Missing Pieces — Jon Ripslinger

Kyle Donovan's life is shattered when his mother goes missing and his father is accused of dismembering her and dumping her pieces into the Mississippi River. He expects his dad's trial for the crime to solve the mystery, but when it ends in a hung jury, Kyle must make a difficult choice: live with the agonizing uncertainty that's destroying him and his little sister, Kelly, or find the truth himself, no matter what the cost. Either way, he'll lose at least one parent, but he might be able to salvage what's left of a normal life for him and Kelly. Compelled by a desperate need to end the madness that his life has become, and with the help of Becky, one of the only people at school who will still talk to him, Kyle forces himself to follow a string of clues the police missed and struggles to face the terrible truth about his own role in his mother's disappearance.