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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Haunting headlines about the missing schoolgirl splashed across front pages. The family's worst fears realised when her body was found months later. The years of waiting for the truth, only to learn that the killer, known to the police, lived just yards from where Milly had vanished. Here, Gemma Dowler shares the heartbreaking account of Milly's disappearance, the suspicions that fell on the family, the fatal errors made by the police and the media's...
Author
Series
Wilde volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The man known as Wilde is a mystery to everyone, including himself. Decades ago, he was found as a boy living feral in the woods, with no memory of his past. After the police concluded an exhaustive hunt for the child's family, which was never found, he was turned over to the foster system. Now, thirty years later, Wilde still doesn't know where he comes from, and he's back living in the woods on the outskirts of town, content to be an outcast, comfortable...
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Series
Jack Reacher volume 15
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
There?s deadly trouble in the wilds of Nebraska ? and Reacher walks right into it. He falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it?s the unsolved case of a missing eight-year-old girl, already decades-old, that Reacher can?t let go. Reacher - bruised and battered - should have just kept on going. But for Reacher, that was impossible. What, in this fearful rural county, would be worth dying for?....
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Language
English
Description
Heidi and Jason aren't like other couples. Six years ago, Heidi's daughter was murdered. A year later, Jason's son Barney disappeared. Their shared loss brought them together. By chance, Heidi meets a boy she's certain is her husband's long-missing son - but Jason is equally convinced it's not him. Is Heidi mad? Or is Jason hiding something? And can their fragile marriage survive Heidi's search for the truth?
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Series
Rivers of London volume 5
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
When two young girls go missing in rural Herefordshire, police constable and wizard-in-training Peter Grant is sent out of London to check that nothing supernatural is involved. It?s purely routine - Nightingale, Peter?s superior, 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 help they...
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Series
DI Fawley volume 1
Language
English
Description
How can a child go missing without a trace? Last night, eight-year-old Daisy Mason disappeared from a family party. No one in the quiet suburban street saw anything - or at least that's what they're saying. DI Adam Fawley is trying to keep an open mind. But he knows the nine times out of ten, it's someone the victim knew. That means someone is lying ... And that Daisy's time is running out. Introducing DI Fawley and his team of Oxford detectives,...
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Language
English
Description
15 year old Maisy Mitcham and her twin brother Duncan lose their mother to an asylum one night in 1960. The twins are sent to their grandmother's country house, Nightingales. Cold and distant, she leaves them to their own devices, to explore and to grow. That is until the day Duncan doesn't come home from the woods. With their grandmother seeming to have little interest in her grandson's disappearance, and the police soon giving up hope, it is left...
9) Home
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Language
English
Description
A decade ago, kidnappers grabbed two boys from wealthy families and demanded ransom, then went silent. No trace of the boys ever surfaced. For ten years their families have been left with nothing but painful memories and a quiet desperation for the day that has finally, miraculously arrived: Myron Bolitar and his friend Win believe they have located one of the boys, now a teenager. Where has he been for ten years, and what does he know about the day,...
Author
Series
Varg Veum volume 18
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
September 1977. Mette Misvaer, a three-year-old girl disappears without trace from the sandpit outside her home. Her tiny, close middle-class community in the tranquil suburb of Nordas is devastated, but their enquiries and the police produce nothing. Curtains twitch, suspicions are raised by Mette is never found. Almost 25 years later, as the expiry date for the statute of limitations draws near, Mette's mother approaches PI Varg Veum, in a last,...
11) Silent child
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Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 2006, Emma Price watched helplessly as her six-year-old son?s red coat was fished out of the River Ouse. It was the tragic story of the year - a little boy, Aiden, wandered away from school during a terrible flood, fell into the river and drowned. His body was never recovered. Ten years later, Emma has finally rediscovered the joy in life. She?s married, pregnant and in control again ... until Aiden returns. Too traumatised to speak,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
We lost all three girls that summer. Let them slip away like the words of some half-remembered song and when one came back, she wasn't the one we were trying to recall to begin with.' Tikka Molloy was eleven and one-sixth years old during the long hot summer of 1992, growing up in a distant suburb in Australia surrounded by encroaching bushland. That summer, the hottest on record, was when the Van Apfel sisters - Hannah, the beautiful Cordelia and...
13) She's not there
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Caroline Shipley's heart nearly stops when she hears those words on the other end of the phone. Instantly, she's thrust 15 years into the past to the night her two-year-old daughter went missing from a hotel room and her whole world came tumbling down. The memories of that time are still painful.
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
When Claire Lucas is woken by her husband asking where their baby son is, she is dazed and confused. She follows Darren into their child's bedroom, hearing nothing but silence. No baby cries, no cute gurgles. The only thing left in Finlay's cot is his beloved teddy bear. Detective Jessie Blake rushes to the family's home in the rugged Scottish Highlands. She notices that Darren avoids eye contact and Claire seems disconnected - unable to account...
15) Now you see her
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Language
English
Description
Charlotte is looking after her best friend?s daughter the day she disappears. She thought the little girl was playing with her own children. She swears she only took her eyes off them for a second. Now, Charlotte must do the unthinkable: tell her best friend Harriet that her only child is missing. The child she was meant to be watching. Devastated, Harriet can no longer bear to see Charlotte. No one could expect her to trust her friend again. Only...
16) The guilty man
Author
Series
Lennox and Wilde volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A little girl, presumed dead, turns up playing happily in the park. She is barefoot but otherwise unharmed. The child's mother who lives on a notorious local estate doesn't seem bothered that her daughter has returned alive. Meanwhile, a man is tortured by a ruthless criminal. The victim's severed hand is left on his wife's doorstep. Detective Harry Lennox and DI Jess Wilde investigate. How do the cases connect and who is using threats to drive people...
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Series
Dark Star Trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James. Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter - and he always works alone. But when he is engaged to find a child who disappeared three years ago, he must break his own rules, joining a group of eight very different mercenaries working together to find the boy. Following the lost boy's scent from one ancient city to another, into dense forests and across...
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