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81) Stolen
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Detective Tom Adkins is a devoted cop haunted by the unsolved disappearance of his young son eight years earlier. But when Adkins discovers the buried remains of a boy who was brutally murdered more than half a century ago, he becomes obsessed with investigating the long-forgotten crime.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister's disappearance for years to come. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father...
83) Blindside
Author
Series
Detective Michael Bennett thriller volume 12
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The mayor of New York has a daughter who's missing and in danger. Detective Michael Bennett has a son who's in prison. The two strike a deal. Bennett and the mayor have always had a tense relationship, but now the mayor sees in Bennett a discreet investigator with family worries of his own. Just one father helping another. The detective leaps into the case, and sources lead him to a homicide in the Bronx. The victim has ties to a sophisticated hacking...
Author
Publisher
St Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When four-year-old William vanishes in the woods behind his home, the only witness is his older brother who whispers, "The lights took him," and then never speaks again. With these words, the boys' grandmother Lynn Roseworth fears only she knows the truth. But coming forward would ruin her family and her husband's political career. As Lynn and her best friend Roxy revisit the secrets of her long-buried past to find clues that will lead to William,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"She'll never give up on finding her baby. And neither will the sheriff of Whistler. For five years, Cora Reeves has searched for her baby, who went missing in a fire-a baby she swears is still out there. When the private investigator sniffing out clues ends up dead, Sheriff Jacob Maverick's on the cold case. As old evidence takes on new meaning, Jacob is deperate to ensure Cora's safety. Especially once he realizes how far someone is willing to go...
Author
Series
Buddy files volume 1
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While searching for his mysteriously lost human family, Buddy the dog is adopted by another family and helps solve the mystery of their missing boy.
87) The Summit
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From a New York Times–bestselling author, this romantic suspense featuring a female psychic "is a compelling tale about the mysterious powers of dreams" (Booklist).
A horrible nightmare is haunting Autumn Sommers-a dream of a little girl abducted from her own yard. Autumn knows the danger of ignoring such powerful omens. This time, she knows she must do something to help find the kidnapped child. Her research into local missing persons suggests...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ten years after her teenage daughter disappears, a woman crosses paths with a charming single father whose young child feels eerily familiar, in this evocative, suspenseful drama from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell--perfect for fans of Paula Hawkins and Liane Moriarty. Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was fifteen, the youngest of three. She was beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers. She and her boyfriend made a teenaged...
89) Protector
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Series
Language
English
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Description
A teenager goes missing after surviving the massacre of her family, in this fast-paced novel of corruption and conspiracy from the author of Vigilante . . .
James Ryker and his protégé, Henrik Svenson, travel to the small alpine town of St Vincent, recently rocked by the triple murder of a prominent family. The sole survivor of the horrific crime, teenager Sophie Thibaud, has since been cared for by her aunt. Upon their arrival, however, Ryker...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Six years after her twin sister's death, 16-year-old Sage discovers a shocking secret, her sister didn't die, she was committed to Willowbrook State School. The sister recently went missing, and, determined to find her, Sage walks through its doors, which changes her life in ways she never could have imagined"--
Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In her enthralling debut, Gilly Macmillan explores a mother's search for her missing son, weaving a taut psychological thriller as gripping and skillful as The Girl on the Train and The Guilty One." --In a heartbeat, everything changes...Rachel Jenner is walking in a Bristol park with her eight-year-old son, Ben, when he asks if he can run ahead. It's an ordinary request on an ordinary Sunday afternoon, and Rachel has no reason to worry--until Ben...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In What I Had Before I Had You by Sarah Cornwell, a woman must face the truth about her past in this luminous, evocative literary novel of parents and children, guilt and forgiveness, memory and magical thinking, set in the faded, gritty world of the New Jersey Shore. Olivia was only fifteen the summer she left her hometown of Ocean Vista. Two decades later, on a visit with her children, her nine-year-old son Daniel, recently diagnosed with bipolar...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The search for a missing child uncovers a wealthy family's darkest secrets in this 1905 mystery by the author of The Circular Study . On the morning of August 18, six-year-old heiress Gwendolen Ocumpaugh went missing from her family's Hudson Valley estate. Now her parents are offering a fortune to anyone who can locate her, dead or alive. The distressing announcement causes a stir across New York, but it is a welcome opportunity for struggling private...
94) Blind Faith
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"He has nothing and everything to lose... When a seventeen-year-old boy goes missing while camping with his buddies in the Chisos Mountains in Big Bend, the case is right up PI Charlie Dodge's alley. Charlie's reputation for finding missing people -- especially missing kids -- is unparalleled. Unfortunately, trouble seems to be equally good at finding him. Charlie's still in the thick of it when bad news arrives regarding his wife, Annie, whose early...
95) The 4th Secret
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Magi return ... When a brutal attack leaves a priest close to death and screaming of dark prophecies, Professor Alex Harker once again finds himself pulled into the shadowy world of the Magi. On dubious pretenses, Harker must join a desperate search for the missing child he has sworn to protect. But as he edges closer to the truth, he realises the child's importance pales in significance to the cataclysmic events unfolding around him. When reality...
96) One More Day
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Don't look away No one wants to be the mother whose child disappears. It's unthinkable, the stuff of nightmares. But when she turns her back to pay a parking meter, Carrie Morgan becomes that mother. Ben is gone, and more than a year later, it's clear that he is never coming back. Until he does ... for just twenty-four hours, before once again vanishing from his crib without a trace. Rumors start to circulate through Carrie's small town. Whispers...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins e-books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"In the glittering world of Regency London, where gossip is exchanged -- and reputations ruined -- with the tilt of a fan, Melanie Fraser is the perfect wife. Devoted to her husband, Charles, the grandson of a duke, she is acknowledged as society's most charming hostess. But just as the elegant facade of Regency London hides a dark side, Melanie is not what she seems. She has a secret: one that could destroy her perfect jewel-box life forever... and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sophomore Hallie Calhoun, her former friend Jonah, and new friend Rachel leave a church youth group hike in the Great Smoky Mountains and become lost for five days, struggling to survive as Hallie finally speaks about the incident that made her a social pariah and Jonah admits why it hurt him so much.
Author
Series
Three Pines mystery volume 11
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged beasts in the woods, to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his tales are so extraordinary no one can possibly believe him. Including Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache, who now live in the little Quebec village. But when the boy disappears, the villagers are faced with the possibility that one of his tall tales might...
100) Haunted
Author
Series
Michael Bennett volume (Book 10)
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"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 -- until several bodies turn up in the woods. As Bennett...
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