#20 The Orphanage by the Lake by Daniel G Miller

Hazel wants a new life. She’s thirty years old, single, and her private investigation business is months away from folding. Her luck takes a turn when Madeline Hemsley, a mysterious socialite, pays Hazel a visit with an offer too enticing to resist. An orphan girl has disappeared from a children’s home—The Orphanage By The Lake,…

#13 Her Lost Soul (Detective Maria Miller Book 2) by Helen Phifer

Shortly before midnight, four teenagers broke into the old abandoned psychiatric hospital on Beacon Hill. Only three came out again. The missing girl – Riley Holt – is the seventeen-year-old daughter of the local police chief and she appears to have vanished into thin air. Called from Manhattan to take over the case, Detective Maria Miller and…

110. The Taking of Annie Thorne by C. J. Tudor

Synopsis (as taken from the back of the book) is as follows: THEN One night, my little sister went missing. There were searches, appeals. Everyone thought the worst. And then, miraculously, she came back. She couldn’t, or wouldn’t, say what happened. But she wasn’t the same afterwards. She wasn’t my Annie. Sometimes my own little…

109. In Safe Hands by J.P. Carter

Synopsis (as taken from the back of the book) is as follows: Nine children are snatched from a nursery school in South London. How could this happen right under their noses? No one in the quiet suburban street saw anything – or at least that’s what they’re saying. But DCI Anna Tate knows that nothing…

97. The Boy in the Photo by Nicole Trope

Synopsis (as taken from the Amazon Kindle Store) is as follows: She becomes aware of the silence at the other end of the line. A prickling sensation crawls up her arms. Her heart speeds up. ‘Found who?’ she asks slowly, carefully, deliberately. ‘They found Daniel.’ Six years ago. Megan waits at the school gates for…