Missing Persons Found

Five thousand dollars. One night. Pretend to be a stranger's wife. June Marlowe has played a hundred forgettable roles. But when she's hired to impersonate a missing woman at a family gathering in a private hospital wing, she walks into a performance with no script and no way out. As the night spirals, June realizes she wasn't hired to save a marriage. She was hired to bury a secret. And the woman she's pretending to be is still in the building. Because in this family, inconvenient people don't disappear. They get stored.

In Afghanistan, a US pilot is shot down during a covert mission. In New York, a mother is forced to flee with her two young children. Finding the connection between the two will lead the Private team right into a deadly trap. A wealthy businessman approaches Jack Morgan, head of Private—the...

Across history, people have been declared dead—and then returned alive. Some survived illness after death certificates were signed. Others emerged from wars long after their names were entered into casualty lists. Prisoners came home to find themselves officially dead. Patients revived in morgues. Men and women returned to families who had already buried them. The Returned documents real cases in which death was declared too early, too confidently, or by systems unable to reverse their decisions. Drawing on historical records, military archives, court proceedings, and medical ...

Shadows in the Case Files is a chilling collection of first-person true-crime narratives inspired by real public cold-case records. These are the confessions, recollections, and haunted testimonies of people who walked into the edges of unsolved America, and emerged carrying pieces of stories the system left behind. Told with intimate realism, emotional precision, and atmospheric tension, Shadows in the Case Files explores how ordinary lives fracture under extraordinary mysteries. If you love true crime, cold cases, forensic oddities, and emotionally raw storytelling, this collection will ...

Earned Booky Award for Tensest Thriller. Received ACCI Literary Excellence Award for Best Mystery/Thriller. As seen on AP News. "What if a quiet getaway turned into a fight against a predator hiding in the shadows of the redwoods?" Rose Clarke and her search-and-rescue dog, Clive, came to Crescent City for quiet. After the trauma they survived in Minnesota, four days among the redwoods should have meant fog, ocean air, long trails, and rest. But Clive refuses to stay on the path. Hidden inside a carved redwood tree, Rose finds five-year-old Ana alive, injured, and terrified. Ana whispers ...

Psychologist Alan Gregory’s friend and fellow therapist Hannah Grant has died suddenly and mysteriously. The police are baffled, leaving another unsolved homicide in Boulder, Colorado. Only Alan can decipher Hannah’s clues—a quest that will take him to Las Vegas and lead him to question the integrity of those closest to him.

One guest. One room. One twisted secret. After her husband’s sudden death, Kaitlyn Harper is barely hanging on. Grieving, isolated, and drowning in bills, she makes a desperate choice—rent out the guest room of the house they once shared. Rayne Miller seems perfect: quiet, respectful, pays in cash. But as soon as she moves in, strange things start happening. A shattered photo. A door left open. Anonymous texts that say things only her husband could have known. Rayne isn’t just a tenant. She’s a woman with unfinished business. And the closer Kaitlyn gets to the truth, the more she ...

A Christmas mystery. A forgotten family. A miracle waiting fifty years to happen. Addie Michaels is looking forward to a quiet Christmas surrounded by the people she loves. For once, she hopes the holidays will be peaceful—if she can just figure out why Danny has suddenly become so distant and grumpy. But peace never lasts long when Addie’s psychic abilities are involved. When a fifty-year-old missing persons case lands on the Hidden gang’s doorstep, Addie discovers a family’s final chance for a Christmas miracle may be slipping away. A missing boy, a grieving sister, and decades of...

What happens when someone vanishes for years—and then comes home? Lost for Years explores some of the most remarkable real-life missing-person cases ever recorded. From children abducted and raised under different identities to captives rescued after years of imprisonment, these extraordinary stories reveal the resilience of survivors, the determination of families, and the persistence of investigators who refused to give up. Discover the incredible true stories of: Steven Stayner, who escaped after seven years and helped rescue another child. Jaycee Dugard, found alive after eighteen ...

Missing people are far more common than you might think. Every year, around the world, hundreds of thousands of people vanish into thin air. Usually, they have simply been involved in a freak accident that has led to their death. Sometimes, they vanish on purpose and don't wish to be found. On very rare occasions, there is violence at play and the person has been deliberately removed from the public or even killed. In this audiobook, we will be examining the various circumstances in which people happen to vanish.

I am so sorry for your loss. It must be devastating and worrying to discover that your loved one has gone missing. I cannot imagine the shock. There must be so many questions left unanswered. How do you move forward from the heartache of the whole situation? You feel completely traumatized and paralyzed. This audiobook will give an insight into what happens when someone goes missing. How do you cope with the grief, without losing hope? Miracles do happen too. Understanding your feelings and accepting what has happened.

A vanished journalist. A buried secret. And a team on the edge. When the remains of famed investigative reporter Declan Rafferty are unearthed in the haunted depths of Epping Forest, Scotland Yard’s SIU is called in to solve a mystery nearly two decades cold. But what begins as a recovery turns into something far more disturbing. The clues don’t add up. The burial is too deliberate. The story—too tidy. As Dr. Charlie Morrow digs into Rafferty’s past, her instincts whisper that the case was meant to stay buried. But uncovering the truth comes at a cost. Tensions rise within the team ...

Some people vanish without a scream, without a witness, without a trace, yet the evidence they leave behind tells a different story. In this chilling true-crime inspired collection, each disappearance is retold by the one person who saw what others overlooked: the coworker who heard the last metallic clang, the friend who replayed a corrupted voicemail until it whispered truth, the night clerk who watched a door unlock on its own, the surveyor who found bones exactly where someone wanted them to rest. Drawn from real cold-case patterns, public court records, and decades of documented ...

A missing man. A drifting boat. A town that won’t talk. Mara thought she knew this town. But when a fisherman disappears during a storm and his boat turns up drifting where it shouldn’t be, the story doesn’t hold. The more she questions, the quieter the town becomes. Because everyone knows something. And no one is telling the whole truth. As buried secrets begin to surface, Mara uncovers a past tied to a place no one wants to talk about — and a truth that reaches further than anyone expected. Now the question isn’t what happened. It’s how far people will go to keep it hidden. ...

In 2015, the Irish government commissioned an investigation into the state’s network of Mother and Baby Homes after the discovery of a mass grave containing the remains of up to eight hundred children prompted international outrage. The homes, which operated from the 1920s to the 1990s, were responsible for nearly nine thousand child deaths and countless other abuses. Yet in the face of overwhelming evidence, everyone seemed to forget what had actually occurred. No one remembered who the babies were, how they died, or where they were buried.

Steel...smart, aggressive, ironic, spare and cynical...has been content working homicide at the LAPD until his father, the legendary Sheriff Burton Steel, falls ill with Lou Gehrig's disease. Sheriff Steel is headquartered in Freedom, a privileged coastal community located 100 miles north of Los Angeles. His health failing, he asks his son Buddy to come home to cover his back and to groom him to be his successor. Buddy reluctantly agrees. He returns to Freedom despite having outgrown its small town limits, wary of his father's authoritarianism.

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 ...

Your loved one is missing! What can you do? The minutes, hours, days, and even weeks drag by with no word. Imagine living the rest of your life never knowing what happened to them, where they are, if they are even alive!

Volume two is a continuation of the Murders, Mayhem, and Scandals series. As in volume one, it contains stories of people who have disappeared without a trace and are still missing.