A World Lost. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1996.

Also collected in Three Short Novels. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2002.

From the back cover:

It is the summer of 1944, and nine-year-old Andy Catlett is engrossed in the wide easy countryside near Port William, Kentucky. But sadness, loss, and mystery invade Andy's world on a hot July afternoon when his Uncle Andrew is murdered.

Cover illustration by William Dunlap, Valley View - Fog Lift. 151 pages.

First sentence:

It was early July, bright and hot; I was staying with my grandmother and grandfather Catlett.