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1) Missing
Author
Publisher
John Blake
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
For a loved one to walk out through the front door and never to return is one of the most heartbreaking, terrifying and harrowing experiences someone can go through. Not to know the fate of a person close to you is simply agonising - did they choose to disappear? Were they involved in an accident or did something even worse befall them? Not knowing for sure and being uncertain as to whether you should be saying goodbye or waiting for news of their...
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Series
A Frankie Elkin Novel volume 1
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Frankie Elkin spends her life doing what no one else will do: searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie gets to work. A new case brings Frankie to Mattapan, a Boston neighbourhood with a bad reputation. She is searching for Angelique Badeau, a Haitian teenager who vanished from her high school months earlier. But...
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English
Description
Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on a single day when a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that haunts him still resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal town he once called home. Kieran's parents are struggling in a community which is bound, for better or worse, to the sea that is both a lifeline and a threat. Between them all is his absent brother Finn. When a body is discovered on the beach,...
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Series
Private volume 14
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Jack Morgan receives an offer he cannot refuse ... When the head of the world's foremost investigation agency receives an invitation to meet Princess Caroline, third in line to the British throne, he boards his Gulfstream jet and flies straight to London. The Princess needs Morgan's skills and his discretion. Sophie Edwards, a close friend of the Princess, has gone missing. She needs to be found before the media become aware of it. Morgan knows there...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Despite having a difficult childhood, food blogger Estelle is now on the cusp of achieving everything she?s ever dreamed of. She has a successful husband, a talented daughter and her first lifestyle book is about to be published.But then she receives news that could threaten everything: a house in Lillysands, the town she once lived in, has collapsed into the sea. Left behind in its foundations is a letter suggesting her foster brother Kai is still...
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Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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'Mum, there's some people here from college, they asked me back to theirs. Just for an hour or so. Is that OK?' Midsummer 2017: teenage mum Tallulah heads out on a date, leaving her baby son at home with her mother, Kim. At 11pm she sends her mum a text message. At 4.30am Kim awakens to discover that Tallulah has not come home. Friends tell her that Tallulah was last seen heading to a pool party at a house in the woods nearby called Dark Place. Tallulah...
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English
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In the dead of night, Kate receives a phone call. Police have recovered her sister Anya's clothes and personal belongings at the poolside of a remote hideaway in Mexico - a place she had no idea Anya would be. Anya was last seen getting into a vehicle with a local diving instructor but now he's missing too. Their relationship has been complicated ever since a devastating tragedy blew their family apart, but Kate cannot believe Anya would willingly...
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Series
J.T. Ellington volume 5
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
St Pauls, Bristol, 1980. Joseph Tremaine Ellington, now 57 years old, has long abandoned his former career as an enquiry agent for the safety of teaching. But his old life draws him back. One of the very few lights from Ellington?s dark and violent past has flickered out. His fianc�e Ruth Castle is dead - leaving him again heartbroken and alone to bring up his 15-year-old niece, Chloe. Ellington?s days are long and lonely, his nights tormented by...
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Twelve years ago, Nick?s brother Rob was caught in a storm out at sea and drowned. His body was never found. When Nick met Susie at his brother?s funeral, he thought it was destiny at play. Then Rob suddenly appears on television. He is a hero. He has brought down a terrorist who opened fire on dozens of restaurant diners. Everyone wants to know who Rob is, but he?s vanished a second time, without a word. Nick is soon drawn into a multi-layered world...
11) Missing pieces
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Rebekah Murphy knows too much ... She knows she's alone on an abandoned island with a killer on her trail. She knows that to get home, she must live to understand why this is happening. She knows someone tried to kill her for a secret. What she doesn't know is what that secret is. Detective Frank Travis doesn't know enough ... He doesn't know where to find Louise Mason. He doesn't know how and why she vanished into thin air three months ago. He doesn't...
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Series
Jackson Brodie volume 3
Language
English
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In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna witnesses an appalling crime. 30 years later the man convicted of the crime gets out of prison. In Edinburgh, 16-year-old Reggie works as a nanny for a doctor. But Dr Hunter has gone missing & Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried. DCI Louise Monroe is also looking for a missing person.
13) The troubled man
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Series
Kurt Wallander volume 10
Language
English
Description
Every morning Hakan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. However, one winter's day he fails to come home. It seems that the retired naval officer has vanished without trace. Detective Kurt Wallander is not officially involved in the investigation, but he has personal reasons for his interest in the case.
14) One good turn
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Jackson Brodie volume 2
Language
English
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It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - a near-homicidal attack which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a murder suspect. As the body count mounts, each member of the teeming Dickensian cast's story contains a kernel of the next, like a set of nesting Russian dolls....
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Harry Devlin volume 1
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English
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Harry Devlin finds himself number one suspect in a murder case that is far too close to home. The victim is his estranged wife, Liz, who is found murdered in a dingy alleyway. Determined to find her killer and prove his innocence, Harry begins a journey that takes him into the city's underworld and shatters forever his illusions about the woman he loved. Now beautifully presented in eBook format, avid readers of crime will love reading this gripping,...
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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
When mob accountant Anthony Costello, nephew of the don of central Florida, is fatally stabbed in his own kitchen, the numbers are off. Way off. There were three women in the house with him that morning - his wife, Anna; his maid, Serena; and his personal chef, Sarah. All three have reason to want him dead. And all three are missing. What's more, chef Sarah happens to be married to homicide detective Sean Walsh. Walsh may be a bad husband, but he's...
17) Northwind
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Series
Robert Hoon volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Shunned by his old colleagues, and dividing his time between a dead-end job and the bottom of a whisky bottle, former Police Scotland Detective Superintendent Bob Hoon's life is a mess. Then an old face from Hoon's Special Forces days turns up asking for help: his teenage daughter has been missing for months, the police have drawn a blank and he needs the kind of help that only Hoon can provide. And besides, Hoon owes him one. From the Highlands of...
18) Outlaw
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Series
Marc Dane volume 6
Language
English
Description
Gutted by the ruthless power brokers known as the Combine, the Rubicon Group is a shadow of its former self, its founder Ekko Solomon missing presumed dead and the members of its private security and intelligence team in hiding, framed for a terrorist atrocity they did not commit. For ex-MI6 officer Marc Dane, his friend and colleague Lucy Keyes, and the survivors of Rubicon's Special Conditions Division, the future is bleak. With no support and no...
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Publisher
Bolinda/Brilliance audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
When a man's body is discovered in a Swiss glacier 30 years after he went missing, his son, Foster Treherne, hopes he'll finally have closure on what happened to the father he never met. But then the autopsy reveals signs of a struggle and what was assumed to be a tragic accident suddenly looks more sinister. Foster tracks down his father's old friends, but when he starts to ask questions it becomes clear that there's something they don't want to...
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
It?s a cold and wintery night in 1968 and ten-year-old JJ?s mother isn?t home. The cows are milked, the pigs fed and her dad won?t answer any questions. Sarah is the lifeblood of their family and her absence throws everyone off course: Tessa takes charge, Tim gets in trouble, Philly retreats and JJ blames herself. Their father works hard to keep up appearances, but something?s not right. It?s always been JJ?s job to cause trouble and when she can?t...
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