Six of the best novels about missing persons

Adele Parks is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of twenty novels, including Lies Lies Lies and Just My Luck, as well as I Invited Her. Just My Luck is currently in development to be made into a movie.

[The Page 69 Test: I Invited Her In; My Book, The Movie: I Invited Her In; Q&A with Adele Parks; The Page 69 Test: Lies, Lies, Lies; My Book, The Movie: Lies, Lies, Lies; My Book, The Movie: Just My Luck]

Parks's latest novel is Just Between Us.

At CrimeReads Parks tagged six of her favorite novels about missing persons and deeper mysteries. One novel on her list:

The Missing Place by Sophie Littlefield

The oil business is booming in small-town North Dakota. With all the workers coming and going from the “man camps” set up to process the overflow of new town residents, it’s easy for people to disappear. Colleen and Shay couldn’t be more different, but they are united by the same mission: to find their missing sons. But the oil company that is at the heart of the town’s prosperity might also be at the center of these disappearances—or at the very least helping to cover them up.

Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue