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Grace is gone : a novel / by Elgar, Emily,author.;
From the author of 'If You Knew Her' comes a story about a tight-knit English community whos rocked by the murder of a mother, the mysterious disappearance of her daughter, and the secrets that lie concealed beneath a carefully constructed facade.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Missing persons; Mothers and daughters; Murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The split : a novel / by Frick, Kit,author.;
"When her sister Esme leaves her high-society husband and needs a ride, Jane Conner imagines one reality where she tells Esme to crash with a friend and then 24 hours later she disappears, and another reality where she brings Esme back to Connecticut where they must reckon with an explosive secret from their past"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Families; Missing persons; Secrecy; Sisters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Renegade wife / by Daniels, B. J.,author.;
"After her double-crossing, thieving husband disappears, Geneva Carrington Beck and her puppy--he only thing the no-account left behind--recruit Montana outfitter Calhoun St. Pierre to track him down. But their mountain mission takes a dangerous turn when criminals searching for the missing man make his bride a target ... and a widow. Now a reluctant hero has to partner with and protect the renegade wife"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; Criminals; Man-woman relationships; Missing persons;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Case study / by Burnet, Graeme Macrae,1967-author.;
Includes bibliographical references.London, 1965. A young woman believes that a charismatic psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, has driven her sister to suicide. Intent on confirming her suspicions, she assumes a false identity and presents herself to him as a client, recording her experiences in a series of notebooks. But she soon finds herself drawn into a world in which she can no longer be certain of anything. Even her own character. From the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel, 'His Bloody Project'.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; False personation; Notebooks; Psychotherapists; Suicide;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Lady sunshine : a novel / by Doan, Amy Mason,author.;
"For Jackie Pierce, everything changed the summer of 1979, when she spent three months of infinite freedom at her bohemian uncle's sprawling estate ... Jackie and her cousin Willa fell into a fast friendship, testing their limits along the rocky beach ... until the summer abruptly ended in tragedy, and Willa silently slipped away into the night. Twenty years later, Jackie unexpectedly inherits The Sandcastle and ... when a piece of the past ... sparks new questions about Willa's disappearance, Jackie must discover if the dark secret she's kept ever since is even the truth at all"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Betrayal; Families; Missing persons; Secrecy;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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A mortal likeness : a Victorian mystery / by Rowland, Laura Joh,author.;
A photographer in 1889 London, Miss Sarah Bain runs a private detective agency with her friends, Lord Hugh Staunton and former street urchin Mick O'Reilly. Their sole credential is that they solved the Jack the Ripper case, a secret they can never tell because they did it outside the boundaries of the law. Their new big case arises when a wealthy banker, Sir Gerald Mariner, posts a handsome reward for finding his missing infant. All of London joins in the search. But Sarah has an advantage--a photograph she took during a routine surveillance job, which unexpectedly reveals a clue about the kidnapping.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Private investigators; Missing persons;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The feral detective : a novel / by Lethem, Jonathan,author.;
"Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a strip mall office on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She's looking for her friend's missing daughter, Arabella, and hires Heist as a guide. A laconic loner who keeps a rescued opossum in a desk drawer, Heist intrigues the sarcastic and garrulous Phoebe. Reluctantly, he agrees to help. The unlikely pair navigate the enclaves of desert-dwelling vagabonds and find that Arabella is in serious trouble--caught in the middle of a violent standoff that only Heist, mysteriously, can end. Phoebe's trip to the desert was always going to be strange, but it was never supposed to be dangerous ..."--Jacket flap.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Private investigators; Missing persons;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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In a quiet town / by Garza, Amber,1977-author.;
Tatum hasn't seen her daughter, Adrienne, in years, not since Tatum's husband--the pastor in their small California town--all but disowned her. When she finally gathers the courage to secretly reconnect with Adrienne, Tatum's thrilled she's even willing to talk to her. But then--Adrienne disappears. Tatum tries desperately to get the police or her husband to take her daughter's disappearance seriously, but no one will listen, until a mysterious man shows up claiming to be Adrienne's fiancé. It's a relief to finally have someone who believes her, someone who's trying as hard as she is to find out where Adrienne is. But can she trust that this stranger is who he says he is? And can she find her daughter before it's too late?
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Missing persons; Mothers and daughters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Silent lies / by Croft, Kathryn(Novelist),author.;
"Mia Hamilton lived the perfect life with her husband, university teacher Zach, and their two-year-old daughter. But everything changed when Zach committed suicide on the same night one of his students vanished. Five years later, just when Mia is beginning to heal, stranger Alison walks into her life, saying her husband didn't kill himself. Fragile, slight Alison leads Mia on a path into Zach's past, and Mia begins to think she never really knew her own husband. As the secrets revealed get darker, Alison becomes harder to read, and Mia starts to wonder-- why is Alison so keen to help? And then a piece of the puzzle appears in an impossible place, and Mia has to ask, is she losing her mind, or should she be afraid for her life?"--Page [4] of cover.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Married people; Missing persons;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A flicker in the dark / by Willingham, Stacy,author.;
"From debut author Stacy Willingham comes a masterfully done, lyrical thriller, certain to be the launch of an amazing career. A Flicker in the Dark is eerily compelling to the very last page. When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath. Now twenty years later, Chloe is a psychologist in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. While she finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness she's worked so hard to achieve, she sometimes feels as out of control of her own life as the troubled teens who are her patients. So when a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another, that terrifying summer comes crashing back. Is she paranoid, seeing parallels from her past that aren't actually there, or for the second time in her life, is Chloe about to unmask a killer?"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Missing persons; Psychologists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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