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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber is sprung from jail by a wealthy warlord, The Governor, whose adopted granddaughter Bernice has run away. Strapped into a leather suit that will self-destruct within five days if he doesn2t find the missing girl, the bandit sets off on a journey to find the young woman, and his own path to redemption.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
DS Sean Stone has an uncanny ability to identify and predict patterns of human behavior. He knows how people work, but he doesn't understand them. When no one else will work with the socially inept genius, Sean is cast out to the Missing Persons Bureau and partnered with empathetic analyst Ruth Hattersley. Despite the conflict and frustration between them, they make the perfect team as they protect the most vulnerable in society from the evil that...
5) Missing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When the mother of a young woman goes missing with her boyfriend while vacationing in Columbia, she fears the worse. Although she is thousands of miles away, she uses everything in her power to get answers. After getting stonewalled and running into miles of international red tape, the young woman relies on her wit and savvy to find the answers. As time runs out, can she get the proof she needs to find her mother?
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A thriller set two hundred years in the future, after mankind has colonized the solar system. A hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain come together for what starts as the case of a missing young woman and evolves into a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
7) Spinning man
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When a female college student goes missing, a popular professor is the prime suspect. Suddenly, the questions he faces aren't merely academic, they're a matter of life and death.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A baby photographer, mistaken for a private detective, leads him to get involved with a beautiful and mysterious woman trying to locate her missing uncle. Shortly after starting the case, both are kidnapped by a sinister gang of foreign agents and framed for murder. A comic turn on classic film noir and those hard-boiled Mickey Spillane thrillers.
9) Exit plan
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Danish
Description
Insurance agent Max, amid a crisis solving the difficult case of a married man's disappearance, uncovers the secretive Hotel Aurora. This hotel is an exclusive and remote luxury resort specializing in suicide. Max reveals a disturbing truth that causes him to question life, death, and his understanding of reality. It is a disturbing psychological wake-up call about the meaning of life in an intense power struggle over the right to one's own life and...
10) Wakefield
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A successful suburbanite commuter Howard Wakefield takes a perverse detour from family life: He vanishes without a trace. Hidden in the attic of his carriage house garage, surviving by scavenging at night, Howard secretly observes the lives of his wife and children and neighbors. Wakefield becomes a fraught meditation on marriage and identity, as Howard slowly realizes that he has not in fact left his family, he has left himself.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Maud is convinced something horrible happened to her best friend, Elizabeth, but in her search discovers it may be entwined with another disappearance from her childhood. The answers seem within her grasp, but the onset of dementia keeps pulling them through her fingers.
12) It: Chapter two
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Twenty-seven years after they defeated Pennywise, he has returned to terrorize the town of Derry once more. When kids start disappearing again, Mike, the only one who stayed in Derry, calls the others to come home. Each damaged by the experiences of the past, they must conquer their fears to destroy Pennywise once and for all.
13) The big ugly
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A British crime syndicate enforcer must choose between loyalty to his boss and his family and friends when his girlfriend goes missing after his boss strikes a lucrative oil deal with an American businessman in the wilds of West Virginia.
16) Kaili blues
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"In a small clinic in the rain-drenched city of Kaili, two preoccupied doctors live ghost-like lives. One of them, Chen, decides to fulfill a family wish and sets off on a train journey to search for his brother's abandoned child, only to find himself in a dreamlike world where past, present, and future - as well as fantasy and reality - become one.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Born for adventure, Lea Clark heads deep into the Brazilian rainforest, where her most exciting story awaits. When Lea's brother, Zac, goes missing while studying the ecology in South America, she suspects he's fallen prey to a band of ruthless animal poachers, and Lea convinces her mom to spring into action. From the minute their plane touches down, Lea's mom wants her to stay safe in the city, but Lea is determined to save both her brother and the...
18) The nice guys
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1970s Los Angeles, down-on-his-luck private eye Holland March and hired enforcer Jackson Healy must work together to solve the case of a missing girl and the seemingly unrelated death of a porn star. During their investigation, they uncover a shocking conspiracy that reaches up to the highest circles of power.
19) One true loves
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Emma and Jesse are living the perfect life together until Jesse disappears in a tragic helicopter crash on their first wedding anniversary. Four years later, Emma has found happiness again and is about to marry her best friend when Jesse resurfaces, turning her world upside down and leaving her torn between two great loves.
20) A simple favor
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A mommy vlogger seeks to uncover the truth behind her best friend Emily's sudden disappearance from their small town.
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