Missing Person Fiction

Eighteen-year-old runaway, Vanessa Phillips, knows a secret…and the secret knows her—knows where she sleeps and where she eats on the streets of Pacific Beach in San Diego, California.Crooked Las Vegas politician Harry Olivetti is willing to kill in order to protect this secret, and his two hired assassins are closing in leaving Vanessa nowhere left to run.To a city by the sea—where the world flocks for sun, sand and surf—comes legendary FBI missing persons consultant, Jake Moriarity…a lost soul in a desperate search to find this lost girl. Moriarity can save her, but first, he ...

With his niece Cassie still reeling from a personal tragedy, Jake Moriarty takes her on a cross country trip. Their destination, his late mother’s hometown, Acacia Grove, South Carolina. It’s a good plan. Miles and miles of road with little else to do but talk, relax and enjoy the scenery and discover his roots in this all-American small town, complete with Southern charm and friendly citizens. Just what Cassie needs to recover from her great grief. What could possibly go wrong? They soon discover that just below the surface of apparent calm and civility lurks a monstrous evil that will...

Maggie Gilbert and her children, Jack and Alice, live a pretty normal life. That is, until Maggie starts looking into her family tree. In doing so, she uncovers a dark mystery that endangers her children. She has to solve the mystery in the past, if she is to save her family in the present. Together with a fellow genealogist, Zelah, Maggie unearths more and more details about the drowning of a small girl and the unsolved disappearance of Maggie's ancestor.

Zeno Mayfield's daughter has disappeared into the night, gone missing in the wilds of the Adirondacks. But when the community of Carthage joins a father's frantic search for the girl, they discover the unlikeliest of suspects…a decorated Iraq War veteran with close ties to the Mayfield family. As grisly evidence mounts against the troubled war hero, the family must wrestle with the possibility of having lost a daughter forever. Carthage plunges us deep into the psyche of a wounded young corporal haunted by unspeakable acts of wartime aggression.

How can you become a more successful manager, a stronger team leader, and a motivator who gets the best results from a group? Ken Blanchard and Marc Muchnick's The Leadership Pill provides the answer. Their entertaining and inspiring new book is a parable about the competition between two leaders with totally different management styles - a story that reveals the ingredients of truly effective leadership.

A cold night in Korea, 80 klicks from the DMZ. War hero Caleb Henderson is searching for his missing son. Warrant Officer Frank Trinity is willing to help him, but another G.I. is in big trouble. And his trouble can't wait. In a case from his days before Tucson, this is Trinity's kind of trouble.

Over 500 pages of thrilling Bigfoot and Sasquatch encounters! The Big Bigfoot Book: Volume 6 is a captivating anthology of 100 Bigfoot encounter stories drawn from my book series, What Lurks Beyond, Encounters in the Woods, and Fear in the Forest. This collection brings together the most intriguing and persuasive eyewitness accounts of meetings with the elusive creature known as Bigfoot, spanning various rugged and remote regions of North America. Each narrative offers a vivid exploration of this legendary figure, blending mystery, fear, and fascination to challenge our perceptions of the ...

Volume 1 of When Darkness Falls: Terrifying True Stories sets the stage for an enthralling journey into the heart of darkness, where the line between myth and reality blurs. This initial collection introduces readers to a chilling array of encounters that defy rational explanation, each story a thread in the tapestry of the unknown. The volume opens with a gripping narrative of a group of hikers in the Pacific Northwest who come face-to-face with Bigfoot, the legendary giant of the forest. Their harrowing experience, marked by an overwhelming sense of being watched and an inexplicable ...

When Kelsey Hart disappeared three years ago, her older sister, Brit, never gave up hope. But as time passed, and she heard nothing from her sister, she knew she needed help. Enter PI Harry Starke, the man with a reputation for solving the impossible cases. As Harry digs into Kelsey’s disappearance, he quickly realizes that nothing is as it seems. Slowly, he uncovers dark secrets and a web of lies that will shake the Hart family to its core. And with every clue he uncovers, the mystery deepens, and people begin to die.

DI Joe Faraday is called to the scene of a brutal death: the remains of a body have been chained to the railway line at Buriton tunnel, just north of Havant. Faraday has no name and no obvious leads to follow. DC Paul Winter is ordered to trawl through the missing persons list and comes across a missing man he suspects has fallen victim to foul play. Two men, one dead, one missing. Two detectives looking for them. Two stories entangled in the most bizarre and compelling ways.

She was supposed to be the perfect mother—until the night everything went wrong. When Peyton Hayes survives a horrifying car crash with her six-year-old son, she awakens to a living nightmare: a year of her memories erased, a nagging suspicion that she wasn’t alone in the car, and cryptic warnings scrawled on slips of paper. Everyone insists her life is flawless—her ex-husband suddenly wants back in, her best friend is eerily devoted, and her son flinches whenever she asks about that fateful night. But Peyton’s half-glimpsed flashbacks scream that something far darker lurks beneath ...

A woman goes missing in the woods; a man from her past goes looking; he finds that people aren’t the only ones who commit murder—places do it too. Tim Kitchens can’t let things go. It’s one of the reasons the exes keep piling up in his life: ex-prosecutor, ex-husband, ex-homeowner. That last one has brought him here, back to the Pacific Northwest, back to the house he grew up in and the small town that raised him. His friends are still around, but the girlfriend he left behind is gone—missing for five years. Something about it won’t let him go. He searches for her, and the new ...

For the last decade, Nina Hazlitt has been ready to hear the worst about her daughter's disappearance. But with no sightings, no body, and no suspect, the police investigation ground to a halt long ago, and Nina's pleas to the cold case department have led her nowhere. Until she meets the newest member of the team: former Detective John Rebus. Rebus has never shied away from lost causes - one of the many ways he managed to antagonize his bosses when he was on the force. Now he's back as a retired civilian, reviewing abandoned files.

When Darkness Falls: Terrifying True Stories: Volume 3 ventures further into the abyss, presenting a curated selection of encounters that challenge the boundaries of the known. The stories range from a harrowing night in a secluded cabin where a group encounters a malevolent spirit that refuses to let them leave, to the desolate roads where travelers come across the phantom hitchhiker, a figure that vanishes as mysteriously as it appears, leaving behind a cold trail of dread.

Family advocate Nora McTavish is settling into her new practice when she receives a call from Tess Grayson, a childhood friend she hasn’t spoken to in years. Tess is entangled in a custody battle with her ex-husband, Neil, a popular professor at a local university. It’s getting vicious—and dangerous. Rumors are swirling of Neil’s affairs with students, one of whom was found bludgeoned to death. Though the charges against him were dropped, Tess doesn’t want the man anywhere near their nine-year-old daughter.

The forest holds many mysteries, both terrifying and unexplained. Mysteries in the Forest is an anthology series by bestselling author Erik Lake, known for his works like Things in the Woods and Beyond the Path. This series delves into true personal encounters experienced by individuals in woods and forests, exploring a range of mysterious and often terrifying entities. Each episode focuses on a different creature or phenomenon, ranging from widely known cryptids like Bigfoot and the Dogman, to more obscure and chilling entities like skinwalkers and demons. Through gripping narratives and ...

A cryptic death bed utterance that leaves Tommy Marshall, bassist for the Aaron Perry Trio, wondering whether Helen, his wife of thirty-five years, had been having an affair behind his back as her last words seemed to indicate.A man on the run, who runs right into the middle of the Russian mob, and their most ruthless assassin, carrying with him a secret that could bring down their entire West Coast human trafficking operation.A life hanging in the balance as Cassandra Harvey struggles to help her husband, Michael, recover from a series of blood clots, and needing her uncle by her side more...

Fern seeks refuge from her mother’s pill-popping and boyfriends via Soul Train; Gwen finds salvation in the music of Prince much to her congregation’s dismay; and Jessenia, miles ahead of her classmates at her gifted and talented high school, is a brainy and precocious enigma. None of this matter to Boss Man, the monster who abducts them and holds them captive in a dilapidated house in Queens. On the night they are finally rescued, throngs line the block gawking and claiming ignorance.

The house in Caulfield Place, off Browning Street in Walworth, was haunted, or at least that's what the street kids said. So when two men, a woman and a parrot moved in, everyone was very interested, especially 14-year-old Cassie Ford, who was particularly fascinated by the parrot. And it was just about this time that Mr Finch, Chinese Lady's husband and Boots's stepfather began to get mysterious telephone calls. Mr Finch had never told the rest of the Adams family - except for Boots - the secrets of his past, or what kind of work he did for the government.

When Jonny went missing everything changed. His mother's heart is full of terror and sadness instead of joy. His father's study overflows with newspaper cuttings and profiles on missing people instead of the academic texts that were there before. His sister, once carefree, now carries the weight of the world on her shoulders. His bedroom at home remains untouched and ready for his return. The hands on the clock continue to turn and yet Jonny hasn't returned. Where is he?