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...
Missing persons
- Author:Deon MeyerSummary:
- Author:Deen, NatashaSummary:
Zack Bernard has a thing for crime shows, especially the forensic-investigation kind. So when his friend Ella goes missing, Zack can't help piecing together what he thinks is concrete evidence that could lead to her whereabouts....
- Author:Brown, SandraSummary:
In this tantalizing thriller from a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a woman uncovers lifelong secrets as she searches for the truth behind her father's involvement in a heist gone wrong. Twenty years ago in the dead of...
- Author:Howell, NiallSummary:
Spilt blood whets the appetite of a ravine at the heart of Haddington Springs, a bedroom community with a closet full of bones. It's 1997, and Robin and his two best friends, Steph and Dylan, are ready to dive into their first summer as...
- Author:McMahon, JenniferSummary:
The New York Times bestselling author of Promise Not to Tell returns with a simmering literary thriller about ghostly secrets, dark choices, and the unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters . . . sometimes too unbreakable. West...
- Author:Chase, EveSummary:
"An enthralling story of secrets, sisters, and an unsolved mystery." —Kate Morton
An evocative novel in the vein of Kate Morton and Daphne Du Maurier, in which the thrill of first love clashes with the bonds of sisterhood, and...
- Author:Alderson, SarahSummary:
Orla and Kate have been best friends forever. Together they've faced it all - be it Orla's struggles as a new mother or Kate's messy divorce. And whatever else happens in their lives, they can always look forward to their...
- Author:Martin, CharlesSummary:
Murphy Shepherd is a man with many secrets. He lives alone on an island, tending the grounds of a church with no parishioners, and he’s dedicated his life to rescuing those in peril. But as he mourns the loss of his mentor and friend,...
- 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:Higdon, ChristineSummary:
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, with talk of drifters and murderous husbands. But no one can find a trace of Bette Parsons or...
- Author:Julavits, HeidiSummary:
A power struggle between a leading student at an elite institute for psychics and her jealous legendary mentor culminates in the student being forced to relive her mother's suicide during a brutal psychic attack.
- 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:Nova Glass, SeraphinaSummary:
The Most Anticipated 2024 Book Releases by Nerd Daily Most Anticipated Crime Fiction Novels of 2024 by Novel Suspects "[An] entertaining thriller [that] maintain[s] tension and intrigue through to the satisfying end. The author...
- Author:Young, AdrienneSummary:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A woman risks everything to end her family's centuries-old curse, solve her mother's disappearance, and find love in this mesmerizing novel from the author of Spells for Forgetting . "Come for...
- Author:Bowen, GailSummary:
On a Saturday bright with harbingers of spring, Joanne Kilbourn-Shreve, her husband, Zack, and their family prepare to celebrate the season. Joanne's life is full, and at 60, she has been given the chance to understand a part of...
- Author:Chari, SheelaSummary:
Based on the Peabody Award–winning podcast, this tech-filled adventure series pits intrepid Mars Patel and his outcast friends against a brilliant, enigmatic billionaire as they race to figure out why kids are disappearing from their...
- 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.
- Author:Charbonneau, JoelleSummary:
Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out her friends who do not pass The Testing are disappearing.
- Author:Peter RobinsonSummary:
While recuperating from the events ofAftermathon a Greek island, Inspector Alan Banks reads that the bones of his childhood friend, Graham Marshall, have been dug up in a field not far away from the road where he disappeared more than...
- Author:Pullman, PhilipSummary:
Here is the highly anticipated second installment of Philip Pullman's epic fantasy trilogy, begun with the critically acclaimed "The golden compass". Lyra and Will, her newfound friend, tumble separately into the strange tropical...