Description for THE DOLLMAKER'S DAUGHTERS by Abigail Padgett: Fianna is not your usual fifteen-year-old. You can find her most nights at Goblin Market, a dark and misty club where teenage would-be vampires come to play. Like her peers, Fianna dresses in theme-appropriate black. But unlike anyone else, she always carries an old baby doll, its body chained to a leather cuff and cloaked in black lace, its vacant eyes staring sightlessly out of a cracked ceramic head. Fianna is a lively fixture on the scene---until the night she is found sprawled on the Market patio, with a gaze as bland as her doll's. San Diego's juvenile court system quickly assigns Bo Bradley to the case. To Bo's relief, Janny Malcolm, A.K.A. Fianna, is still alive. Catatonic and scared out of her wits, Janny insists that someone---or something---is after her. And Bo's deeply sensitive instincts tell her that these fears are not ill-founded. Unearthing an old file, Bo discovers more loose threads. Why is there no mention of a twin sister in Janny's case history? Why was Janny abandoned to foster care while her brother was adopted by their grandparents? And where has her twin been for the past thirteen years? Tracking the truth will lead Bo to a musty Victorian mansion and the workshop of an aging dollmaker. There, observed by hundreds of glass eyes peering out of hundreds of bisque skulls, she will become embroiled in a viper's nest of unspeakable secrets, forgotten crimes, cutthroat jealousy, and bitter blackmail. Trying to rescue Janny from the treacherous past, Bo will learn the hard way that evil never rests...and is always ready for murder. This is #5 in A Bo Bradley Mystery.
