Reservoir 13 (2017)

A teenage holidaymaker disappears near an English village, and the search becomes part of the community's continuing life over thirteen years. McGregor follows work, weather, relationships and recurring memories rather than building a conventional detective puzzle. Choose this for the long afterlife of an absence and the people who live around it. The book's deliberate distance from a neat reconstruction is essential to its form; approach it as a collective literary portrait.