While No One Was Watching

Overview

Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 p.m., U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade hits town, watched by crowds of spectators and the world’s media. Watching too from the grassy knoll nearby is a young mother who, in the confusion, lets go of her daughter's hand. When she turns around the little girl has vanished. Fifty years later, when everyone remembers what they were doing at that moment in history, she is still missing. Who will remember her? Local hack Gary Blanchet, inspired by the mother’s story, joins forces with former police psychic Lydia Collins to seek answers. Risking ridicule for their controversial theories and with a classroom shooting close to home to deal with, they re-examine the evidence from that day, study footage, and look at the official report for details of witnesses in the JFK case. But this time they re not looking for a man in a crowd with a gun; they are looking for little Eleanor Boone. Gone while no one was watching? Maybe someone was.

Reviews

“A novel with heart, with substance, with compassion.”  —Glow Magazine

“Debz Hobbs-Wyatt is a brave woman. . . . While No One Was Watching is an accomplished début that raises huge questions around secrecy, memory and the writing of history.”  —www.gwales.com

“A complex and rewarding thriller that successfully melds the personal with the political. . . . satisfying, well-crafted thriller.”  —Aniseed.com

“Here we have richly drawn characters, plenty of tension and a fast pace. . . . There is a richness of language here that makes one think a little.”  —Gill’s Recommended Reads

Author Biography

Debz Hobbs-Wyatt is a writer, editor, and publisher working who has had several short stories published in anthologies. She was nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize in 2013, short-listed in the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Award, and won the 2013 Bath Short Story Award.