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Author
Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Stephen Lewis,a successful author of children's books, takes his three-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. Just like that. From there, Lewis spirals into bereavement that has effects on his relationship with his wife, his psyche and time itself.
3) The Cry
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Language
English
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The Cry was longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. Lies, rumours and guilt snowball, causing the parents, Joanna and Alistair, to slowly turn against each other. Finally Joanna starts thinking the unthinkable: could the truth be even more terrible than she suspected? And what will it take to make things right? Perfect for fans of Julia Crouch, Sophie Hannah and Laura Lippman, The Cry was widely acclaimed as one of...
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Language
English
Description
Then: Ellie Mack was many things. She was 15. She was the youngest of three. She was her mother's golden girl. She was heading towards a perfect post-exams summer holiday, with her whole life ahead of her. And then, she was gone. Now: Laurel Mack is living in the past. It's been 10 years since Ellie disappeared, and Laurel's never given up hope of finding her daughter. But now, she no longer has a choice in the matter. It's time to let go. And then...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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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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English
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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?
Author
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...
10) Close to home
Author
Series
DI Fawley volume 1
Language
English
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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,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
One night, Annie went missing. Disappeared from her own bed. There were searches, appeals. Everyone thought the worst. And then, after 48 hours, she came back. But she couldn't, or wouldn't, say what had happened to her. Something happened to my sister. I can't explain what. I just know that when she came back, she wasn't the same. She wasn't my Annie. I didn't want to admit, even to myself, that sometimes I was scared to death of my own little sister....
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English
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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...
13) Home
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Language
English
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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,...
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Series
Varg Veum volume 18
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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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,...
15) Silent child
Author
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
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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...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
Carmel Wakeford becomes separated from her mother at a local children's festival, and is found by a man who claims to be her estranged grandfather. He tells her that her mother has had an accident and that she is to live with him for now. As days become weeks with her new family, 8-year-old Carmel realises that this man believes she has a special gift. While her mother desperately tries to find her, Carmel embarks on an extraordinary journey, one...
18) Hello, universe
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
In one day, four lives weave together in unexpected ways. Virgil Salinas is shy and kindhearted and feels out of place in his crazy-about-sports family. Valencia Somerset, who is deaf, is smart, brave, and secretly lonely, and she loves everything about nature. Kaori Tanaka is a self-proclaimed psychic, whose little sister, Gen, is always following her around. And Chet Bullens wishes the weird kids would just stop being so different so that he can...
19) She's not there
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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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...
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