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The Vanishing Hour
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9787825384775
Publisher: Claire Danvers
Published: Sep 3 2026
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She vanished in six minutes, in broad daylight, in front of six hundred people who all swear they saw nothing.
When sixteen-year-old Maddie Cole disappears from a crowded school fundraiser in the small town of Ashworth Falls, FBI Special Agent Dana Whitfield is called in to find her before the trail goes cold. But almost immediately, the case cracks open in directions no one expected: a controlling boyfriend with something to hide, a track coach who met secretly with the missing girl, a town councilman covering up a decade-old secret of his own - and an unsolved disappearance from the very same festival, twenty years before, that nobody in town wants to talk about.
As Dana digs deeper into Ashworth Falls, she uncovers a pattern stretching back decades - one that connects Maddie's disappearance to cold cases across three counties, and to a person the whole town trusts completely. With the clock running out and a killer who has stayed hidden for almost forty years by staying kind, Dana has to see past every comfortable assumption before it costs a sixteen-year-old girl her life.
**Inside this story: **
- A relentless FBI agent piecing together a six-minute gap that holds the key to everything
- A small town full of secrets, alibis, and suspects who all have something to hide
- A cold case twenty years old that refuses to stay buried
- A shocking connection across decades that redefines who the real danger has been all along
- A race against time toward a rescue that will stay with you long after the last page
**Perfect for readers who** love FBI procedurals, small-town mysteries, and twisty thrillers in the tradition of character-driven investigations where the most dangerous person in the room is the last one anyone would suspect. If you love a slow-burn mystery that builds to a gut-punch of a reveal, *The Vanishing Hour* will keep you reading past your bedtime.
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