Mignon Ballard

Miss Dimple Disappears
A Dimple Kilpatrick Cozy Series

It's fall 1942 in Elderberry, Georgia, and the small town has experienced the effects of WWII, with rationing and so many of its young men going off to fight. Then, just before Thanksgiving, first-grade teacher Miss Dimple Kilpatrick disappears. Young teachers Charlie Carr and Annie Gardner only know that Miss Dimple, as they call her, would never walk out on her students in the middle of the school year. When the school's janitor, "Christmas" Wilson, is found dead in the school's upstairs storage room, no one realizes a possible connection between the two events. Meanwhile, Miss Dimple finds herself in a basement room, where her masked captor keeps her fed. She decides to do what she can to help herself, even though she doesn't know why she's being held captive.