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Girl in the Widow by Penny Joelson

Nothing ever happens on Kasia's street. And Kasia would know, because her illness makes her spend days stuck at home, watching the world from her bedroom window. So, when she sees what looks like a kidnapping, she's not sure whether she can believe her own eyes . . . A great story, raising awareness of how hard life can be when you have M. E .and live a mostly housebound (often bedbound) life and also how quiet streets can hold mysteries of their own.

The Shack by William Paul Young

Mack's youngest daughter, Missy, was abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack. An international bestseller that explores life's toughest questions through the gripping story of one man's struggle to find answers to his suffering.

The Ruby in the Smoke Series: A Sally Lockhart Mystery by Philip Pullman

Soon after Sally Lockhart's father drowns at sea, she receives an anonymous letter. The dire warning it contains makes a man die of fear at her feet. Determined to discover the truth about her father's death, Sally is plunged into a terrifying mystery in the dark heart of Victorian London, at the centre of which lies a deadly blood-soaked jewel. A gripping mystery from Philip Pullman. A nerve-shattering thriller set in the murky streets and opium dens of Old London.