A young woman goes missing, and her mother uproots her life to find her daughter. But it is not just the heartbreak or the deep mystery of the hunt for lost loved ones. Rather, with the help of an amazingly dedicated searcher, family...
Missing persons
- Author:Bradley, JaneSummary:
- Author:Hayes, Julie LynnSummary:
Sometimes Sonny Scrignoli forgets he’s Tim Mansfield’s ex. He waltzes in and out of Tim’s apartment like he still lives there, driving Tim crazy. Is it really so hard to remember they’ve broken up? Then again, maybe Tim should quit...
- Author:Sauder, B.L.Summary:
Hong Mei and her single mother have had to move from town to town in modern China – as soon as townsfolk get suspicious that her mother's magical healing powers are, in fact, truly magical, they move on, usually in the middle of the...
- Author:Maron, MargaretSummary:
When local handyman J.D. Rouse is found dead in his pickup truck with a bullet in his head, the mayhem--and the body count--grows. But Chief Deputy Dwight Bryant, Judge Deborah Knott's new husband, launches his own investigation...
- Author:Semple, MariaSummary:
Bernadette is a frightfully intelligent wife and mother whose intense allergy to Seattle specifically, and to people in general, has driven her to hire a virtual assistant in India to execute even her most basic tasks. Then her daughter...
- Author:Brand, DionneSummary:
The story of a young six-year-old boy, Quy, separated from his family as they are fleeing Vietnam to begin a new life in Canada. Twenty years later his mother still lives in hope of finding him. Meanwhile Quy, now a dangerous criminal,...
- Author:WEST, MorrisSummary:
Carl Strassberger, the only son of a wealthy banker, is summoned from his home in France to search for his missing brother-in-law. Larry, the family businessman and a manic depressive, has vanished after landing a multi-million dollar...
- Author:Hannon, IreneSummary:
Reporter Moira Harrisons strikes a pedestrian while driving late one night on a wooded road. Dazed from the crash, Moira sees a second man appear at her window and assure her everything will be all right--but then she passes out. When...
- Author:McIsaac, MeaghanSummary:
Urgle is not a good hunter; he's not good at much of anything, particularly being a big brother to Cubby. But he has no family to fall back on: Urgle and Cubby live among the Brothers of the Ikkuma Pit. One by one, generations of boys...
- Author:Greenwood, KerrySummary:
The year is 1929 and girls are going missing in Melbourne. Little, pretty golden haired girls. And not just pretty. Three of them are pregnant, poor girls from the harsh confines of the Magdalene Laundry. People are getting nervous....
- Author:RYAN, ChrisSummary:
Nick Scott fought in the SAS during the first Gulf War. Captured and tortured, he was left a broken man. His daughter, Sarah, a beautiful young scientist who has cracked one of the scientific secrets of the age, has vanished and it is...
- Author:Saucier, JocelyneSummary:
With twenty-one kids, the Cardinal family is a force of nature. And now, after not being in the same room for decades, they're congregating to celebrate their father, a prospector who discovered the zinc mine their now-deserted...
- Author:Green, JohnSummary:
Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there's a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her best and most fearless friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together...
- Author:Green, JohnSummary:
"This novel is by far [Green's] most difficult to read. It's also his most astonishing. So surprising and moving and true that I became completely unstrung." - The New York Times "A tender story about learning to cope when the world...
- Author:Slade, Arthur G.Summary:
For Percy, the loss of his father and the suicide of his best friend build to a head during the last week before high school graduation.
- Author:Compton, ValerieSummary:
Shortlisted, Thomas Head Raddall Award. When Stella disappears, leaving her toddler and husband behind, her mother Sonia, a widowed farm wife and former lighthouse keeper, struggles to face the possibility that her daughter may not have...
- Author:Deon MeyerSummary:
Detective Benny Griessel is a legend and a drunk. He has trodden on too many toes to reach the top of the promotion ladder. But when an American backpacker disappears in Capetown, Benny has just thirteen hours to save the girl, save his...
- Author:Higdon, ChristineSummary:
Defiance, faith, and triumph in a heartrending novel about daughters and mothers
On a miserable November day in 1967, two women disappear from a working-class town on the Fraser River. The community is thrown into panic...
- Author:Kuhlken, KenSummary:
In the weeks before the 1979 Mexican elections, San Diego P.I. Alvaro Hickey follows the stories Baja California campesinos are spreading about visits from the Holy Virgin. Though Alvaro doubts her divinity, he’s firmly on her side. She...
- Author:Dickinson, RobertSummary:
When a tour bus takes a group to the mall, it is expected to be a normal excursion, until the tour rep notices one person missing. Most disturbingly, she is a woman who, according to the records, did not go missing.