âLes Standifordâs account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything Iâve ever read. A triumph in every way.â
âDennis Lehane, author of Mystic River
âThe most significant missing child case since the LindberghâsâŠ.A taut, compelling and often touching book about a long march to justice.â
âScott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent
The abduction that changed America forever, the 1981 kidnapping and murder of six-year-old Adam Walshâson of John Walsh, host of the Fox TV series Americaâs Most Wantedâin Hollywood, Florida, was a crime that went unsolved for a quarter of a century. Bringing Adam Home by author Les Standiford is a harrowing account of the terrible crime and its dramatic consequences, the emotional story of a father and motherâs efforts to seek justice and resolve the loss of their child, and a compelling portrait of Miami Beach Homicide Detective Joe Matthews, whose unwavering dedication brought the Adam Walsh case to its resolution.