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Where's My Son?

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Frost At Christmas

R.D. Wingfield · 280 pages

D.I. Frost takes over the search for a missing child at Christmastime.

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The Various Haunts of Men

Susan Hill · 438 pages

A lonely woman of 53 vanishes in fog - hidden in her cupboard is an expensive pair of cuff-links with a note: 'To You, with all possible love from your devoted, Me'. A fat 22-year-old never returns from an early morning walk - is her disappearance connected with her girlish crush on Dava, the blue-eyed 'therapist' whose speciality is 'inner harmony'? Experienced policemen know that most missing pe

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The House of Dolls

David Hewson · 448 pages

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The Keeper of Lost Causes

Jussi Adler-Olsen · 396 pages

Chief detective Carl Mørck, recovering from what he thought was a career-destroying gunshot wound, is relegated to cold cases and becomes immersed in the five-year disappearance of a politician.

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Point of Hopes

Melissa Scott, Lisa A. Barnett

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The Monkey's Raincoat

Robert Crais · 245 pages

When Los Angeles private detective Elvis Cole investigates the disappearance of Ellen Lang's husband and young son, he stumbles into a bizarre nightmare of high-level intrigue, missing drugs, and murder in Hollywood's seamy underworld.

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The Missing File

D.A. Mishani · 289 pages

Israeli detective Avraham Avraham must find a teenage boy gone missing from the suburbs of Tel Aviv in this first volume in a new literary crime series.

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Close to Home

Peter Robinson · 451 pages

There are human bones buried in an open field, the remains of a lost teenaged boy whose disappearance devastated a community more than thirty-five years ago ... and scarred a guilt-ridden friend forever. A long-hidden horror has been unearthed, dragging a tormented policeman back into a past he could never truly forget no matter how desperately he tried. A heinous crime that occurred too close to

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The Last Place You Look

Kristen Lepionka · 336 pages

"Nobody knows what happened to Sarah Cook. The beautiful blonde teenager disappeared fifteen years ago, the same night her parents were brutally murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend Brad Stockton--black and from the wrong side of the tracks--was convicted of the murders and is now on death row. Though he's maintained his innocence all along, the clock is running out. His execution i

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The Hope That Kills

Ed James · 364 pages

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Deadly Harvest: A Detective Kubu Mystery

Michael Stanley · 432 pages

Girls are disappearing in Botswana. The rumor is they're being harvested for muti, a witch doctor's potion. Detective David "Kubu" Bengu joins the investigation with the police force's newest detective - and only woman - Samantha Khama, for whom the case is personal. Soon one girl's father, convinced that his daughter's death is linked to the recent popularity of a political candidate, takes the l

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The Drowning River

Christobel Kent · 309 pages

Investigating the alleged suicide of an eminent architect and Holocaust survivor, private investigator Sandro Cellini discovers links between the victim's final hours and a missing art student, a connection that triggers an urgent race to protect other possible victims.

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The Harbor

Katrine Engberg · 352 pages

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Foxglove Summer

Ben Aaronovitch · 354 pages

"When two young girls go missing in rural Herefordshire, police constable Peter Grant has to leave London to check that nothing supernatural is involved. It's purely routine, Nightingale thinks he'll be done in less than a day. But Peter's never been one to walk away from someone in trouble, so when nothing overtly magical turns up he volunteers his services to the local police, who need all the

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The Case of the Missing Marquess

Nancy Springer · 216 pages

When Enola Holmes, sister to the detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has disappeared, she quickly embarks on a journey to London in search of her. But nothing can prepare her for what awaits. Because when she arrives, she finds herself involved in the kidnapping of a young marquess, fleeing murderous villains, and trying to elude her shrewd older brothers—all while attempting to piece

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Black Seconds

Karin Fossum · 264 pages

A little girl seems to have vanished without trace. Inspector Sejer must find her before it's too lateIda Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off to buy sweets. A good-natured, happy girl, she is looking forward to her tenth birthday. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, Helga Joner, her mother, starts to worry. She phones the shop and various friends, but no one has seen her

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Back on Murder

J. Mark Bertrand

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The Ice Child

Camilla Lackberg

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Walk Into Silence

Susan McBride · 357 pages

When Patrick Dielman shows up at Detective Jo Larseń⁰9Сs desk insisting that his wife, Jenny, is missing, Jo wonders if it́⁰9Сs a case of a bored housewife running away. But as she digs deeper into Jenný⁰9Сs life, Jo learns that Dielman keeps a stranglehold on the family finances, down to the last nickel, and that Jenný⁰9Сs first marriage dissolved following the death of her young son. By all acco

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Haunted

James Patterson, James O. Born · 368 pages

"Detective Michael Bennett is ready for a vacation after a series of crises push him, and his family, to the brink. He settles on an idyllic, small town in the beautiful Maine woods, a recommendation from a former colleague. But just when Bennett thinks he can relax, he gets pulled into a case that has shocked the tight-knit community. Kids are disappearing left and right with no explanation -- un

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Missing, Presumed

Susie Steiner

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Buried

Mark Billingham · 522 pages

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Sweet Little Lies

Caz Frear · 368 pages

In this gripping debut procedural, a young London policewoman must probe dark secrets buried deep in her own family's past to solve a murder and a long-ago disappearance. Your father is a liar. But is he a killer? Even liars tell the truth . . . sometimes. Twenty-six-year-old Cat Kinsella overcame a troubled childhood to become a Detective Constable with the Metropolitan Police Force, but she's ne

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The Babes In The Wood

Ruth Rendell · 324 pages

The mysterious disappearance of two local teenagers and their baby-sitter draws Inspector Wexford into a baffling case involving dark family secrets, violence, a religious cult, adultery, and murder.

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