"Found"

"Found" by Harlan Coben is the third book in his Mickey Bolitar series.  Coben is the number 1 New York Times bestselling author of a lot of adult novels but this is his young adult series starring Mickey Bolitar, a high school basketball player, and his friends who help him solve mysteries and/or find people.  Coben has won the Edgar Award, Shamus Award, and Anthony award -- the first author to receive all three.  You can visit him at www.harlancoben.com or www.mickeybolitar.com.

Mickey is convinced his dad, who reportedly died in a car accident, is still alive but there's really no one to believe him except a "batty" old woman who says she heard his father's voice although she's never heard the voice of a dead person before and she has plenty of ghosts in her past.

In the meantime, Mickey is living his dream of staying in one place so he can attend school, make friends, and make the basketball team.  When he makes the varsity team, life isn't as easy as he thought when the players who have been together all their lives shun him -- until they need his help.

When one of Mickey's close friends asks for his help, he learns that helping someone else may also help him.

I'm disappointed that I've not seen anything about a 4th book in this series -- I don't want it to end!  pazt