by R. Scott Bakker (2010)
Using his photographic memory in his career as a private investigator, Disciple Manning takes a case involving a missing girl that brings him to the Pennsylvania compound of a cult that believes the Earth is about to be engulfed by the sun, a case that is complicated by the hate activities of a neo-Nazi organization.
Mike Doogan
Faith Wright, granddaughter of the founder of Rejoice, a Christian community in the icy interior of Alaska, has disappeared. Now the elders of Rejoice must look beyond their close-knit village for help.Once a decorated detective, now an ex-con, Nik Kane is desperate for a second chance. Nothing can give him back his career or family, but the search for Faith may restore his soul.
Jo Bannister
Though Brodie Farrell runs a business called "Looking for Something?" she tries to avoid missing people cases. But she can't refuse when Superintendent Jack Deacon asks her to find the long-lost aunt of two girls after their mother is murdered. Deacon sets about tracking the missing father who is also suspected of the murder.
Matt Hilton
PI Tess Grey and her partner Nicolas 'Po' Villere have been hired by Margaret Norris to find her granddaughter, Jasmine Reed, who has been missing for sixteen days. But if Tess is to have any chance of finding Jazz, she needs to know the truth about the young woman's troubled past. What is it that Margaret Norris isn't telling her? Tess and Po aren't the only ones looking for Jazz. With shady local businessman Daryl Bruin and his henchman John Trojak also on her trail, as well as a mysterious - and violent - stranger, Tess prays, for Jasmine's sake, that she and Po find her first. But it's only when Tess uncovers a link to several other missing girls that she begins to make headway in the investigation - and finds herself in a desperate race against time to track down Jazz before it's too late.
Jim Harrison
Retired Detective Sunderson must get past his troubles with alcohol if he and an unlikely 16-year-old sidekick are ever going to expose an elusive cult leader called The Great Leader.