missing persons

When she was in middle school, Charlotte Illes' uncanny detective abilities actually made her a minor celebrity in her town, but that was before she graduated high school and no longer accepted calls on her little blue phone in her garage-office. Now twenty-five, she feels stuck, having no romantic or professional prospects to speak of--and her old blue phone has started ringing again. Solving a case as an adult, though, is far different than her cases as a kid: for one, there were no dead bodies or missing persons back then. Also, the villains now see her as a threat, and could set their sights on her next.

Saba's father Irakli takes him and his older brother Sandro away from the fighting in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia to safety in England. Now, two decades later, the men are haunted by the homeland and family they left behind. When Irakli returns to Georgia and then disappears, Saba sets out on a journey to retrace his father's steps and learn the truth about what happened.

When thirteen-year-old Reanna's older sister Chelsea goes missing on her way home from school, each member of their Ojibwe family grieves her loss in a different way and struggles to find closure. Reanna's mother flees the reservation and its memories, and Reanna and her brother Theo go to live with their father. Reanna leans on her Ojibwe traditions for comfort, and feels Chelsea's presence all around her, especially when she's wearing Chelsea's regalia and participating in traditional dancing. Although the family gets no easy answers about Chelsea's disappearance, they come to terms with her loss.

"When her mother, a flight attendant, disappears, leaving her the order to flee and an instruction, Lana Blum is only sure of one thing: her life is in danger. As the cogs of a terrible conspiracy come to life, the teenager tracks every clue left by her mother. From airport to airport, across Europe, helped by a hacker called Creep, Lana goes back to the source of an unthinkable truth" -- Amazon.

"Manchuria, 1908. In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and handsome men. Bao, a detective with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman's identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they've remained tantalizingly out of reach--until, perhaps, now. Meanwhile, a family who owns a famous Chinese medicine shop can cure ailments but can't escape the curse that afflicts them--their eldest sons die before their twenty-fourth birthdays. When a disruptively winsome servant named Snow enters their household, the family's luck seems to change--or does it? Snow is a creature of many secrets, but most of all she's a mother seeking vengeance for her lost child. Hunting a murderer, she will follow the trail from northern China to Japan, while Bao follows doggedly behind. Navigating the myths and misconceptions of fox spirits, both Snow and Bao will encounter old friends and new foes, even as more deaths occur"--Provided by publisher.

"For centuries, the Everlys have seen their best and brightest disappear, taken as punishment for a crime no one remembers, for a purpose no one understands. Their tormentor, a woman named Penelope, never ages, never grows sick--and never forgives a debt. Violet Everly was a child when her mother, Marianne, left on a stormy night, determined to break the curse. When Marianne never returns, Penelope issues an ultimatum: Violet has ten years to find her mother, or she will take Marianne's place. Her hunt leads her into a seductive magical underworld of power-hungry scholars, fickle gods, and monsters bent on revenge. And into the path of Penelope's quiet assistant, Aleksander, who Violet knows cannot be trusted--and yet to whom she finds herself undeniably drawn. With her time running out, Violet will travel the edges of the world to find her missing mother and the key to the city of stardust, where the Everly story began"--Provided by publisher.

Plunged into a diabolical mystery, Princess Beautiful, the World's #1 Cat Video Star, finds herself in a world where trending isn't a thing (OMG), danger is everywhere and cucumbers are no laughing matter.

Callie, a not-quite-human high school student, can see and speak to creatures invisible to others. Her father, a demon, runs a magical antique shop. On Callie's seventeenth birthday, her father disappears and she must enter the magical realm to find him. She is joined by a boy named Declan--who also can see invisible creatures--and a ghostly Radish. The unlikely heroes encounter medieval villages, enchanted forests, and talking trees in their quest to find Callie's father.

High school senior Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, his neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then disappears.

As twelve-year-old aspiring taekwondo champion Modesty "Mo" Seto faces off against her nemesis in a movie audition, she uncovers a mysterious book and embarks on an adventure to rescue her missing father and discover hidden martial art secrets.