{"product_id":"for-nothing-is-hidden-inspired-by-one-of-the-oldest-unsolved-missing-child-cases-in-u-s-history-hardcover","title":"For Nothing Is Hidden: Inspired by One of the Oldest Unsolved Missing Child Cases in U.S. History - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn A. Valenti 3rd\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBookLife by Publishers Weekly Comparable Titles: Emma Donoghue's Room and Lisa Jewell's Then She Was Gone\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"(Valenti) provides \u003cem\u003eIn Cold Blood\u003c\/em\u003e-like depth to this fictional account\" -- \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"If you're not losing sleep over what happened to little Bobby Goodson, I don't know what book you're reading\" -- Toni Woodruff, \u003cem\u003eIndependent Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Valenti's background in journalism shines through . . . the result being a no-frills, unflinching look at grief and uncertainty that lingers long after the final page\" -- \u003cem\u003eBookLife, Publishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA frantic mother tells cops her kids have vanished in broad daylight from outside a suburban Long Island market on Halloween. Inspired by one of the oldest unsolved missing child cases in U.S. history [the 1955 disappearance of Steven Damman] and other worldwide missing child cases like it, For Nothing Is Hidden,  is a cautionary tale spanning more than 50 years -- from the initial disappearance of little Bobby Goodson to its impact on the already tenuous marriage of his small-town, middle America-raised parents en route to the unlikeliest of resolutions decades later. You'll think you'll know it all from the start. Truth is, you won't.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe debut novel by John A. Valenti 3rd, a veteran national award-winning journalist for the Long Island, New York-based Newsday.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eValenti's decades of insightful, in-depth reporting shine through as this novel explores the often untold strains of a criminal investigation, peeling back layers on the marriage of Driscoll and Colleen Goodson as police and the media pore through the smallest details of their lives in an attempt to find their missing son. Valenti ties in real crimes of the day -- the so-called \"Shooting of the Century\" killing of millionaire William Woodward Jr. by his socialite wife Ann; the famed \"Boy in the Box\" mystery -- in a seamless weave of events that blur the line between fact and fiction in this literary, historic crime novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs BookLife, Publishers Weekly,  said of the debut: \"Valenti skillfully probes the heartbreaking tragedy of missing child cases: the slow, unraveling grief of not knowing, the persistent hope that tomorrow may bring news, and the quiet terror of imagining the worst, all colliding against the exhausting machinery of police procedure, by necessity methodical and impersonal . . . There's a clean precision in how the investigation unfolds and a restraint in tone that sidesteps melodrama.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 372\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 21, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53501785112941,"sku":"9798988919353","price":45.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/0823\/9213\/files\/YQJszcDU0B9798988919353.webp?v=1782910617","url":"https:\/\/cleanfreaklab.myshopify.com\/products\/for-nothing-is-hidden-inspired-by-one-of-the-oldest-unsolved-missing-child-cases-in-u-s-history-hardcover","provider":"Clean Freak Lab","version":"1.0","type":"link"}