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Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Best friends Heather and Brenda find their vow to keep a dark secret tested by the disappearance of their friend—the second girl to vanish in a week—which causes Heather to search for answers on her own, soon discovering that no one is who they seem to be—and she’s next.
Author
Series
Paul Janson novels volume 2
Publisher
Vision
Pub. Date
2012, c2012
Language
English
Description
Ex-assassin Paul Janson teams up with sharpshooter Jessica Kincaid to rescue a doctor abducted by African pirates in international waters, but the two realize there are larger forces at work when their rescue mission goes awry.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After a young man from the poorest part of Trinidad goes missing during the end of British colonialism, a farmhand is offered a generous stipend to become a watchman and determine what happened to the missing man.
444) Deeper
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 2
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
As young archaeologist Will Burrows continues to search for his lost father in the strange underground world he has discovered beneath the city of London, he stumbles across a sinister plot with terrible implications for the world above.
445) Garden of the cursed
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old cursebreaker Marlow Briggs reluctantly pretends to be in love with a powerful noble to gain entry into an illustrious--and deadly--society that holds clues to her mother's disappearance.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 1426 in Joseon, a year after her father vanishes while investigating the disappearance of thirteen girls, eighteen-year-old Min Hwani returns to the island of Jeju to pick up his trail with the help of her estranged sister.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In 1880s New York, Beatrice, unaware of her spiritual gifts, applies for a job at a teashop for female occultists run by Adelaide Thom and Eleanor St. Clair and with their help, she faces down the dark forces lurking in the city.
448) Ghost music: a novel
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A Beijing piano teacher who gave up her career as a concert pianist bonds with her mother-in-law over cooking unexpected parcels of mushrooms that keep arriving in the mail and discovers the sender is a world-famous pianist who disappeared.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After his older brother is killed, David turns to anger and his parents to religion, but just as David's life is beginning to make sense again his parents press him and his sister to join them in cutting worldly ties to prepare for the Rush, when the faithful will be whisked off to heaven.
450) Dear Mr. M: a novel
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A once-celebrated writer whose most famous novel was based on the real-life disappearance of a history teacher who had been having an affair with a student is stalked by an eccentric, seemingly timid neighbor with a mysterious agenda.
451) True crime story
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Zoe Nolan disappeared from Manchester University in 2011. Her story was sad, certainly, but hardly sensational, Joseph Knox thought. As a crime writer, he felt that dead girls were everywhere, and the missing ones just didn't cut it. He wouldn't have given her any more thought were it not for Evelyn Mitchell. Another writer struggling to come up with a new idea, Evelyn attended one of Joseph's publicity events, and she was wondering just what happened...
Author
Series
Nick Flynn novels volume 3
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Russian oligarch Pavel Voronin intends to unleash a new force of advanced stealth aircraft against the U.S. in order to make Moscow supreme and cement his own rise to power, Nick Flynn and his team prepare a risky counterattack deep into hostile territory where failure isn’t an option.
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen years after her mother's disappearance, Josephine, with her future in doubt in a world where witches are real and single women are closely monitored, is offered the opportunity to honor one last request from her mother's will and leaves her regular life to feel connected to her one last time.
454) Reef Road: a novel
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When a severed hand washes ashore in the wealthy enclave of Palm Beach, Florida, the lives of two women--a lonely writer obsessed with the unsolved murder of her mother's best friend and a panicked wife whose husband has disappeared with their children--collide as the world shutters in the pandemic lockdown of 2020.
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
When her career is sidelined by returning male soldiers, World War II correspondent Billie Walker reopens her late father's private investigation agency, only to be swept up in a dangerous missing-persons case.
456) The last laugh
Author
Series
Initial insult volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
As her mind slips deeper into delirium, Tress tries to keep it together long enough to finally find out what happened to her parents, while her cousin prepares to exact revenge on all who have done him wrong – including Tress.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Teen
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Helen Commanda is found dead just outside Thunder Creek, Ontario. Her murder goes unremarked, except for the fact that it may shed light on the earlier disappearance of Chloe Shaughnessy. Chloe's best friend Jenny begins looking for answers about Helen's life and death, trying to understand larger questions about her town and her best friend.
458) See her die
Author
Series
Bree Taggert volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After a homeless teenager insists she saw her friend shot in a closed campground, new sheriff Bree Taggert investigates despite the absence of a victim or blood.
459) A treacherous tale
Author
Series
Cambridge bookshop mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Arriving at author Iona York’s cottage to convince her to participate in a reading at her family’s bookshop, Molly Kimball is instead confronted by the dead body of one of Iona’s acquaintances and must figure out what happened before someone rewrites the ending of a sweet story.
Author
Series
Marshall Grade novels volume 1
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A former NYPD officer living in the witness protection program becomes involved in a search for a missing, local New Mexico woman despite the fact that the Mafia wants him dead and has hired a hitman to find him.
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