book poorly written. I disagree entirely. The two examples that person quotes are thoughts taken from a person's mind. I think that very few people monitor their thoughts for grammatical accuracy, and I found both examples utterly realistic in term of what a person in that situation might think. Be that as it may, I thought this a very fine book that I'd recommend to adults without hesitation. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mesmirizing, suspenseful, insightful. *by B***C on October 26, 2017* Mesmerizing story. You want to know if a child will be found, if found will she be alive, and how did she disappear? The passages involving the perpetrator are beyond upsetting, but then anyone who has read stories in the news about what happens to taken children knows it can be incredibly horrifying. It's an insight into a sick mind. And the sick power they can hold over the hostage. I always enjoy a story that goes back and forth between characters, makes it more interesting. I really like this author's writing style. She doesn't waste unneeded words. I also liked the descriptions of the Pacific N.W.surroundings, I tasted the sky and snow and ice and sun and moon and stars. I was educated in the Oregon Trail's history of fur traders and trappers. I usually find that including passages I've highlighted along the way in my reviews illustrates much better what I would attempt to say: "Her entire life she had been running from terrifying shadows she could no longer see-and in escape she ran straight into life. In the years since, she had discovered the sacrament of life did not demand memory. Like a leaf that drank from the morning dew, you didn't question the morning sunrise or the sweet taste on your mouth. You just drank." "There is no census here, Ranger Dave had said, but Naomi suspected otherwise. There was always a census-whether written in the scratchy pad of a farm boss checking off the field hands, or recorded in the head of an old woman who can recite the complete genealogy of every single resident going back three generations. The key was finding it." "She was the kind of helper Naomi had often met over the years: the town historian, gossip, and librarian all rolled into one. Naomi, naturally friendly had learned to appreciate these helpers, and show her gratitude." "You got to remember, Oregon was built on timber and trapping. It was fur traders and trappers that created the Oregon Trail. When the Homestead Act came along, some thought, Hey, my own piece of land to live off. They weren't thinking how hard it would be." "The forest was alive. Bear hair on a tree. A sky like an upside-down gold pan raining sleet that left stars in her hair." "He frowned at her, and in that moment she could see he was not like Jerome, who would have been eager to discuss this question. It was the way most people were-they kept walls around their thoughts." "Naomi didn't hesitate. She knew that if she made her request a statement, many people didn't know they could decline. So over the years she had learned to not ask permission, but to presume commend." "Naomi knew that under the skirts was something that linked the nice old woman to her, and this felt profoundly comforting to her, because the old woman seemed strong. Like she would hit badness with her black iron skillet before she let it in the door." "People had a way of appearing and disappearing in one another's lives nowadays, she had found, so that no one asked 'Is it for work?' or...'My God, you look tired'...or 'Say, do you have family here?' America was an iceberg shattered into a billion fragments, and on each stood a person, rotating like an ice floe in a storm". "She whipped around, and faster than he could stop her she put her hand right into the trap. Her finger stopped just before touching the metal trigger. She held her hand there, looking straight up at him, giving an answer with her eyes. She was willing to sacrifice, to be the broken animal in the trap. Mr. B had a look of pleasure on his face. I will not run, that offering hand told him. I will not go." "Is this why you stay on here, to search for the missing?" He replied "No. I stay here because I love the work. I can remember Sarah here. I am afraid I will forget her if I leave." "It was funny how when it was time for tomorrow, some people stayed and some people left." "Detective Winfield was right. After so many years Walter Hallsetter was likely dead. But Naomi knew that some things never die. They just get passed on." "Naomi had long thought there is no safe place, even in our minds. Even there could be traps. We could round a corner and find a secret moldering like a toadstool in the dark. The dream was like a dark demon, bringing with it scraps of the past. It was hard to tell what was a skeleton to be buried-or a treasure to be revealed." "Naomi knew people would bankrupt themselves, morally as well as financially, to rescue their children, when what they needed to do was the opposite. They needed to rebuild, to re-create." "I've killed people with weapons. I know that, I own it. It is in my soul now. See. I made it mine." Naomi responds "Oh. It's like what I tell the children after I find them: to make it theirs. I want them to feel okay about themselves, to not feel ashamed." He responds: "Exactly. Once it is part of you, then no one can tell." Naomi says "That you were ever any different?" He responds: "That you should have been anything but what you are." "Maybe she would never know. All she knew was that evil was alchemy built on opportunity. Some went searching for it. Others just waited. Either way, it was bound to happen." "This is something I know: no matter how far you have run, no matter how long you have been lost, it is never too late to be found." ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Dark and haunting tale *by C***Z on August 25, 2018* The Child Finder is a dark and haunting tale of missing children and a woman who hunts for them. Set in the snowy mountains of Oregon, the descriptions are beautiful and lyrical although the conditions are often brutal as people seek to survive the harsh conditions. Naomi is the Child Finder, a woman who herself was once lost as a child and then found and brought back to safety and love. Although she doesn't remember what happened to her, she dedicates her life to finding missing children, even though not all of them will be alive. Madison Culver disappeared when she was five during a family trip to the remote forest in the Skookum National Park to find a Christmas tree. She wandered off into the forest and was never found despite a widespread search. Three years Naomi has been asked by the Culvers to try to find out what happened to her. They know she may have perished three years ago but need to know for sure so they can move on with their lives. Naomi is very self sufficient and doesn't connect well with people, having only a few people in the world she loves and trusts. She is fearless of the outdoors and is well able to look after herself. Her instincts are very reliable when it comes to reading people and she is smart and persistant in teasing out clues to missing children. The story is very compelling and well paced and was hard to put down. Issues of child abduction and child abuse are dealt with sensitively and without great detail with the focus more on how children survive and protect themselves against these atrocities. There are hints of a sequel, possibly dealing with Naomi's own story as she starts to remember a bit more about her own past towards the end of the book, so that is something I'll be looking out for. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.id/products/46204038-the-child-finder-a-novel](https://www.desertcart.id/products/46204038-the-child-finder-a-novel) --- *Product available on Desertcart Indonesia* *Store origin: ID* *Last updated: 2026-05-11*