18 books like Promise Me

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Back Spin Harlan Coben · 1997 · ★ 4.0 · 375p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Kidnappers have snatched the teenage son of super-star golfer Linda Coldren and her husband, Jack, an aging pro, at the height of the U.S. Open. To help get the boy back, sports agent Myron Bolitar goes charging after clues and suspects from the Main Line mansions to a downtown cheaters' motel--and back in time to a U.S. Open twenty-three years ago, when Jack Coldren should have won, but didn't.… Shares: Bolitar, Myron Bolitar, Sports agents, Missing children

Drop Shot Harlan Coben · 1996 · ★ 4.0 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Valerie Simpson is a young female tennis star with a troubled past who's now on the verge of a comeback and wants Myron as her agent. Myron, who's also got the hottest young male tennis star, Duane Richwood, primed to take his first grand slam tournament, couldn't be happier. That is, until Valerie is murdered in broad daylight at the U.S. Open and Myron's number one client becomes the number… Shares: Bolitar, Myron Bolitar, Sports agents, Crimes against

One False Move Harlan Coben · 1998 · ★ 4.1 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Moderate 5th Myron Bolitar Novel She’s smart, beautiful, and she doesn’t need a man to look after. But sports agent Myron Bolitar has come into her life big-time. Now Myron’s next move may be his last… Shares: Bolitar, Myron Bolitar, Sports agents, Mystery

Darkest fear Harlan Coben · 2000 · ★ 4.5 · 362p · ≈ 12h · Moderate 7th Myron Bolitar Novel Myron faces the most emotionally shattering case of his career. And it all begins when Myron’s ex-girlfriend tells him he is a father-of a dying 13-year-old boy. Shares: Myron Bolitar, Sports agents, Mystery

The Sopranos Alan Warner · 1998 · ★ 3.9 · 329p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "The choir from Our Lady of Perpetual Succour School for Girls is being bused from the Port on Scotland's western coast to the national singing finals in the big, big city. And it's an important day for the Sopranos: Orla, Kylah, (Ra)Chell, Manda, and Fionnula (the Cooler) - pub crawling, shoplifting, and body-piercing being top priorities. Then it's time to lose that competition - lose, because… Shares: Teenage girls in fiction, Teenage Girls

Loving Natalee Beth Holloway · 1975 · ★ 4.5 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate In May of 2005, Beth Holloway received the worst phone call a parent can imagine. Her beautiful daughter, Natalee Holloway, had disappeared without a trace in Aruba during her high school senior class trip. Two years later, for the very first time -- Beth Holloway steps forward -- in this astonishingly candid and inspirational memoir to tell of her harrowing ordeal, and her never-ending belief in… Shares: Missing children, Crimes against

Gone, Baby, Gone Dennis Lehane · 1998 · ★ 4.2 · 510p · ≈ 17h · Moderate PI Patrick Kenzie is hired to find a four-year-old girl, abducted while the mother was out drinking. The search takes Kenzie through Boston's underworld of drug dealers, kidnapers and pedophiles. Shares: Missing children, Crimes against, Mystery

10th Anniversary James Patterson & Maxine Paetro · 2008 · ★ 4.1 · 408p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Detective Lindsay Boxer's long awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals, but that the victim may be keeping secrets as well. At the same time, Assistant District Attorney… Shares: Missing children, Teenage Girls, Crimes against, Mystery

Effi Briest Theodor Fontane · 1894 · ★ 3.3 · 306p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Unworldly young Effi Briest is married off to Baron von Innstetten, an austere and ambitious civil servant twice her age, who has little time for his new wife. Isolated and bored, Effi finds comfort and distraction in a brief liaison with Major Crampas, a married man with a dangerous reputation. But years later, when Effi has almost forgotten her affair, the secret returns to haunt her - with… Shares: Teenage girls in fiction, Teenage Girls

Perfect Nightmare John Saul · 2005 · ★ 4.0 · 339p · ≈ 11h · Moderate If you open your house to strangers, who knows who might come in. And what they might be after. Or whom. Now, ponder the unthinkable and surrender to your darkest dread, as sinister storyteller extraordinaire John Saul weaves a heart-stopping tale of lurking terror and twisted intent.Every parent's nightmare becomes reality for Kara Marshall when her daughter, Lindsay, vanishes from her bedroom… Shares: Missing children, Crimes against

NOS4A2 Joe Hill · 2013 · ★ 4.5 · 702p · ≈ 23h · Moderate Shares: Missing children, Crimes against

Master of the moor Ruth Rendell · 1982 · ★ 3.7 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Stephen Whalby loves to walk the moor. He considers it his, although he and his young wife Lyn are merely tenants in a flat nearby. But the senseless and frightening murder of a young woman invades Stephen's sense of privacy and pollutes his beloved moor with suspicion and dread. And then a second murder captures his imagination in an unpredictable and fascinating way . . . Shares: Crimes against, Mystery

The Closers Michael Connelly · 2005 · ★ 4.5 · 403p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Harry is back, assigned to the LAPD's Open Unsolved Unit with his former cop ally and partner, Kizmin Rider. These detectives are the Closers. They are thrown into a politically sensitive and dangerous case when a white supremacist is connected to the 1988 murder of a mixed-race girl. The police department has changed, but one thing hasn't - Harry's nemesis, Irving. The former Deputy Chief has… Shares: Teenage Girls, Crimes against, Mystery

Turning angel Greg Iles · 2005 · ★ 4.2 · 501p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Lawyer Penn Cage returns to defend his best friend since childhood for the murder of a young female student, with whom his friend was intimate, at their old alma mater, St. Stephen's Prep. Shares: Teenage Girls, Crimes against

Under the bridge Rebecca Godfrey · 2005 · ★ 3.8 · 346p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Now a Hulu limited series starring Lily Gladstone, Riley Keough, and Archie Panjabi! “A swift, harrowing classic perfect for these unnerving times.” —Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation One moonlit night, fourteen-year-old Reena Virk went to join friends at a party and never returned home. In this “tour de force of crime reportage” (Kirkus Reviews), acclaimed author Rebecca Godfrey takes… Shares: Teenage Girls, Crimes against

Trace Patricia Cornwell · 1529 · ★ 3.8 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Demanding Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from south Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago.In Trace, Scarpetta travels to Richmond, Virginia, at the odd behest of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner, who claims that he needs her help to solve a perplexing crime. When she arrives, however, Scarpetta finds that nothing is as she expected: her former lab is in… Shares: Teenage Girls, Crimes against, Mystery

The Whisper Man Steve Mosby · 2019 · ★ 4.0 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate In this dark, suspenseful thriller, Alex North weaves a multi-generational tale of a father and son caught in the crosshairs of an investigation to catch a serial killer preying on a small town. After the sudden death of his wife, Tom Kennedy believes a fresh start will help him and his young son Jake heal. A new beginning, a new house, a new town. Featherbank. But the town has a dark past.… Shares: Missing children, Mystery

Two Little Girls in Blue Mary Higgins Clark · 2006 · ★ 3.9 · 345p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A pair of twin girls are kidnapped, the ransom paid, but only Kelly is returned, with a note saying Kathy has been killed. When Kelly begins getting telepathic information from Kathy, only their mother believes she is still alive Shares: Missing children, Mystery

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