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No one saw her enter. No one saw her leave. The envelope she came to collect is still sitting on the lobby desk.
So begins one of the most gripping novels Jack Olsen ever wrote — a psychological thriller set inside a decaying Pacific Northwest city where people are vanishing without a trace, starting with a woman, then a child, then a judge in her robes. The Justice Building is full of police. Nobody can explain it.
Into the hunt come two mismatched detectives. Johnny Boon is a forty-year-old homicide sergeant with a talent for alienating superiors and a marriage that just quietly collapsed; he's case-hardened, sardonic, and better at his job than he lets on. Tally Wickham is young, sharp, and relentless, the kind of cop who searches elevator shafts at four in the morning and won't let anything drop. Together they are about as compatible as oil and water. Together they are the best hope anyone has.
As the search deepens and the list of missing grows, Gamble descends into something darker than grief — an obsession that takes him places no husband should have to go.
Vivid, propulsive, and deeply unsettling, Missing Persons shows Jack Olsen bringing the same intimate precision that made his true crime work famous to a world of pure fiction. The nightmares here are invented. They don't feel that way.
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Jack Olsen is the author of thirty-three books, published in fifteen countries. Olsen’s journalism earned the National Headliners Award, Chicago Newspaper Guild’s Page One Award, commendations from Columbia and Indiana Universities, the Washington State Governor’s Award, the Scripps-Howard Award as well as other honors. Olsen was described as “the dean of true crime authors” by the Washington Post and the New York Daily News and “the master of true crime” by the Detroit Free Press and Newsday. Publishers Weekly called him “the best true crime writer around.” His studies of crime are required reading in university criminology courses. In a page-one review, the New York Times described his work as “a genuine contribution to criminology and journalism alike.” Olsen is a two-time winner in the Best Fact Crime category of the Mystery Writer’s of America, Edgar award.
