Missing Persons

Author Stephen White takes aim at the media frenzy surrounding high-profile crimes in the 13th Alan Gregory thriller. Planning to attend a conference in Las Vegas, psychologist Alan Gregory visits the office of social worker Hannah Green, who had agreed to cover his patients in his absence, only to find her dead body. Her inexplicable death is followed by the disappearance of one of her clients, 14-year-old Mallory, who, as her childhood friend (i.e., JonBenet Ramsey, although her name is never specifically used in the book)

did eight years ago, vanishes from her Boulder home on Christmas Day. As Alan attempts to find answers for what seems initially to be two unconnected events, other people linked to Mallory disappear as well.