by Debbie Babitt

The first female sheriff of a small, remote mountain town investigates the disappearance of a girl, a crime that echoes events that shattered her town decades before, during her childhood.

When a school friend, a shy boy named Bahadur, disappears, Jai, an avid fan of TV crime shows, goes into action. He and his two best friends, a bright girl named Pari and a hardworking boy called Faiz, investigate. Young as they are, they know all too well how little regard the police have for people like them.

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by Lizzy Barber

Anna has never questioned (or broken) her mamma's strict rules.  But on her 18th birthday, she has her first rebellion - a visit to Astroland, a theme park firmly on the forbidden list.  She's never been to Astroland before, so why do so many things look and feel ... familiar?

 

 Daniel Buck is missing.  His frantic mother clings the sight of five little footprints in a cement walk - proof that Daniel existed.  When a "shut eye" psychic offers help, Anna leaps at the chance.  But her meeting with psychic goes off in a direction Anna never saw coming.

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by Kimberly Belle

Kat awakens to a mother's worst nightmare - finding the police on her doorstep to inform her that her son Ethan has disappeared while on class trip.  Stef also has a son on the trip.  So why does Ethan's disappearance have such shattering consequences for Stef?

 

by Rene Denfeld

Naomi is a P.I. who specializes in missing children.  She is The Child Finder.  She has honed her skills, but some of her talent lies in her history - she, too, was once a lost child.

 

by Sharon Doering

Five-year-old Ava Boone has been missing for six months. There are have been no leads, no arrests, no witnesses. The only suspect was quiet, middle-aged Leland Ernest. And Grace Wright has just bought the house next door

by Edwin Hill

Finisterre Island, off the coast of Maine, is beautiful and remote-the kind of place tourists love to visit. But not everyone is welcome. A dilapidated Victorian house has become home to a group of squatters and junkies, and strangers have a habit of bringing trouble. A young boy disappeared during the summer, and though he was found safely, the incident stirred suspicion among locals. Now another child is missing. 

 

by Marlon James

Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy.

by Stephen King

Why are children being kidnapped and being taken to a compound with other abducted children? Why are they housed in windowless rooms that look exactly like the bedrooms in the homes they were snatched from?  And what is that strange ... hum?

 

by Jess Lourey

Cassie's life in 1980s Minnesota seems wholesome.  She lives on a farm, enjoys school, and has a crush on a nice boy.  But the idyllic facade hides strange and shocking secrets.

by Louisa Luna

Jamie is running late taking her children to a birthday party, so she leaves her young daughters in the car while she runs into the store to buy a present.  When she returns, the two girls are nowhere to be found.  

by Felicity McLean

Did the three Van Apfel sisters run away from their strict, religious parents?  Or were they abducted?  Tikka never stopped wondering what happened, and a return to her hometown brings all the memories and questions straight back to the surface.

by Jennifer McMahon

12 year old Lisa tells her brother about a magical door in the woods behind their house that leads to the King of the Fairies.  To become Queen, all she has to do is walk through the door.  And then Lisa disappears.  

by Alex North

It's just a short walk for 6 year old Neil to walk from one parent's house to the other.  He's allowed to travel by himself.  But one day, he disappears en route.  

 

by Heidi Perks

Charlotte took her children and her daughter's best friend to the school fair.  They were having a good time, but suddenly, inexplicably, her children are fine, but Alice, the best friend, is missing.  Alice's mother blames Charlotte, and Charlotte blames herself.

 

by Ian Pisarcik

On the outskirts of a town too tired for its own happenings, the boys were found dead inside a tent. Three years later, their fathers have disappeared, too. Ruth Fenn's son was the boy they blamed.

 

by Lori Roy

On the day a black truck rattles past her house and a Klan flyer lands in her front yard, ten-year-old Beth disappears from her Simmonsville, Georgia, home.  Seven years later, Imogene Coulter comes home to bury her estranged father, a Klan leader with secrets.

 

by Abigail Tarttelin

When Thera's best friend Billie goes missing, everyone assumes she's off on an adventure and will return by nightfall.  But she never returns, except to Thera, in her dreams.  Or are the nightmarish hallucinations real?

 

by Lisa Wingate

Avery is a lawyer, and has uncovered a shocking discovery about her family.  Grandma Judy was apparently a victim of child theft by the Tennessee Children's Home Society.