Atlantic Monthly Press has released the latest book written by internationally renowned author and investigative journalist Mark Bowden, a Kennett resident.

The Last Stone tells the story of sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, ages 10 and 12, who vanished from a shopping mall in suburban Washington, D.C., on March 29, 1975.

“As shock spread, then grief, a massive police effort found nothing,” the book description reads. “The investigation was shelved, and mystery endured. Then, in 2013, a cold case squad detective found something he and a generation of detectives had missed. It pointed them toward a man named Lloyd Welch, then serving time for child molestation in Delaware.”

In 1975, Bowden, who went on to write Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War and Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw, was just 23 years old and working as a reporter for the Baltimore News-American.

Bowden covered the frantic first weeks of the story for the newspaper. More than 40 years later, he returned to write its ending.

The Last Stone recounts a masterpiece of criminal interrogation and delivers a chilling and unprecedented look inside a disturbing criminal mind.

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