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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl’s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down. Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Calista Wynn will lose her ability to speak with the dead on her thirteenth birthday. And with only a few weeks left, children have started going missing. When Calista meets The Tall Lady--an angry spirit with a grudge against Calista, her family, and the entire town--she knows she's found the ghost responsible for the disappearances. It's up to Calista, the only one who can see The Tall Lady, to stop her. If she doesn't, Calista won't...
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English
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"A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years. July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things. Our Queen of Twists, bestselling author of Daisy Darker and Rock Paper Scissors Alice Feeney, returns with another thrilling mystery filled with drama and her trademark surprises. Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering the truth. Edith...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
At a truck stop near Las Vegas, fourteen-year-old Riley Jarrett vanishes from her family's RV, turning their cross-country dream of starting over into a nightmare. Detectives pursue every chilling lead as all eyes fall to the newly blended family with a tragic past. With the clock ticking down on the likelihood that Riley is alive, suspicions run deep. Everyone, from Riley's mom to her stepdad to her stepbrother and her ex-boyfriend, has something...
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English
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In 1945 Malaya, when her family is in terrible danger due to a choice she made 10 years earlier, Cecily Alcantara, who was lured into a life of espionage for the invading Japanese forces during World War II, finds her actions catching up with her and will do anything to save those she loves.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Nicky has disappeared! Oliva, Leo, and Gracie--three seventh graders who have very little in common except for how much they dislike Nicky, the school bully--were the last ones to see him. They are sure that there are clues the police are overlooking. And they each have their own secret reason for needing to find him as soon as possible. As they investigate, they discover that things are more complicated than they had seemed. Nicky's victims made...
Author
Series
Detective Kay Sharp volume 5
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Kay Sharp investigates when ex-husband Brian is accused of murdering her former best friend, Rachel, and discovers the woman's eight-year-old daughter is missing" --
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Language
English
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"Welcome to Stanhope. A safe neighborhood. A place for families. On the surface, William Wooler is a family man. But he's been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper. Hours later, Avery's family declares her missing. Suddenly Stanhope doesn't...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Last summer, they searched for Audrey Covington. This summer, they'll search for the truth. Paige Redmond has always felt lucky to spend her summers in Clearwater Ridge, sunning at the waterfalls and partying at the mansions of the rich vacationers there. One night, Audrey didn't come home. Though Audrey wasn't the first girl to disappear in Clearwater Ridge, she left behind more lies than clues. Now, one summer later, her case has gone cold, and...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A group of people, still traumatized by the disappearance of three young boys in the 1970s, converge in a small Wisconsin town after a chain of random events culminates in violence and reveals long-buried secrets.
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Madi returns to her hometown and reconnects with an ex from high school, now known locally for his refusal to give up looking for his infant son who has been missing for years. As Madi gets drawn into the search, she begins to see visions that lead to disturbing revelations about the real story of the boy's disappearance"--
15) Tapestry of love
Author
Series
New directions volume 2
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Susan Lapp is back in Lancaster and ready to begin a serious relationship with Levi Yoder. After all the ups and downs of her time out west, it's good to be back in the familiar routines of church, family, and working at the market and housecleaning. Nothing stays simple for long, though, and Susan finds herself trying to help her sister Kate navigate her complicated and painful marriage that is taking a toll on their entire family"--
16) Possess me
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Kaden should leave the Manor alone. Everyone else knows to avoid the old, burned down mansion left abandoned in the woods. But Kaden is curious. Too curious. Or maybe Kaden is drawn there by something sinister. Because once the house has a hold, Kaden can't remember hours out of each day. Almost as if Kaden's life has been... taken over. And at the same time, other kids in town have started to go missing..."--cover.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Set in November 1918 on the opulent, castle-like island estate of the eccentric millionaire Claude Arkel, a young couple settle in as guests on Prosper Island. They find themselves quarantined in a shabby outpost far from Mr. Arkel's mansion - from which they learn three girls had gone missing. After she encounters a figure in the woods that may be the ghost of her long-lost friend Mary, Anna Filing Fort resolves to find out who Mr. Arkel really is,...
Author
Series
Detective Kay Sharp volume 3
Publisher
Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a sleepy mountain town a widowed mother is brutally killed in front of her three daughters, and the oldest, a 16-year-old, is missing. Three suitcases found in the hallway make it clear that the family was about to run away. Who were they trying to escape? Turning the town upside down, Detective Kay Sharp discovers that it is home to a serial killer who preys on helpless girls.
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Language
English
Description
It's paradise for the super-rich, but hell for the girls whose lives they've stolen 1985 To twelve-year-old Mercedes, La Kastellana is home, an island with deep-rooted traditions untouched by the modern world. But this secluded paradise is upended with the arrival of multimillionaire Matthew Meade and his pampered young daughter, Tatiana. While the Meades lavishly spread unimaginable wealth around La Kastellana, the price Mercedes and the rest of...
20) The toy taker
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"D.I. Sean Corrigan might have a tiny new office at Scotland Yard and a huge new beat--all of London--but the job is the same. His team has a knack for catching the sickest criminals on either side of the Thames, thanks in large part to Corrigan's uncanny ability to place himself inside the mind of a predator. But he just can't get a read on this new case. Four-year-old George Bridgeman went to sleep in his bedroom in a leafy London suburb ... and...