Small Paperback, Good Condition, 2003, 344 pages, ISBN 0 340 82868 4

The 37th Hour – Jodi Compton

They say you have 36 hours to find a missing person.

Every police detective knows you have 36 hours to find a missing person. The 37th hour is about to begin....

One morning Detective Sarah Pribeck discovers that her husband hasn't arrived at his FBI training. A seasoned investigator, Sarah is used to the innocent explanations that resolve most seeming missing persons cases. But from the moment she finds Shiloh's neatly packed bag beneath their bed, she knows her husband has disappeared.

In many ways it's a routine investigation, of the kind Sarah and her ex-partner, Genevieve, made so often - until a brutal crime stole Genevieve's daughter and ended her career. The kind that pries open family secrets and hidden lives.

But this time the family is Sarah's own.  The clock is still ticking, but has time already run out?

"An intelligent and challenging thriller" – New York Times