Books like 'If I Go Missing'
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The Lost Sister by Elle Gray
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe truth will set you free.For FBI Agent Blake Wilder the price of that truth requires the ultimate sacrifice.Blake Wilder lives with reoccurring nightmares from her grim and mysterious past.Fourteen years ago, her entire family was taken from her.Her parents murdered, and her sister taken... -
![No More Lies by Elle Gray]()
No More Lies by Elle Gray
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"MOM?! DAD?!Who would do this?”Sixteen years ago, young Blake Wilder arrived home to find her parents brutally murdered. As the devastated Blake frantically searched her house for her baby sister. She soon realized the young girl was missing, nowhere to be found... -
![The House on the Hill by Elle Gray]()
The House on the Hill by Elle Gray
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen a family of 4 goes missing seemingly in the dead of night, Blake Wilder and her team are called to find the young family and determine the reason for their sudden disappearance.Change is the only constant in life. It’s a lesson FBI Agent Blake Wilder is having to learn all over again. Summoned to DC by a Bureau legend, Blake is excited, imagining big things on the horizon for her team... -
![The Hit List by Elle Gray]()
The Hit List by Elle Gray
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen a deadly bomb goes off in a small town outside of Dallas, FBI agent Blake Wilder and her team are called to the case.Could this crime be a case of terrorism or is it murder disguised within a massive disaster? Soon Blake’s unit discovers a plot that’s far more complex.And when they unearth a revenge plot spurred on by a massive conspiracy... -
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![The Unlucky Girl by Elle Gray]()
The Unlucky Girl by Elle Gray
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn Las Vegas the booze is always flowing, and sinful indulgence is endless.If you’re lucky, a hangover is the only thing you’re left with.But for two unlucky girls the outcome of a simple mix up turns into a case of kidnapping, extortion, and fatal consequences…After finally closing the chapter of Blake’s painful past... -
![Night at the Asylum by Elle Gray]()
Night at the Asylum by Elle Gray
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsYou better watch your back. You better do your best to hide.Because at Whitehorn there are strange forces at play.Someone or something is watching.And the bizarre death within a secured room is only the beginning...Within a short period of time FBI agent Blake Wilder has had to overcome many life altering events... -
![A Time to Die by Elle Grey]()
A Time to Die by Elle Grey
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTick. Tock.When a series of bombings rock the Pacific Northwest, FBI Agent Blake Wilder leaps into action.The investigation though, brings her back into contact with an ATF agent she has clashed violently with in the past.Their theories clash as hard as their personalities and Blake opts to run her own concurrent investigation. What she uncovers is a twisted tale twenty years in the making... -
![The Missing Woman by Elle Gray]()
The Missing Woman by Elle Gray
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsJust breathe.It will all be OK.An uncontrollable flame feeds on destruction.It sucks the oxygen out of a room, the air in your lungs.Left in its monster form, the only outcome will be death...After the loss of her family, FBI agent Blake Wilder felt like an empty vessel... -
![One Last Child by Anni Taylor]()
One Last Child by Anni Taylor
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWinner, Audiofile Earphones Award 2020 - narration by Caroline Lee.Five long-missing children are about to be RETURNED.It was summer in the mountains when five small children vanished from their nursery school picnic. The heat was stifling that day, the tinkle of an ice-cream van in the air....Three-and-a-half years later, in the dead of winter, the children are returned to their families.. -
![Love, Lies, and Suicide by Elle Gray, K.S. Gray]()
Love, Lies, and Suicide by Elle Gray, K.S. Gray
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“You can’t always get what you want.”“But, if you try, you might find…”You’ll get exactly what’s coming for you.FBI agent Olivia Knight has seen the realities of what happens when nightmares come to life.When she’s called to investigate a case of an apparent murder-suicide in an affluent community... -
![The Lullaby Man by Anni Taylor]()
The Lullaby Man by Anni Taylor
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA decade ago, The Lullaby Man preyed upon young girls in Tallman's Valley. He stole into their lives, whispered in their ears, spoke of love...But only the girls themselves ever knew about him. Abby Wakeland was fourteen then. Now twenty-four, she's found the courage to tell her mother--Senior Detective Kate Wakeland--about what happened... -
![Where Secrets Lie by D.S. Butler]()
Where Secrets Lie by D.S. Butler
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsBeneath a quiet village, dark crimes lie buried. When decomposed human remains are discovered in a suitcase behind a locked door in the home of an elderly man, Detective Karen Hart thinks the facts speak for themselves. That is, until she finds the warning: It’s time to pay for your crime.The body belongs to a former teacher, Oliver Fox, who vanished from the village thirty years earlier... -
![The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden]()
The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 11 ratings“Don’t go in the guest bedroom.” A shadow falls on Douglas Garrick’s face as he touches the door with his fingertips. “My wife… she’s very ill.” As he continues showing me their incredible penthouse apartment, I have a terrible feeling about the woman behind closed doors... -
![The House of Wolves by James Patterson, Mike Lupica]()
The House of Wolves by James Patterson, Mike Lupica
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJoe Wolf applies a cutthroat determination to his life’s work, from to building a California business empire to parenting three sons and a daughter. Kill or be killed. So when the patriarch takes a deadly cruise on San Francisco Bay, Joe Wolf’s bloodline becomes SFPD’s lifeline. Detective Ben Cantor trails the “pack of wolves” as the siblings vie for control of their legacy of power and assets... -
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![The Missing Daughter by Elle Gray]()
The Missing Daughter by Elle Gray
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen a congressman's daughter goes missing,FBI agent Blake Wilder and her team are sent to Iowa to find the missing girl.Already dealing with a mysterious figure who keeps sending her body parts, now Blake finds herself under attack from within her own unit... -
![The Girl in the Manor by A.J. Rivers]()
The Girl in the Manor by A.J. Rivers
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe sound of a blood curdling scream echoed through the manor. Her pleas ignored, her screams unheard... -
![The Hidden One by Linda Castillo]()
The Hidden One by Linda Castillo
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe discovery of an Amish bishop's remains leads chief of police Kate Burkholder to unearth a chilling secret in The Hidden One, a new thriller from bestselling author Linda Castillo.Over a decade ago, beloved Amish bishop Ananias Stoltzfus disappeared without a trace. When skeletal remains showing evidence of foul play are unearthed, his disappearance becomes even more sinister... -
![Only One Cure by Jenifer Ruff]()
Only One Cure by Jenifer Ruff
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe President's son is dying. Terrorists claim to have the only cure.When a private plane whisks CDC epidemiologist Madeline Hamilton to Washington D.C. for an urgent medical symposium, she knows something significant is underway—but she doesn’t expect to face the most disturbing medical mystery of her career... -
![The Surrogate's Gift by L.G. Davis]()
The Surrogate's Gift by L.G. Davis
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHer one good deed is about to turn into her worst nightmare.Becoming a surrogate for Marcia and Travis Thorpe is Grace’s chance to overcome her inner demons.Nothing can go wrong. Her life depends on it.Determined to focus on the pregnancy, she drops everything and accepts the Thorpes’ offer to move in with them until the baby is born. A simple decision. One big mistake... -
![Paper Roses by Karen Ann Hopkins, Brittany Pressley]()
Paper Roses by Karen Ann Hopkins, Brittany Pressley
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSome Amish communities aren’t so cozy. Paper Roses is the electrifying new addition to the Serenity’s Plain Secrets’ mystery/crime thriller series. While an archeological team digs up Blood Rock’s sinister past, a forbidden romance begins, and Serenity races to stop a serial killer before he strikes again... -
![The Girl Next Door by A.J. Rivers]()
The Girl Next Door by A.J. Rivers
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSherwood is a sleepy little town. A town full of friendly faces, and even friendlier neighbors.Which is why FBI agent Emma Griffin isn't surprised when her new neighbor starts stopping by to chat.Turns out her neighbor has a dark past and secrets that made her run... -
![Count to Three by T.R. Ragan]()
Count to Three by T.R. Ragan
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFor a private investigator on the trail of a missing girl, every second counts in a gripping thriller by New York Times bestselling author T.R. Ragan.On her first day of kindergarten, five-year-old Tinsley disappeared without a trace…Five agonizing years later, her divorced mother, Dani Callahan, is a private investigator... -
![The Girls in the Falls by Elle Gray]()
The Girls in the Falls by Elle Gray
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAfter answering the job posting for Sweetwater Falls, former FBI agent Spenser Song thought that she had finally escaped her painful past. Unfortunately, she quickly learned some things you just can’t ever run away from…When a local girl goes missing and another one turns up dead, Spenser finds clues that connect to a grim reminder of another fatal mistake in her past... -
![Law of Five by Robin Mahle]()
Law of Five by Robin Mahle
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe nationwide manhunt for a killer begins and the media quickly dubs him the “Highway Hunter.” Bodies left roadside on display with horrific markings; a calling card. But this case is miles away from Katie Reid and her life with Detective Marshall Avery.That is, until she gets the call from her old friend and reporter, Marc Aguilar, who believes that the killer could be coming their way... -
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![Little Lost Secrets by Cheryl Bradshaw]()
Little Lost Secrets by Cheryl Bradshaw
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen a dead body is found in the walls during a home renovation, detective Georgiana Germaine gets swept into a cold case murder...Categorized as:
suspense crime kidnapping female-mc thriller mystery fiction pollution-climate-change -
![Run Away With Me by Daniel Hurst]()
Run Away With Me by Daniel Hurst
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsYou can run but you can't hide...Laura is feeling content with her life. She is married, she has a good home and she is due to give birth to her first child any day now. But her perfect world is shattered when her husband comes home flustered and afraid. He's made a terrible mistake. He's done a bad thing. And now the police are going to be looking for him...There's only one way out of this... -
![First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston]()
First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsEvie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist.The identity comes to Evie Porter. Once she’s given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it... -
![The Perfect Nanny by D.L. Fisher]()
The Perfect Nanny by D.L. Fisher
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLucinda and Andrew Douglass are settling into life with their newborn baby, Delilah. Only four weeks in, much to Andrew’s dismay, Lucinda is planning her return to a high-powered job at the New York Stock Exchange, causing a major rift in their already volatile marriage.On the bright side, Lucinda has found the perfect nanny to care for their precious baby... -
![None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell]()
None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author known for her “superb pacing, twisted characters, and captivating prose” ( BuzzFeed ), Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast... -
![His Garden of Bones by Vickie McKeehan]()
His Garden of Bones by Vickie McKeehan
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNot all flowers are grown with love. Years earlier, teenage girls began to vanish off the streets of Seattle. Now, they're turning up dead, their mutilated bodies left in prominent locations around the city. Skye Cree suspects there are more... -
![Blake Pierce Mystery Bundle: Before He Kills / Cause to Kill by Blake Pierce]()
Blake Pierce Mystery Bundle: Before He Kills / Cause to Kill by Blake Pierce
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA two-book mystery bundle by #1 bestselling author Blake Pierce, author of ONCE GONE, a #1 bestseller on Amazon with over 350 five star reviews!Here is a bundle of the first books in two Blake Pierce series—the Mackenzie White and Avery Black series—all here in one convenient place. This bundle offers a great introduction to Blake Pierce’s series with over 140,000 words of reading... -
![The Girl Hunter by Leslie Wolfe]()
The Girl Hunter by Leslie Wolfe
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHis pale skin is covered with the dirt I threw over his still-warm body. His hands, marked by a struggle that ended in blood, rest over his chest. His once vibrant, loving eyes are now forever closed. I am the one who consigned my husband to the damp earth of the Glades.Seven months ago, I lost everything.I used to have it all. A successful career in television...Categorized as:
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![She Says She's My Daughter by Lauren North]()
She Says She's My Daughter by Lauren North
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings‘I don’t know who you are or why you’ve come here,’ I say, jabbing my finger at her, shaking as much as my voice. ‘But you are not my daughter. You are not Abigail.’Fourteen years ago , our family holiday ended in tragedy when my darling four-year-old girl was snatched from us on the beach. Not a day goes by when I don’t picture her wide brown eyes, and the freckles dusting her cheeks... -
![A Broken Reality by Rob Kaufman]()
A Broken Reality by Rob Kaufman
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA KIDNAPPING GONE WRONG. A PSYCHOPATHIC CRIMINAL. A VICTIM WITHOUT A MEMORY.Ten-year-old, Danny Madsen, has been missing for four days when Jesse Carlton begins his own search for his godson on a frigid, snowy night. Driving along a deserted rural road, Jesse hits a stretch of black ice at the same time Danny appears from the thicket. From that moment, life changes for everyone... -
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![Don’t Tell Teacher by Suzy K. Quinn]()
Don’t Tell Teacher by Suzy K. Quinn
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSchool should have been the safest place… For Lizzie Riley, switching her six-year-old son Tom to the local academy school marks a fresh start, post-divorce. With its excellent reputation, Lizzie knows it’ll be a safe space away from home.But there's something strange happening at school. Parents are forbidden from entering the grounds, and there are bars across the classroom windows... -
![All Her Fault by Andrea Mara]()
All Her Fault by Andrea Mara
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsONE MISSING BOY.Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Tudor Grove, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn't a mother she recognises. She isn't the nanny. She doesn't have Milo. And so begins every parent's worst nightmare.FOUR GUILTY WOMEN... -
![Do You Remember? by Freida McFadden]()
Do You Remember? by Freida McFadden
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsTess Strebel can’t recognize her own face.She can’t recognize her home. Her bedroom is unfamiliar. And she can’t remember the handsome stranger lying next to her in bed. A stranger who claims he’s her husband.Tess reads a letter in her own handwriting, composed during a rare lucid day, explaining her life as it now exists: She was in a terrible car accident one year ago... -
![The Game You Played by Anni Taylor]()
The Game You Played by Anni Taylor
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsLittle Boy Blue Where did you go? Who led you away? Only I know . . . . Two-year-old Tommy Basko goes missing from a popular inner-city playground. Six months later, his parents begin receiving cryptic messages in rhyme about Tommy. The police don't believe the messages are from the abductor, but Tommy's mother Phoebe is certain they're a game meant for her... -
![Fatal Games by Elle Gray, K.S. Gray]()
Fatal Games by Elle Gray, K.S. Gray
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJumping off a plane is one thing, but being forced to do so amid a plane crash is something no one puts on their bucket list.After surviving a plane crash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, FBI agent Olivia Knight and a group of survivors are washed ashore onto a desolate island.An island harboring more danger than any of them could have ever imagined... -
![The Perfect Getaway by Elle Gray, K.S. Gray]()
The Perfect Getaway by Elle Gray, K.S. Gray
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne by one the guests at the Misty Pines Ski Lodge are dropping dead…After an action-packed year of fighting crime, FBI Agent Olivia Knight is ready for a relaxing getaway with her partner Brock.But trouble has a way of finding her everywhere...Her arrival at the ski lodge is welcomed by chaos with the death of a female guest... -
![Did I Kill My Husband? by A.J. Campbell]()
Did I Kill My Husband? by A.J. Campbell
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe police officer’s voice is steady as he tells me the news. ‘Your husband is in hospital.’ My heart pounds. I think about my children, safely tucked up in bed. What will happen to us if he loses his life? And more importantly… do the police know where I really was tonight?Everybody thinks Michael and I are the perfect couple. But everybody is wrong... -
![The Boy in the Woods by A.J. Wills]()
The Boy in the Woods by A.J. Wills
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat she saw in the woods will test a mother’s love to the limits Sabine Sugar, devoted wife and mother, has turned her back on the haters and moved her family to a new town where no one knows they had anything to do with the death of a teenage girl... -
![Every Pretty Thing by Chris Mooney]()
Every Pretty Thing by Chris Mooney
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn Every Pretty Thing serial killer hunter Darby McCormick finds herself in Montana, looking for a friend. Little does she realise that a murderer is waiting for her . . .She came to find her friend.Instead she found a killer.Serial killer expert Darby McCormick gets a call from FBI Agent Jackson Cooper, who has been contacted by a woman who's been in hiding for twenty years... -
![Beneath These Walls by Shade Owens]()
Beneath These Walls by Shade Owens
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSix months ago, my husband tried to kill me.Now, my sons and I are living in an old Victorian house passed down to me by my uncle. The house may be big, but the town is small... it's safe, which is something I haven't felt in a very long time. And best of all, it's very far away from my ex.As soon as we move in, however, I discover that this house has an eerie reputation... -
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![The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins]()
The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest woman, she’s also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family’s estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains... -
![Left Hanging by Maria Frankland]()
Left Hanging by Maria Frankland
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMarriage is a coin with two sides. One joyful. One deadly.Kerry's focus is on fitting in, whilst safeguarding the lifestyle she has always craved. With a handsome, affluent husband, twin boys and her own successful business, it seems as though nothing could ever ‘flip’ her coin.Ed fears their marriage is a sham and that he is living a lie... -
![Corrupted by Sin by Kennedy Layne]()
Corrupted by Sin by Kennedy Layne
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA chilling confession unleashes deadly secrets…In downtown D.C., an emergency surgery is performed on a prominent psychiatrist following a multi-car accident. The ICU nurse on duty has heard many interesting utterances from her groggy patients over the years... -
![The Cut by Chris Brookmyre]()
The Cut by Chris Brookmyre
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick'Strikingly original and definitively Brookmyre - there's nothing he can't do'Mick Herron'I recommend The Cut SO HIGHLY! A fast-paced thriller, lovely characters, [and] it kept me guessing'Marian KeyesThe supremely entertaining, moving, and unpredictable new thriller from multi-award-winning bestseller Chris Brookmyre is a wholly original masterpiece and the best... -
![Hidden Justice by Nolon King, David W. Wright]()
Hidden Justice by Nolon King, David W. Wright
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe bestselling authors of Yesterday's Gone , Pretty Killer , and No Justice bring you a brand new unforgettable thriller that blends mystery and suspense into pulse-pounding, revenge-seeking, fast-paced thriller action.Frank Grimm is a retired detective who breaks into his neighbors' homes searching for clues to find the man who murdered his daughter...Categorized as:
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![One Little Lie by Christopher Greyson]()
One Little Lie by Christopher Greyson
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTHE TRUTH COULD COST HER EVERYTHING.Kate had high hopes when she moved to her husband‘s hometown, but her domestic bliss was short-lived. Blindsided by her spouse’s very public affair with his high school sweetheart and a painful divorce, Kate’s determined to hold onto custody of her kids and pull herself together...
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