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The lost boys / by Kellerman, Faye,author.;
Detectives Peter Decker and Tyler McAdams link two suspicious disappearances from an assisted living facility to the case of three missing campers, before the reappearance of a foster son's biological mother upends Decker's home life.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Decker, Peter (Fictitious character); Lazarus, Rina (Fictitious character); Police; Police spouses; Missing persons;

The forest of stolen girls / by Hur, June.;
Includes bibliographical references.In 1426 in Joseon, a year after her father vanishes while investigating the disappearance of thirteen girls, eighteen-year-old Min Hwani returns to the island of Jeju to pick up his trail with the help of her estranged sister.LSC
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Sisters; Estranged families; Missing persons; Murder; Secrecy; Forests and forestry; Villages;

Thick as thieves / by Brown, Sandra,1948-author.;
Arden Maxwell, the daughter of the man who vanished twenty years ago following his involvement in a heist gone wrong, returns to her family home near mysterious Caddo Lake to finally get answers to the questions that torment her about his disappearance, but little does she know, two of her father's co-conspirators -- a war hero and a corrupt district attorney -- are watching her every move.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Fathers and daughters; Missing persons; Thieves;

Emma in the night / by Walker, Wendy,1967-author.;
"One night three years ago, the Tanner sisters disappeared: fifteen-year-old Cass and seventeen-year-old Emma. Three years later, Cass returns, without her sister Emma. Her story is one of kidnapping and betrayal, of a mysterious island where the two were held. But to forensic psychiatrist Dr. Abby Winter, something doesn't add up. Looking deep within this dysfunctional family Dr. Winter uncovers a life where boundaries were violated and a narcissistic parent held sway. And where one sister's return might just be the beginning of the crime"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Women psychiatrists; Sisters; Missing persons; Dysfunctional families; Kidnapping;

Woman last seen / by Parks, Adele,author.;
"Leigh Fletcher: happily married stepmom to two boys goes missing on Monday. Kai Janssen: married to wealthy Dutch businessman Daan and vanishes the same week. Detective Clements knows that people disappear all the time--far too frequently. Most run away from things, some run toward and others are taken but find their way back. A sad few never return. These two women are from very different worlds. Their disappearances are unlikely to be connected. And yet, at a gut level, the detective believes they might be. How could these women walk away from their families, husbands, and homes willingly? Clements is determined to unearth the truth, no matter how shocking and devastating it may be"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Married women; Missing persons;

Her last holiday / by Taylor, C. L.,1973-author.;
Two years ago, Fran's sister Jenna disappeared on a wellness retreat on a Mediterranean island. Tom Wade, the man behind the retreat that also killed two people, has just been released from prison. But he has never let on what happened to the third suspected victim: Jenna. Determined to find out the truth, Fran books herself onto his upcoming retreat. The only question is, will she escape the retreat alive? Or does someone out there want Jenna's secrets to stay hidden?
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Women; Spiritual retreats; Missing persons;

The lost story : a novel / by Shaffer, Meg,author.;
"Inspired by C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy tale for grown-ups who still knock on the back of wardrobes - just in case - from the author of The Wishing Game. As boys, best friends Jeremy Cox and Rafe Howell vanished in a West Virginia state park, only to mysteriously reappear six months later with no explanation for where they'd gone or how they'd survived. Fifteen years after their miraculous homecoming, Jeremy is a famous missing persons investigator with an uncanny ability to find the lost, while Rafe is a reclusive artist unable to stop creating otherworldly paintings and sculptures he shows to no one. He bears scars inside and out from his disappearance but has no memory of what happened while they were gone. Jeremy alone knows the fantastical truth behind their time in the woods. While the rest of the world was searching for them, the two missing boys were in a magical realm filled with impossible beauty and terrible danger. However, Jeremy has kept Rafe in the dark since their return for his own inscrutable reasons. But the time for burying secrets comes to an end when vet tech Emilie Wendel hires Jeremy to find her long-lost sister ... the long-lost sister he and Rafe knew while living in that hidden kingdom. Now the former lost boys must confront their shared past, no matter how traumatic the memories. Alongside the headstrong Emilie, Rafe and Jeremy return to the enchanted world they called home for six months ... for only then can they get back everything and everyone they've lost"--
Subjects: Magic realist fiction.; Portal fantasy fiction.; Novels.; Artists; Friendship; Imaginary places; Magic; Missing persons; Missing persons; Secrecy;

The in crowd / by Vassell, Charlotte,author.;
"A fabulous whodunit about two cold cases in which things go missing: a fourteen-year-old girl and a multi-million-dollar pension fund. Early one morning, a men's rowing team discovers a body floating face down in the Thames. Many years before, the chief executive of a clothing manufacturer walked off with a multi-million dollar corporate retirement fund and disappeared without a trace. Now, the discovery of this body has reopened that cold case. Meanwhile, Detective Inspector Caius Beauchamp has his own evening at the theater upended by the discovery of a dead body just a few seats away. Two decades ago, Eliza Chapel, a fourteen-year-old student at a girls boarding school in Cornwall, disappeared in the middle of the night under dubious circumstances. A second body and a second cold case reopened. As DI Caius Beauchamp-along with his associates Matt Chung and Amy Noakes-investigates these parallel missing persons cases, he finds himself ensnared in the unexpected political machinations of a duke-in-waiting"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Missing persons; Murder; Police; Rich people; Upper class;

The long way back : a novel / by Baart, Nicole,author.;
"When internet-famous teen Eva goes missing less than a week before her graduation, it's her mother, Charlie, who is immediately suspected of foul play. As the investigation progresses, Charlie learns that the rose-colored image that she and her daughter projected to the world is even more false than she realized. Now, to clear her name and find out what has happened to her daughter, she'll have to confront her own role in Eva's disappearance-and whether she knows her daughter at all"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Family secrets; Missing persons; Mothers and daughters; Social media;

Mr. and Miss Anonymous / by Michaels, Fern.;
Two teenage boys are missing and their disappearance may be linked to a shady fertility clinic Peter Kelly and Lily Madison visited in college as penniless students. When Sam and Lily learn that one of the missing boys looks exactly like Sam, they set out to discover what really went on at the clinic all those years ago.LSC
Subjects: Love stories.; Ovum donors; Teenage boys; Missing persons; Fertility clinics; Man-woman relationships;
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