missing children

Both haunted and inspired by the shadow of his best friend, Melanie, since her disappearance and presumed death when they were six, Richard, now sixteen, is completely unprepared when a new classmate, Melanie, arrives at Savannah Arts Academy High School claiming to be that same friend.

While on a dig at Norwich Castle, forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway uncovers the bones of Mother Hook, a serial killer who was executed in 1867 for the murder of five children, while DCI Harry Nelson investigates a serial child-abductor called the Childminder.

Jack Reacher arrives in a Nebraska town and becomes suspicious of the Duncans, a controlling local clan, when he starts work on the unsolved case of a missing child and uncovers the Duncans involvement in a criminal food chain.

A girl finds herself running through the forest at the edge of a village with no memory of anything, even her own name, and later learns that she might be twelve-year-old Isabelle, believed to be stolen by a witch six years before.

Seventeen-year-old Lauren has visions of girls her own age who are gone without a trace, but while she tries to understand why they are speaking to her and whether she is next, Lauren has a brush with death and a shocking truth emerges, changing everything.

On the first day of vacation, thirteen-year-old Davey Tsering wakes up early, slips out of his family's hotel room without telling anyone, and heads to the beach for a swim in the warm Floridia waters--and a fateful meeting with a shark.

After Missy is abducted during a vacation and evidence of her murder shows up at a shack in the forests of Oregon, Mackenzie Philips, her father, receives a strange note inviting him to return to the scene of the tragedy where he wrestles with nightmarish religious questions.

Nine-year-old Katie Mackey, the daughter of the most affluent family in a small Indiana town, disappears one night while riding her bike to the library, throwing the town into turmoil.

Leslie and her ex-husband are constantly fighting over how to raise their son Ian, but when Ian disappears with his young stepsister, Leslie's ex believes Ian has kindnapped the girl, but Leslie suspects their disappearance is linked to a series of child murders that occurred in the area years before.

Thirty-one-year-old Celia, having blocked out circumstances involving the disappearance of her best friend and rival Djuna twenty years earlier, realizes that in order to move forward in her relationship with her longtime boyfriend, Huck, she must return home and confess the truth, but when her family and friends do not believe her she must find another way to prove what happened.