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2001) Vanishing Falls: a novel
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
404, 13 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Deep within the lush Tasmanian rainforest is the remote town of Vanishing Falls, a place with a storied past. The town's showpiece, built in the 1800s, is its Calendar House--currently occupied by Jack Lily, a prominent art collector and landowner; his wife, Celia; and their four daughters. The elaborate, eccentrically designed mansion houses one masterpiece and 52 rooms--and Celia Lily isn't in any of them. She has vanished without a trace... Joelle...
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In 1935, nine-year-old George Weyerhaeuser, heir to one of the wealthiest families in America, is snatched off the streets two blocks from his home. The boy is kept manacled in a pit, chained to a tree, and locked in a closet. The perps-a career bank robber, a petty thief, and his nineteen-year-old never-been-in-trouble Mormon wife-quickly become the targets of the biggest manhunt in Northwest history. The caper plays out like a Hollywood thriller...
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The biggest crime story in American history began on the night of March 1, 1932, when the twenty-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was snatched from his crib in Hopewell, New Jersey. The news shocked a nation enthralled with the aviator, the first person to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic. American law enforcement marshalled all its resources to return "Little Lindy" to the arms of his parents-and perhaps even more energized were the...
2004) Last night
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"During a blizzard in Rhode Island, a renowned artist is found murdered and her young daughter gone missing, plunging Detective Conor Reid, his brother Tom and the woman's grieving sister into a chilling investigation"--
2005) Acceptance
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Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 19 cm.
Description
It is winter in Area X. A new team embarks across the border on a mission to find a member of a previous expedition who may have been left behind. As they press deeper into the unknown, navigating new terrain and new challenges, the threat to the outside world becomes more daunting.
2006) King NYX: a novel
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Reimagines the life of Anna Filing Fort, wife of the most famous researcher of "anomalous phenomena" as she searches for three missing girls and encounters a ghost in the woods on Prosper Island at the estate of an eccentric millionaire.
2007) A map of the dark
Author
Series
Searchers (Karen Ellis) volume 1
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Racing against time to find a teenage girl who has gone missing from Queens, FBI agent Elsa Myers navigates a frustrating series of false leads while enduring the collapse of her own carefully compartmentalized world.
2008) Southern storm
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Series
Cape Refuge series volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
374 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Description
When Case arrives at her best friend Drea's isolated West Texas home and finds her missing, she embarks on a search for clues about Drea's disappearance while facing the unsettling, cult-like and possibly murderous behavior of Drea's roommates.
2010) Axiomatic
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Description
How to speak of the searing, unpindownable power that the past-ours, our family's, our culture's-wields in the present?
Drawing on nine years of research, Axiomatic explores the ways we understand the traumas we inherit and the systems that sustain them. In five sections-each one built on an axiom about how the past affects the present-Tumarkin weaves together true and intimate stories of a community dealing with the extended aftermath of a suicide,...
2011) Spy Runner
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Formats
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It's 1953 and the Cold War is on. Communism threatens all that the United States stands for, and America needs every patriot to do their part. So when a Russian boarder moves into the home of twelve-year-old Jake McCauley, he's on high alert. What does the mysterious Mr. Shubin do with all that photography equipment? And why did he choose to live so close to the air force base? Mr. Shubin says he knew Jake's dad, who went missing in action during...
2013) Tonight I said goodbye
Author
Series
Lincoln Perry mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When an alleged suicide victim's wife and six-year-old daughter go missing, private investigator Lincoln Perry and his partner, Joe Pritchard, pursue a theory that the man was actually murdered.
2014) A confession
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When 22 year old Sian O'Callaghan goes missing after a Friday night out with friends, Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher quickly realizes that this is no ordinary missing persons case. A prime suspect is identified but when Fulcher questions him about Sian's whereabouts it sets both men on a journey which will change their lives forever as well as reveal the fate of Sian and another local girl, Becky Godden-Edwards. In this fight to get justice...
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"When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it's not good news. Her husband has been missing for two days. Rebus fears the worst - and knows from his lifetime in the police that his daughter will be the prime suspect. He wasn't the best father - the job always came first - but now his daughter needs him more than ever. But is he going as a father or a detective? As he leaves at dawn to drive to the windswept coast - and...
2016) Heartwood box
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Publisher
TOR Teen
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"In this tiny, terrifying town, the lost are never found. When Araceli Flores Harper is sent to live with her great-aunt Ottilie in her ramshackle Victorian home, the plan is simple. She'll buckle down and get ready for college. Life won't be exciting, but she'll cope, right? Wrong. From the start, things are very, very wrong. Her great-aunt still leaves food for the husband who went missing twenty years ago, and local businesses are plastered with...
2017) Seven girls gone
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Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2023.
Physical Desc
440 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
For three years, women have been disappearing--and eventually turning up dead in the small bayou town of St. Augustine, Louisiana. Police detective Beau Hebert is the only one who seems to care, but with every witness quickly silenced and a corrupt police department set on keeping the cases unsolved, Beau's investigation stalls at every turn. With nobody else to trust, Beau calls in a favor from his friend on the FBI's Mobile Response Team. While...
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Series
Enola Holmes mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Enola Holmes, now independent and pursuing her profession as a scientific perditorian, joins forces with her brother Sherlock to solve the mysterious disappearance of Wolcott Balestier, a friend of Rudyard Kipling, as they uncover the ruthless world of book publishing and seek to bring him back safely.
2019) Stormy weather
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
434 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Two honeymooners at a hotel in the Florida Keys are at the center of a chaotic adventure that brings together a seductive con artist, a shotgun-toting mobile home salesman, a law school dropout, a Gaboon viper, and a troop of storm-shocked monkeys.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xiii, 338 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"One of the most notorious and bizarre mysteries of the Edwardian age, for readers who loved The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher. At the close of the Victorian era, as now, privacy was power. The extraordinarily wealthy 5th Duke of Portland had a mania for it, hiding in his horsedrawn carriage and creating tunnels between buildings to avoid being seen. So when, in 1897, an elderly widow asked the court to exhume the grave of her late father-in-law, T.C....
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