5 New Haunting Thrillers That Center Around a Hunt for Missing Persons
By Mary Kay McBrayer
If you’re looking for novels about missing persons cases, look no further: here are five new(ish) release thrillers that hunt people who have disappeared.
Malamar Veracruz has worked at building a life in El Valle for years. She raised two daughters here while she tried to forget the unexplained disappearance of her own sister. Now, another girl has gone missing. Mal hunts for answers, and she’s plagued by visions of the local legend, the horse-headed woman… she has to follow the visions through to find out what’s happening before more girls vanish.
Natalie Campbell disappeared twenty-two years ago. Days after, her blood was found in a car, a man was arrested, and everyone moved on. Including her younger sister, Claire. Now, Claire’s father has unexpectedly called her back home, and while she’s languishing in her hometown, she takes a seasonal job at Galloway Farm. It seems like a mini-retreat until she happens upon an old diary that gradually includes details of various cold cases… and Claire thinks her sister’s disappearance could be related.
Format
Hardcover
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It’s small-town North Falls, the kind of town that doesn’t see much crime. Until two teenage girls disappear while the whole town is distracted by the fireworks show. Officer Emmy Clifton is responsible for finding them and bringing them back, not only because it’s her job, but because her best friend’s daughter asked her for help, and she turned her away. Now she has to comb through the puzzle in the girls’ wake, and uncover everyone’s secrets in the process.
Format
Hardcover
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Beckett Bowery has strong roots in the mountain college town of Wyatt Valley, Virginia. Her parents taught at the college, and she studied there, but she hasn’t been back since her senior year. That’s the year that two local men turned up dead, and her roommate fully vanished. Now, Beckett’s daughter has secretly applied to Wyatt College and plans to attend on a full scholarship. Beckett knows the town has a long memory, and she has to keep her daughter safe from the danger she knows awaits her.
Format
Trade Cloth; Trade Cloth
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As a fingerprints analyst, Shaw Connolly is among the first on the scene of many crimes, but the one that haunts her is the disappearance of her little sister sixteen years ago. As the years pass, Shaw grows more obsessed with finding Thea—or at least the truth of what happened to her. Her obsession is driving away her husband and affecting her relationship with her sons, especially when she takes phone calls from one Anders Jansen. This stranger seems to know too much about the crime, and about her, and Shaw gets closer to answers at the same pace as his stalking escalates.
Format
Hardcover
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