Vanishing Act (Charm & Deceit)
By Lisa Karon Richardson, Jennifer AlLee (Whitaker House)
Release date: August 14, 2013
Juliet Button doesn’t even believe in ghosts, but she believes in supporting her makeshift family of misfits. Having spent years as assistant to her uncle, an illusionist, she now has all of the skills and know-how she needs to make an audience believe the impossible. So, she begins a career as a medium by the name of Miss Avila. She wants nothing to do with a detective who has the power to destroy the life she’s built. But when President Lincoln’s youngest son is kidnapped, and the first lady comes to her for help, she can’t refuse, even if it means facing Pinkerton agent Carter Forbes, who knows far too much about her already—and possibly falling in love.
Vanishing Legacy: An Elite Guardians Novel (Elite Guardians: Savannah)
By Lynette Eason, Kate Angelo (Sunrise Publishing)
Release date: April 9, 2024
For this Elite Guardian, protecting her client’s daughter just got personal. Elite Guardian Alana Flores, former LAPD underwater dive detective, just wants a fresh start in Savannah, Georgia, with her son. Hoping to repair their broken relationship and provide him a safer life, nothing could wreck her hopes more than finding a terrified, autistic child in her shed. Enter Cash Thomas, a widowed trauma surgeon struggling to raise his autistic daughter, Penny. He’s put his wife’s disappearance and presumed death behind him…until someone tries to kidnap his daughter.
Vanishing Point: A Nikki Boyd Novel
By Lisa Harris (Revell)
Release date: November 7, 2017
During Garrett Addison’s first week on the job as a criminal investigator for the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, his team is called out to a murder scene of a young girl. She’s the third victim in a string of disappearances with one thing in common–a Polaroid photo of each victim left behind at the crime scene. The FBI is pulled into the case to help, and Garrett finds himself working with Special Agent Jordan Lambert, the woman he once loved. When yet another girl dies–number six–Garrett blames himself and believes he doesn’t have what it takes to be an agent. What he’ll discover is that, while he may be done with the killer, the killer is not done with him–or Jordan.
The Vanishing at Castle Moreau
By Jaime Jo Wright (Bethany House Publishers)
Release date: April 4, 2023
In 1865, orphaned Daisy Francois takes a position as housemaid at a midwestern Wisconsin castle and finds that the reclusive and eccentric Gothic authoress inside hides more than the harrowing tales in her novels. With women disappearing from the area and a legend that seems to parallel these eerie circumstances, Daisy is thrust into a web that may threaten to steal her sanity, if not her life. In the present day, Cleo Clemmons is hired by the grandson of American aristocratic family the Tremblays to help his matriarchal grandmother face her hoarding in the dilapidated Castle Moreau. But when Cleo uncovers more than just the woman\’s stashes of collectibles, a century-old mystery of disappearance, insanity, and the dust of the old castle\’s curse threaten to rise again, and this time, leave no one alive to tell the sordid tale. Fan-favorite Jaime Jo Wright draws readers into a seamlessly woven dual-time tale of suspense, mystery, romance, and redemption.
Veil of Secrets
By Shannon Ethridge (Thomas Nelson)
Release date: July 15, 2014
“Knowing that one of the authors is a life coach with a counseling degree who portrays the experience realistically, may make readers who are considering a step in that direction feel more comfortable making that choice. ” —Romantic TimesCan a woman face—and forgive—her own painful past before her house of cards crumbles. and before her own daughter makes the same mistakes?Melanie and Will Connors are the perfect power couple.
Vendetta (The Nikki Boyd Files Book #1)
By Lisa Harris (Revell)
Release date: October 6, 2015
No one needs to push Nikki Boyd to excel on the Tennessee Missing Persons Task Force. The case of her own missing sister, still unsolved after ten years, is the driving force in her work. When a Polaroid photo of a missing girl shows up at a crime scene, Nikki quickly recognizes similarities to the past. The closer she gets to the abductor, the more she feels this case has become personal, and she is not the hunter.
Versteckte Strömungen (Lantern Beach Krimis 1) (German Edition)
By Christy Barritt (River Heights)
Release date: June 23, 2023
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Vicious Cycle (Intervention, Book 2)
By Terri Blackstock (Zondervan)
Release date: March 8, 2011
When fifteen-year-old Lance Covington finds an abandoned baby in the backseat of a car, he knows she’s the newborn daughter of a meth addict he’s been trying to help. But when police arrest him for kidnapping, Lance is thrust into a criminal world of baby trafficking and drug abuse. His mother, Barbara, looks for help from Kent Harlan—the man whom she secretly, reluctantly loves and who once helped rescue her daughter from a mess of her own. Kent flies to her aid and begins the impossible work of getting Lance out of trouble, protecting a baby who has no home, and finding help for a teenage mother hiding behind her lies. In this latest novel of suspense and family loyalty, bestselling author Terri Blackstock offers a harrowing look at drug addiction, human trafficking, and the devastating choices that can change lives forever.
The Victim’s Child
By Loretta Jackson, Vickie Britton, Vickie Britton and Loretta Jackson ()
Release date: January 6, 2020
AND THE KILLER HAD NO FACE… Lara Radburn arrives minutes after a crime is committed. She finds her renter, Crystal Mar, a local artist, dead.
The View from Rainshadow Bay (A Lavender Tides Novel)
By Colleen Coble (Thomas Nelson)
Release date: January 23, 2018
Filled with the enticing blend of suspense and romance Coble is known for, “devotees of Dani Pettrey, Brenda Novak, and Allison Brennan will find a new favorite here. ”* After her husband, Jack, dies in a climbing incident, Shauna has only her five-year-old son and her helicopter charter business to live for. Every day is a struggle to make ends meet and she lives in constant fear of losing even more than she already has. When her business partner is murdered, his final words convince Shauna that she’s in danger too. But where can she turn? Zach Bannister was her husband’s best friend and is the person she blames for his death.