The Vanishing Season

• Author : Joanna Schaffhausen
• Publisher : Titan Books
• Release : 27 February 2018

“A gripping debut with a plot twist readers won’t see coming.”―HALLIE EPHRON, author of Night Night, Sleep Tight A chilling tale of suspense for fans of Julia Heaberlin. Fourteen years ago, teenager Ellery Hathaway was victim number seventeen in the grisly murder spree of serial killer Francis Michael Coben. She was the only one who lived. Now Coben is safely behind bars, and Ellery has a new identity in a sleepy town where bike theft makes the newspapers.

• Author : Dot Hutchison
• Publisher : Thomas & Mercer
• Release : 21 May 2019

A recent abduction becomes an unexpected link to a decades-long spree of unspeakable crimes. Eight-year-old Brooklyn Mercer has gone missing. And as accustomed as FBI agents Eliza Sterling and Brandon Eddison are to such harrowing cases, this one has struck a nerve. It marks the anniversary of the disappearance of Eddison's own little sister. Disturbing, too, is the girl's resemblance to Eliza--so uncanny they could be mother and daughter. With Eddison's unsettled past rising again with rage and pain, Eliza

• Author : Joanna Schaffhausen
• Publisher : Minotaur Books
• Release : 05 December 2017

Winner of the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition, Joanna Schaffhausen’s accomplished debut The Vanishing Season will grip readers from the opening page to the stunning conclusion. Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or two about serial killers, but not through her police training. She's an officer in sleepy Woodbury, MA, where a bicycle theft still makes the newspapers. No one there knows she was once victim number seventeen in the grisly story of serial killer

• Author : Jodi Lynn Anderson
• Publisher : HarperTeen
• Release : 30 June 2015

From New York Times bestselling author Jodi Lynn Anderson comes The Vanishing Season, at once haunting and lovely, with a gut-wrenching final twist that will keep readers on their toes. It's perfect for fans of Gayle Forman, Lauren Myracle, and Laurie Halse Anderson. Girls started vanishing in the fall. For Maggie Larsen, the town of Gill Creek is only a stopgap before college and freedom. Until she meets Pauline and Liam. What starts as an uneventful year suddenly changes. Someone

• Author : Joanna Schaffhausen
• Publisher : Minotaur Books
• Release : 14 January 2020

• Author : Joanna Schaffhausen
• Publisher : Minotaur Books
• Release : 10 August 2021

Gone For Good is the first in a new mystery series from award-winning author Joanna Schaffhausen, featuring Detective Annalisa Vega, in which a cold case heats up. The Lovelorn Killer murdered seven women, ritually binding them and leaving them for dead before penning them gruesome love letters in the local papers. Then he disappeared, and after twenty years with no trace of him, many believe that he’s gone for good. Not Grace Harper. A grocery store manager by day,

• Author : Joanna Schaffhausen
• Publisher : Minotaur Books
• Release : 26 January 2021

The fourth book in Joanna Schaffhausen's heartpounding Ellery Hathaway mystery series, Every Waking Hour.... After surviving a serial killer’s abduction as a young teenager, Ellery Hathaway is finally attempting a normal life. She has a new job as a rookie Boston detective and a fledgling relationship with Reed Markham, the FBI agent who rescued her years ago. But when a twelve-year-old girl disappears on Ellery’s watch, the troubling case opens deep wounds that never fully healed. Chloe Lockhart

• Author : Joanna Schaffhausen
• Publisher : Minotaur Books
• Release : 25 January 2022

Last Seen Alive is the fifth book in Joanna Schaffhausen's heartpounding Ellery Hathaway mystery series...

• Author : Joanna Schaffhausen
• Publisher : Minotaur Books
• Release : 11 February 2020

The highly anticipated third novel in the award-winning Ellery Hathaway mystery series. FBI agent Reed Markham is haunted by one painful unsolved mystery: who murdered his mother? Camilla was brutally stabbed to death more than forty years ago while baby Reed lay in his crib mere steps away. The trail went so cold that the Las Vegas Police Department has given up hope of solving the case. But then a shattering family secret changes everything Reed knows about his origins,

• Author : Joanna Schaffhausen
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 26 July 2021

No leads. No acceptance. No forgiveness. Police officer Ellery Hathaway stopped a murderer, permanently, in The Vanishing Season, and her reward is a suspension from the force until she completes psychological counselling, complete with group therapy for victims of violent crime. Ellery is not convinced that other victims have anything to teach her, but in the group are other famous victims whose brutal experiences Ellery falls into investigating, aided by reluctant FBI profiler Reed Markham...

• Author : Jamer Hunt,Mark Havens
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 June 2016

Exceptional colour photographs of the mid-twentieth-century motels of Wildwood, New Jersey, USA, the largest concentration of the exuberant architectural style sometimes known as 'doo wop' complete with neon signs and plastic palms. The images in this book are the result of a ten-year project by Mark Havens to capture the essence of these vanishing treasures. A number of the motels were photographed at the end of their last season, just prior to demolition. The images are accompanied by essays from

• Author : Woodrow Kroll
• Publisher : Kregel Publications
• Release : 01 February 2002

(Revised and updated) A penetrating look at the state of vocational Christian ministry today and the difference we're making—or not—around the world.

• Author : James Day
• Publisher : University of California Press
• Release : 08 January 2021

This spirited history of public television offers an insider's account of its topsy-turvy forty-year odyssey. James Day, a founder of San Francisco's KQED and a past president of New York's WNET, provides a vivid and often amusing behind-the-screens history. Day tells how a program producer, desperate to locate a family willing to live with television cameras for seven months, borrowed a dime—and a suggestion—from a blind date and telephoned the Louds of Santa Barbara. The result was the

• Author : Neil Richards,Matthew Costello
• Publisher : BASTEI LÜBBE
• Release : 27 July 2015

When an American tourist goes missing in Cherringham, the local police don't see reason for concern - people often wander away from such tours. But when that tourist's sister shows up from New York, desperately looking for answers, Jack and Sarah become convinced there's more to the disappearance than meets the eye. Soon, they are entangled in a mystery with a secret history of betrayal, sacrifice, dishonour ... and death. -- Cherringham is a serial novel à la Charles Dickens, with a

• Author : Brian Klingborg,Ashley Weaver,Ragnar Jonasson,Mary Dixie Carter,Joanna Schaffhausen
• Publisher : Minotaur Books
• Release : 05 April 2021

Looking for a new book that will make your heart race? This free, second edition of The Minotaur Sampler compiles the beginnings of five can't-miss novels publishing Spring/Summer 2021 for easy sampling. Delta Dawn is a photographer for New York City’s elite. Mary Dixie Carter’s debut, The Photographer, is a slyly observed suspenseful story of envy and obsession, told in the mesmerizing, irresistible voice of a character who will make you doubt that see is ever believing. The