Lenk, Jerico. The Missing, Month 9 Books, 2018.
Nominated for the Walter Dean Myers Award 2018 and requested submission by ALA/GLBTRT Stonewall Youth Subcommittee.
"Victorian-era Ghost Hunters meets Sherlock Holmes." Historical speculative/fantasy novel at the intersection of Victorian gender/sexuality anxieties and historical phenomena such as "Principal Boy" drag performance, the 1888 Cleveland Street Scandal, etc., and Victorian occult, with themes of liminal lived experiences such as drug abuse and sex work, funeral businesses, occult societies, and the "ghostly" presence of queerness.