By Megan Miranda
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

In a story told in reverse over the course of fifteen days, Nicolette Farrell, returning to her rural hometown ten years after the disappearance of her best friend, attempts to unravel the truth about the disappearance of another young woman.

By Jeff VanderMeer
Series Southern Reach Trilogy
Recommended By Cliff Hong, Library Page
With Stacey Mencher, Readers' Services Librarian

Monday, May 18, 2015. 7 PM.

Area X has claimed the lives of members of eleven expeditions. The twelfth expedition consisting of four women hopes to map the terrain and collect specimens, to record all their observations and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.

By Penny Vincenzi
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“When the seemingly elated Cressida Forrest disappears without a trace the night before her lavish wedding, a frantic search for answers reveals a fragile web of sexual and financial secrets involving two families (From the Publisher).”

By Jan-Philipp Sendker
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, April 28, 2015. 1:30 PM.

"When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter has any idea where he might be—until they find a love letter he wrote many years before, to a Burmese woman who is unknown to them (From the Publisher)."

By Amy Bloom
Recommended By Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk

Arriving in America alone after her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian Leyb receives word that her daughter Sophie might still be alive and embarks on a risky odyssey that takes her from New York's Lower East Side to Siberia to find the missing girl.

By Lisa Gardner
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference, Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

Investigating the cold-case disappearance of a Haitian teen in a gritty Boston neighborhood, Frankie Elkin navigates resident and police resistance as well as the challenges of her own sobriety before risking her life to uncover the truth.

By Susan Hill
Series Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler Mysteries

When a series of flash floods throughout Lafferton exposes the skeleton of a teenager who went missing 20 years earlier, Simon Serrailler investigates the girl's tragic family story and uncovers bizarre complexities and dangers.

By B. A. Paris
Recommended By Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian

Ten years after his wife Layla's disappearance, Finn gets a phone call that she's been seen, receives messages from strangers who seem to know too much, and long-lost items from the past begin showing up around the house.

By Harlan Coben
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Finding and exposing sexual predators on television, reporter Wendy Tynes prompts the arrest of a man who worked as an advocate for abused children and tackles the case of a missing girl before a group of vigilante fathers makes Wendy fear that she accused an innocent man.

By Robert Goddard

A photographer in today's Britain leaves his wife for another woman, only to have the woman disappear. He searches for her and finds her grave, the dates indicating she lived in the 19th century. A reincarnation or an imposter?

By Peter Heller
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A missing-persons tracker who specializes in reuniting families to make amends for a loss in her own past, Celine searches for a presumed-dead photographer in Yellowstone, only to be targeted by a shadowy figure who wants to keep the case unsolved.

By Richard Russo

One beautiful September day, three 66–year–old men convene on Martha’s Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college, and must puzzle out a lingering mystery from the summer of 1971.

By Fiona Barton
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Investigating the discovery of a baby's skeleton in a redeveloped section of London, journalist Kate Waters discovers links to the kidnapping of a baby from a hospital decades earlier before she is targeted by someone who wants to keep their secrets hidden.

By Rene Denfeld

Hired to find a young girl who went missing three years earlier, private investigator Madison Culver embarks on a search in a remote Oregon forest, where she is forced to confront painful realities from her own past as a lost child.

By Edwidge Danticat

When a vibrant seven-year-old disappears from her Haitian community at the same time her father agonizingly decides to give her up so that she can have a better life, an ensuing search reveals the stories of neighbors whose lives the child touched.

By Lisa Unger
Series Hollows

A man searching for the mother who disappeared decades earlier, a high-strung teenager, a psychic who predicts a man's death, and a disgraced former chief of police find their lives converging in ways that invoke formidable personal costs.

By Tim Johnston

When their daughter disappears while out for a morning run during a late-summer vacation in the Rocky Mountains, her parents embark on a harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths where they must answer some difficult questions to find the truth.

By Wendy Walker
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

The daughter of a woman who allegedly went missing by choice visits the small town where her mother was last seen to investigate unsettling witness accounts.

By Tana French
Series Rob Ryan and Cassie Maddox Mysteries
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

“Detective Frank Mackey finds himself straight back in the dark tangle of relationships he left behind twenty-two years ago when the suitcase belonging to his first love, Rosie Daly, shows up behind a fireplace in a derelict house on Faithful Place (From the Publisher).”

By Myla Goldberg
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“Twenty years after her best friend and rival Djuna disappeared under circumstances Celia has only recently remembered, Celia unconsciously sabotages a relationship and returns to her hometown to confess her role in what happened (From the Publisher).”

By Kate Hammer
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

When her daughter Carmel disappears during an outdoor festival, Beth, despite being told by authorities she may be gone for good, embarks on a mission to find her.

By Paula Hawkins
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian
With Meghan Fangmann, Librarian, Lisa Hollander, Readers' Services Librarian

Friday, Mau 5, 2017. 2 PM.

Obsessively watching a couple every day to escape the pain of her losses, Rachel witnesses a shocking event that entangles her in the lives of strangers.

By Mary Kubica
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

The daughter of a prominent Chicago judge and his socialite wife, inner-city art teacher Mia Dennett is taken hostage by her one-night stand, Colin Thatcher, who, instead of delivering her to his employers, hides her in a secluded cabin in rural Minnesota to keep her safe from harm.

By Louise Penny
Series Inspector Armand Gamache Mysteries
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

“Struggling to maintain the Homicide group during the holiday season in the wake of interdepartmental estrangements, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache quietly investigates the disappearance of a once-famous mad poet while seeking a safe haven for his loyal colleagues in an increasingly hostile town (From the Publisher).”

By Eliza Jane Brazier

Investigating the disappearance of her favorite true–crime podcaster, an outcast follows clues to the site of an isolated ranch before uncovering sinister truths about other women who have gone missing from the property.

By Maggie O’Farrell
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

“When a recently retired family patriarch clears out his bank account and disappears during the sweltering summer of 1976, his three children converge on their mother’s home and track clues to an ancestral village in Ireland (From the Publisher).”

By Jennifer McMahon

“At the start of McMahon's haunting second novel, recent college grad Rhonda Farr witnesses a child abduction in front of a convenience store in Pike's Crossing, Vt… McMahon expertly shifts between pivotal events in the past and present-day action, building tension to a resolution both poignant and shattering (From Publishers Weekly).”

By Jussi Adler-Olsen
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Chief detective Carl Mørck, recovering from what he thought was a career-destroying gunshot wound, is relegated to cold cases and becomes immersed in the five-year disappearance of a politician.

By Laura Dave
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

After her husband disappears, Hannah Hall quickly realizes he isn’t who he said he was and that his 16–year–old daughter, who wants nothing to do with her, may hold the key to figuring out his true identity.

By Jodi Picoult
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, April 12, 2016. 7:30 PM.

2016 Long Island Reads Selection

Abandoned by a grief-stricken father and accomplished-scientist mother who disappeared under mysterious circumstances, 13-year-old Jenna Metcalf approaches a disgraced psychic and a jaded detective in the hopes of finding answers.

By Alice Lichtenstein

"On a cold January morning, Susan, a professor of biology, leaves her husband alone for a few minutes and returns to find him gone. Suffering from dementia, no longer able to dress or feed or wash himself without help, Christopher has wandered alone into a frigid landscape with no sense of home or direction. Lost (From the Publisher)."

By Ken Bruen
Series Jack Taylor Novels
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

“Struggling to remain sober and overcome a debt to a local thug, Jack Taylor accepts a job tracking down a woman who once befriended the thug’s mother, an assignment that proves increasingly challenging and dangerous (From the Publisher).”

By Karen Dionne
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

A woman whose birth occurred as a result of her teen mother's abduction and imprisonment in an isolated marshland cabin risks the adult family that does not know her past when she uses survival skills honed in childhood to track down her murderous father.

By Susie Steiner
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Assigned to the high-profile case of a missing graduate student, brilliant detective and lonelyheart Manon Bradshaw uncovers the abductee’s erratic behavior, a close friend’s secrets and the role of a sex offender while struggling to maintain a professional distance.

By Lisa Tucker

Having been raised in utopian isolation by her once-famous Hollywood father, twenty-three-year-old Dorothea leaves their New Mexico sanctuary in search of her missing brother and discovers terrifying truths about her family's past.

By Bonnie Jo Campbell

Margo Crane, a beauty and uncanny markswoman takes to the Stark River after being complicit in the death of her father and embarks on an odyssey in search of her vanished mother.

By Kyong-sook Shin

Follows the efforts of a family to find the mother who went missing from Seoul Station and their sobering realizations when they recall memories that suggest she may not have been happy.

By Deborah Goodrich Royce

A young woman’s life seems perfect until her family goes missing. A writer lives alone with her dog and collects arcane murder statistics. What each of them stands to lose as they sneak around the do–not–enter tape blocking Reef Road beach is exposed by the steady tightening of the cincture encircling them.

By Spencer Quinn
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Returning from Afghanistan physically and mentally scarred, LeAnne endures the death of her hospital roommate, Marci, and embarks on an obsessive search for Marci's missing eight-year-old daughter with a loyal stray dog at her side.

By Courtney Summers

Told from the alternating perspectives of nineteen-year-old Sadie who runs away from her isolated small Colorado town to find her younger sister's killer, and a true crime podcast exploring Sadie's disappearance.

By Amy Tan

On an ill-fated art expedition, eleven Americans find themselves deep in the Burmese jungle, where they encounter a tribe awaiting a leader and the mystical book of wisdom that will protect them from the Myanmar military regime.

By Chris Bohjalian

When a sleepwalker who has experienced episodes of near violence while unconscious goes missing, her eldest daughter, Lianna, finds herself drawn to a lead detective who seems to know more than he is revealing.

By Chevy Stevens
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

“...Still Missing is a shocking, visceral, brutal, and beautifully crafted debut novel about surviving the un-survivable — and living to bear witness. Winner of the 2011 Thriller Award for Best First Novel (From the Publisher).”

By Jane Harper
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Haunted by guilt for a reckless and consequential mistake in his youth, Kieran returns to his coastal hometown and his struggling fishing-industry parents, before the discovery of a body on the beach reveals long-held secrets.

By Rachel Donohue
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

Attending the Temple House School, Louisa, a brilliant new student, forms a fierce bond with an outlier and student provocateur, but their relationship is soon torn apart by a charismatic art teacher that leads to the unthinkable.

By Lisa Jewell
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

Struggling to put her life back together a decade after her beloved teen daughter's disappearance, a divorced woman bonds with a charming single father whose young child eerily resembles the woman's own lost daughter.

By Amy Zhang

Next-door neighbors, polar opposites, and best friends Micah and Janie hide their friendship from their classmates, but when Janie goes missing, everything Micah thought he knew about his best friend is colored with doubt.

By Melissa Wolff

It is the summer of 2012. Amber Swanson’s best friend has disappeared. Ethan Hunter’s family life is dysfunctional and he secretly plans his escape from his small southern town. Their two lives collide and, as Amber puts the pieces of her best friend’s disappearance together, she and Ethan are thrown into a whirlwind of secrets, deceit, and murder.

By Michael Koryta
Series Lincoln Perry Mysteries

When an alleged suicide victim’s wife and six-year-old daughter go missing, private investigator Lincoln Perry and his partner, Joe Pritchard, pursue a theory that the man was actually murdered.

By Joanna Cannon
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

In 1976 England, 10-year-olds Grace and Tilly, after their neighbor Mrs. Creasy goes missing, decide to take matters into their own hands and find her and bring her home, going door to door in search of clues and soon discovering that everyone on the Avenue has something to hide.