exmoor (england)

An 1869 historical romance set in seventeenth-century England about the adventures of yeoman John Ridd and his beloved Lorna Doone, a beautiful, aristocratic maiden who was kidnapped as a baby by an outlaw family.

Twelve-year-old Steven is determined to find the body of his uncle Billy, who disappeared eighteen years earlier and is believed to have been the victim of serial killer Arnold Avery who is in prison for murdering six other children and burying them in the moor around Steven's English village, but the boy makes a dangerous mistake when he writes Avery asking for help.

Twelve-year-old Steven Lamb writes to a convicted killer to try to determine the fate of his uncle, who has been missing for twenty years, a letter that triggers a psychologically charged cat-and-mouse correspondence.