Lost Man’s Lane

I was hooked by this intriguing premise: in 1999, Bloomington IN teenager Marshall is pulled over for speeding by a cranky police officer within hours of getting his driver's license. During the traffic stop he notices a pretty blonde girl sitting in the back of the police cruiser. Not long after, he discovers the girl is missing—but when he reports what he witnessed to the authorities, they tell him the officer that issued his speeding ticket doesn't exist and chide him for trying to mess up their case. Marshall knows what he saw, and is determined to get to the bottom of it. This turned out be a supernatural thriller in the vein of Stephen King's Fairy Tale that, while plotty, also featured well-developed characters that I loved and rooted hard for. (The Weller! Who's read this and knows what I'm talking about?) For those of us who were teens in the 90s, the nostalgia factor here is incredibly high.