20 of Your Top Missing Persons Books
This Riot Recommendation for favorite missing persons books is sponsored by Broken Ice by Matt Goldman.
In the new novel from Emmy-award winning and New York Times bestselling author Matt Goldman private detective Nils Shapiro has been hired to find missing teenager Linnea Engstrom. Then Linnea’s friend is found dead. And Nils ends up shot with an arrow at the crime scene.
Nils should be in the hospital, but he knows that the clock is ticking. Linnea could be anywhere, and someone doesn’t want her found. Is Linnea a victim or is she playing a dangerous game? As bodies start piling up, the clues lead Nils north to Warroad, a small, quiet town with many secrets to hide.
We wanted to know what the best missing persons books are. We guessed lot of them would be thrillers. And a fair number of them would be mysteries. But missing persons show up (or fail to, rather) in all sorts of fiction. We asked where we can find your favorite missing persons story, and below is a roundup of everyone’s recommendations! The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti The Company You Keep by Neil Gordon A Good Idea by Cristina Moracho Where Are You Now? by Mary Higgins Clark Songs for the Missing by Stewart O’Nan I Found You by Lisa Jewell Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple If You Were Here by Alafair Burke Pleasantville by Attica Locke The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay Paper Towns by John Green And She Was by Alison Gaylin What She Knew by Golly MacMillan After I’m Gone by Laura Lippman The Song Is You by Megan Abbott Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn The Widow by Fiona Barton
In the new novel from Emmy-award winning and New York Times bestselling author Matt Goldman private detective Nils Shapiro has been hired to find missing teenager Linnea Engstrom. Then Linnea’s friend is found dead. And Nils ends up shot with an arrow at the crime scene.
Nils should be in the hospital, but he knows that the clock is ticking. Linnea could be anywhere, and someone doesn’t want her found. Is Linnea a victim or is she playing a dangerous game? As bodies start piling up, the clues lead Nils north to Warroad, a small, quiet town with many secrets to hide.
We wanted to know what the best missing persons books are. We guessed lot of them would be thrillers. And a fair number of them would be mysteries. But missing persons show up (or fail to, rather) in all sorts of fiction. We asked where we can find your favorite missing persons story, and below is a roundup of everyone’s recommendations! The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti The Company You Keep by Neil Gordon A Good Idea by Cristina Moracho Where Are You Now? by Mary Higgins Clark Songs for the Missing by Stewart O’Nan I Found You by Lisa Jewell Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple If You Were Here by Alafair Burke Pleasantville by Attica Locke The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay Paper Towns by John Green And She Was by Alison Gaylin What She Knew by Golly MacMillan After I’m Gone by Laura Lippman The Song Is You by Megan Abbott Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn The Widow by Fiona Barton
