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  1. 1Missing, presumed (2016)Missing, presumed (2016)Published 1 Jan 2016Cambridgeshire detective Manon Bradshaw investigates the disappearance of graduate student Edith Hind, whose well-connected family attracts intense attention. Interviews with people who know different versions of Edith gradually unsettle the first account. Steiner gives the investigator and the…0
  2. 2Reservoir 13 (2017)Reservoir 13 (2017) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2017A 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…0
  3. 3Elizabeth Is Missing (2014)Elizabeth Is Missing (2014) 7.6/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2014Maud is certain that her friend Elizabeth has disappeared, but her memory repeatedly defeats the notes and explanations meant to help her. A much older disappearance also presses into the present. Healey makes the difficulty of being heard central to the search, without reducing Maud to a device…0
  4. 4Our Missing Hearts (2022)Our Missing Hearts (2022) 7.7/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2022In an imagined authoritarian America, a boy follows a cryptic letter in search of the mother he has been taught to disavow. The journey uncovers her work, her decisions and the experiences of families whose children have been taken by the state. This is a political, speculative novel rather than a…0
  5. 5Missing Girl (2018)Missing Girl (2018)Published 1 Jan 2018Anna returns after her mother's death and confronts the disappearance of her older sister Gabriella thirty years earlier. Sorting through a home becomes a return to memories formed by a child who could not understand everything she saw. Quintana keeps the family's grief and the wish to escape it…0i
  6. 6The Searcher (2020)The Searcher (2020) 7.8/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2020A retired Chicago detective seeking a quiet life in rural Ireland is pressed by a young neighbour to find a missing brother. Cal Hooper has to learn which local accounts are reliable, and what it costs someone to contradict the village's accepted version. The unhurried pace lets practical work and…0i
  7. 7Force of nature (2018)Force of nature (2018) 7.3/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2018Five colleagues begin a corporate wilderness hike and only four return. Missing Alice Russell is also a source in federal investigator Aaron Falk's financial case, so the work and private versions of her life cannot be separated cleanly. The terrain supplies immediate danger while the women's…0i
  8. 8Exiles (2023)Exiles (2023) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2023A year after Kim Gillespie vanished from a South Australian festival, the people who knew her gather for a family celebration. Aaron Falk notices how readily an explanation can become accepted when everyone believes someone else knew her best. Harper gives the search a lived social setting of…0
  9. 9The God of the Woods (2024)The God of the Woods (2024) 7.3/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2024In 1975, a girl disappears from the Adirondack summer camp owned by her wealthy family, which has already lost another child. The search moves between campers, employees, investigators and relatives whose authority is very unequal. Moore gradually restores particular people to a story that could…0
  10. 10Long Bright River (2020)Long Bright River (2020) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2020A Philadelphia police officer searches for her estranged sister as women are being murdered in the neighbourhood. Childhood scenes keep Kacey's life from being defined solely by addiction, while Mickey's anxiety complicates the professional role she is trying to maintain. Choose this for the…0