Missing Person

Remarkably Bright Creatures

Shelby Van Pelt · Literary Fiction

After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night cleaner shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium.

found family · coming of age · missing person · cozy vibes

The God of the Woods

Liz Moore · Mystery & Thriller

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk.

psychological thriller · missing person · multiple timelines · twist ending · cat and mouse

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Holly Jackson · Mystery & Thriller

Everyone is talking about A Good Girl's Guide to Murder!

psychological thriller · twist ending · missing person · unreliable narrator · coming of age

The Storm

Rachel Hawkins · Mystery & Thriller

St. Medard's Bay, Alabama, is famous for three things: the deadly hurricanes that regularly sweep into town; the Rosalie Inn, a century-old hotel…

psychological thriller · closed circle · small town · missing person

Across the Vanishing Sky

Catherine Cowles · Mystery & Thriller

Braedyn Winslow never expected to return to Starlight Grove-the town that took everything from her.

missing person · coming of age · small town · trauma recovery

The Girls Before

Kate Alice Marshall · Mystery & Thriller

A search & rescue expert. A kidnapped woman. The lost girls who haunt them both. “A superb mystery. . . Readers will be thinking about this long…

psychological thriller · trauma recovery · missing person · twist ending

The Ghostwriter

Julie Clark · Mystery & Thriller

**June, 1975.** The Taylor family shatters in a single night when two teenage siblings are found dead in their own home.

psychological thriller · cat and mouse · twist ending · missing person

Pretty Girls

Karin Slaughter · Mystery & Thriller

More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia's teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace.

psychological thriller · missing person · twist ending · revenge plot

The Bone Queen

Will Shindler · Horror

A chilling horror-thriller debut where a mother's search for her missing daughter battles against the shadows of a historic, dangerous legend.

gothic atmosphere · missing person · paranormal romance

The Fourth Princess

Janie Chang · Literary Fiction

From the internationally bestselling author of The Porcelain Moon comes a haunting Gothic novel set in 1911 China.

gothic atmosphere · historical fiction · missing person · psychological thriller · haunted setting

Long Time Gone

Charlie Donlea · Mystery & Thriller

On the first day of an elite two-year fellowship, Sloan Hastings receives a research assignment in the emerging field of forensic genealogy.

psychological thriller · missing person · small town · political intrigue · cat and mouse

The Midnight Muse

Jo Kaplan · Horror

When a metal band's lead singer vanishes in the woods, the mushrooms in the forest might know more than they're letting on in this mycelium-metal…

survival · missing person · cosmic horror

All That We See or Seem

Ken Liu · Sci-Fi

Julia Z, a young woman who gained notoriety at fourteen as the “orphan hacker,” is trying to live a life of digital obscurity in a Boston suburb.

psychological thriller · time travel · missing person · high stakes survival

The Reappearance of Rachel Price

Holly Jackson · Mystery & Thriller

18-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance.

psychological thriller · missing person · twist ending · coming of age

The Trap

Catherine Ryan Howard · Mystery & Thriller

From award-winning, internationally bestselling crime writer Catherine Ryan Howard comes The Trap: an unsettling mystery inspired by a series of…

psychological thriller · missing person · cat and mouse · twist ending

The Missing Half

Ashley Flowers · Mystery & Thriller

Nicole Monroe is in a rut. At twenty-four, she lives alone in a tiny apartment in her hometown in Indiana, she's just gotten a DWI, and she works the…

missing person · found family · revenge plot

Heartwood

Amity Gaige · Mystery & Thriller

Deep in the Maine woods, an experienced hiker goes missing.

psychological thriller · survival · missing person · trauma recovery

Ruthless Vows

Rebecca Ross · Fantasy

Iris has returned home bruised and heartbroken from the front, but the war is far from over.

slow burn · forbidden romance · found family · quest · missing person

The Coworker

Freida McFadden · Mystery & Thriller

**Two women. An office filled with secrets. One terrible crime that can't be taken back.** Dawn Schiff is strange. At least, everyone thinks so at…

psychological thriller · unreliable narrator · cat and mouse · missing person

The Last Thing He Told Me

Laura Dave · Mystery & Thriller

**The "page-turning, exhilarating" (PopSugar) and "heartfelt thriller" (Real Simple) about a woman who thinks she's found the love of her life—until…

psychological thriller · missing person · cat and mouse · twist ending

You've Reached Sam

Dustin Thao · Literary Fiction

Seventeen-year-old Julie has her future all planned out—move out of her small town with her boyfriend Sam, attend college in the city, spend a summer…

coming of age · trauma recovery · magical realism · small town · missing person

Pinky Swear

Danielle Girard · Mystery & Thriller

From Danielle Girard, the USA TODAY bestselling author who “effortlessly ratchets up the tension” (J.T.

psychological thriller · missing person · high stakes survival

Fox

Joyce Carol Oates · Mystery & Thriller

An “enthralling” (Los Angeles Times) and “remarkably engrossing” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) novel of literary and…

psychological thriller · missing person · cat and mouse · unreliable narrator

Something Wicked

Craig Conrad · Mystery & Thriller

Leighann Baker, Paige Harper's roommate, asks Paul Rice to find her cousin.

psychological thriller · missing person · cat and mouse

The Things We Cannot Say

Kelly Rimmer · Literary Fiction

In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war.

historical fiction · trauma recovery · missing person · survival

The Secret Book of Flora Lea

Patti Callahan Henry · Literary Fiction

"When a woman stumbles across a mysterious children's book, long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood spent in the English…

historical fiction · coming of age · missing person · trauma recovery · multiple timelines

Forget Me Not

Stacy Willingham · Mystery & Thriller

Twenty-two years ago, Claire Campbell’s older sister, Natalie, disappeared shortly after her eighteenth birthday.

psychological thriller · missing person · revenge plot

Whispers of the Lake

Shanora Williams · Mystery & Thriller

A marriage on the rocks, a missing friend, and a tangle of shocking lies converge at a peaceful North Carolina lakefront cottage in this irresistibly…

psychological thriller · twist ending · missing person

Where He Left Me

Nicole Baart · Mystery & Thriller

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER From Nicole Baart, the bestselling author of Everything We Didn’t Say, comes a twisty, atmospheric novel about a newlywed…

missing person · psychological thriller · trauma recovery

The Last Time I Lied

Riley Sager · Mystery & Thriller

"In the new novel from the bestselling author of Final Girls, The Last Time I Lied follows a young woman as she returns to her childhood summer camp…

psychological thriller · unreliable narrator · missing person · twist ending

The Missing Ones

A. R. Torre · Mystery & Thriller

In an exclusive and close-knit community, the secrets of the past threaten to destroy three women in a shocking novel of suspense by New York Times…

psychological thriller · closed circle · missing person · twist ending

Forget You Saw Her

Noelle W. Ihli · Mystery & Thriller

Inspired by true events, Forget You Saw Her is the pulse-pounding standalone prequel to the international bestselling, BookTok sensation Ask for…

missing person · revenge plot · trauma recovery · psychological thriller · survival

Then She Was Gone

Lisa Jewell · Mystery & Thriller

"Ten years after her teenage daughter disappears, a woman crosses paths with a charming single father whose young child feels eerily familiar, in…

psychological thriller · missing person · trauma recovery

Such a Clever Girl

Darby Kane · Mystery & Thriller

Darby Kane, author of the #1 international bestseller Pretty Little Wife, returns with a gripping domestic thriller in which a family goes missing…

psychological thriller · missing person · revenge plot · twist ending

Holly

Stephen King · Mystery & Thriller

When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case.

psychological thriller · missing person · cat and mouse · revenge plot

Her One Regret

Donna Freitas · Mystery & Thriller

When successful Rhode Island real estate agent Lucy Mendoza vanishes, leaving her baby behind in a grocery store parking lot, the news quickly makes…

psychological thriller · missing person · twist ending · trauma recovery

That Which Feeds Us

Keala Kendall · Horror

A native Hawaiian teen travels to a luxury island resort in search of her missing twin and uncovers the dark side of paradise, in this YA…

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · missing person · psychological thriller

Waiting On A Friend

TJ Leng · Mystery & Thriller

Paytonville is usually such a quiet town - one of those places where nothing much ever happens to trouble the good folk who live there: the sun beats…

psychological thriller · small town · missing person · cat and mouse

House of Margins

Tlotlo Tsamaase · Mystery & Thriller

Serial the podcast meets The Other Black Girl in a haunted house, as young African author disappears after being invited to an exclusive writing…

missing person · psychological thriller · coming of age · closed circle · haunted setting

Middle of the Night

Riley Sager · Mystery & Thriller

The worst thing to ever happen on Hemlock Circle occurred in Ethan Marsh’s backyard.

psychological thriller · missing person · cat and mouse

Monday's Not Coming

Tiffany D. Jackson · Mystery & Thriller

Monday Charles is missing, and only Claudia seems to notice.

missing person · psychological thriller · trauma recovery · unreliable narrator