When I found out there were two YA books coming out, one about Fox Mulder and one about Dana Scully, you know I had to grab them. Of course I read the Fox Mulder one first because duh :)
Seventeen year old Fox is living in D.C. with the man he believes to be his father, Bill Mulder (season six, "Two Fathers" and "One Son"), following his parents' separation. A couple of kids are kidnapped, and one turns up dead, his corpse displayed in a ritualistic manner. Fox is still reeling from his sister's kidnapping several years earlier and he's determined to save the life of at least one little girl, since he couldn't save Samantha. With the help of his best friends, Phoebe and Gimble, they discover the man responsible for the child abductions. His name is Earl Roy Propps. Fox and his friends have to make a visit to the FBI to give statements, and Fox meets John Douglas of the Behavioral Sciences Unit (it wasn't the BAU until later), who encourages young Fox to go to Oxford and study psychology. I really loved how she drew in Phoebe, Fox's girlfriend from college (remember that first season episode "Fire" where Dana caught the two of them embracing? Priceless), and John Douglas, the real life agent who helped create the BSU. And of course as soon as they said Earl Roy's last name was Propps I went wait, as in Monty Propps? The serial killer who Mulder helped catch early on in his career that catapulted him to super stardom in the Bureau before he discovered the X-Files and became known as Spooky (season one "Pilot")? That Propps? Turns out Earl is his younger brother. It was a fun, quick read. I do feel like Garcia didn't really nail teenaged Mulder as well as she could have, but it was still fun.
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