num_pages: 468
description: From acclaimed horror writer Sarah Lotz hailed by Stephen King as vastly entertaining a new novel about a group of amateur detectives infiltrated by the sadistic killer whose case they're investigating. Reclusive Irish bookseller Shaun Ryan has always believed that his older brother Teddy died in a car accident. It's only on his mother's deathbed that he learns the truth: Teddy who was gay fled the Catholic deeply conservative County Wicklow for New York decades earlier. Shaun finds no sign of him in New York or anywhere else--until he comes across the unsolved murder of a John Doe whose description matches Teddy's.Desperate for information Shaun tracks down Chris Guzman a woman who runs a website dedicated to matching missing persons cases with unidentified bodies. Through Chris's site a group of online cold case fanatics connect Teddy with the notorious Boy in the Dress murder believed to be one of many committed by a serial killer targeting gay men.But who are these cold case fanatics and how do they know so much about a case that left the police and the FBI stumped? With investigators amateurs and one sadistic killer on a collision course Missing Person is Sarah Lotz at her most thrilling and terrifying.
language: English
title: Missing Person
publisher: Mulholland Books