Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
2012
Books with the “Missing Person” trope
Someone's disappearance triggers a search that uncovers the secrets of the people left behind.
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Plot twists · Missing Person
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
2005
City of Bones
Cassandra Clare
2007
Leviathan Wakes
James S. A. Corey
2011
Whose Body?
Dorothy L. Sayers
1923
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
1939
The Daughter of Time
Josephine Tey
1951
The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins
2015
Shutter Island
Dennis Lehane
2003
In the Woods
Tana French
2007
The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
2001
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
2003
The Alice Network
Kate Quinn
2017
The Lost City of Z
David Grann
2009
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold
2002
The Red House Mystery
A. A. Milne
1922
Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross
2023
A River Enchanted
Rebecca Ross
2022
The Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Harris
1988
Then She Was Gone
Lisa Jewell
2017
A Flicker in the Dark
Stacy Willingham
2022
The Last House on Needless Street
Catriona Ward
2021
Caraval
Stephanie Garber
2017
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt
2022
The Arctic Fury
Greer Macallister
2020
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson
2019
Local Woman Missing
Mary Kubica
2021
The Couple Next Door
Shari Lapena
2016
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Faustian Bargain
A character trades something precious, often their soul, in exchange for youth, talent, or power.
Revenge
A wronged character spends the story hunting down the people who hurt them.
Locked Room Mystery
A crime happens in a room that is apparently sealed from the inside, with no way in or out.
Dual Identity
A respectable person hides a second, darker self or lives two opposite lives.