The Lost Children
Book 2 of the Mogi Franklin Mysteries

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Donald Willerton

Paperback:
Perfect bound, 174 pages , 5.5" x 8.5" 
ISBN 978-1-938288-77-7
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About the Mogi Franklin Mysteries

The Lost Children is the second novel in the nine-book Mogi Franklin series of Southwest-based mysteries for middle-grade boys and girls.

Coming Fall 2017
Three more books in the Mogi Franklin Mysteries:
The Hidden River, September 2017
The Lake of Fire, October 2017
The Secret of La Rosa, Ocotber 2017
About the Book
At a picnic in the mountains in 1891, three children run into the forest to play and are never seen again. More than a hundred years later, Mogi Franklin and his sister, Jennifer, discover a series of clues that bring them to the brink of solving the mystery, only to be thwarted by a resort-building billionaire eager to sacrifice an entire town to build a playground for the rich.

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About the Author

Donald Willerton was raised in a small oil boomtown in the Panhandle of Texas, becoming familiar through family vacations with the northern New Mexico area where he now makes his home.

After earning a degree in physics from Midwestern State University in Texas and a master’s in computer science and electrical engineering from the University of New Mexico, he worked for Los Alamos National Laboratory for almost three decades. 

During his career there, Willerton was a supercomputer programmer for a number of years and a manager after that for “way too long,” and also worked on information policy and cyber-security.

He finds focusing on only one thing very difficult among such varied interests as home building, climbing Colorado’s tallest peaks, and rafting the rivers of the Southwest (including the Colorado through Grand Canyon). Willerton also has owned a handyman business for a number of years, rebuilt old cars, and made furniture in his woodshop.

He is a wanderer in both mind and body, fascinated with history and its landscape, varied peoples and their cultures, good mysteries, secrets, and seeking out treasure. Most of all, he loves the outdoors and the places he finds in the Southwest where spirits live and ghosts dance. Weaving it all together to share with readers has been the driving force of Willerton’s writing over the past twenty years.

Praise for The Lost Children

This is an exciting mystery—an exceptionally fun read for anyone familiar with the area around Ouray, Colorado, but a page turner for everyone!
—Charles McCown
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Death, greed, missing kids, the ghost of a mysterious crazy miner, and the fabulous mountains of Colorado combine with the legends of the glory days of the gold rush in a story of adventure and intrigue. This second book of the exciting Mogi series takes the teen-ager into another mystery as he tries to solve a puzzle a hundred years old. Told with humor and a detailed description of the old mining country, this is a well-written work by an up-and-coming new author.
—R. Montz