Fast-paced, Urban Stories

Try these books if you're looking for:

• Fast pace
• Urban setting
• Contemporary time period
• James Patterson read-alikes with less language

Where Are You Now?
By Mary Higgins Clark
MYSTERY HIGGINS
Driven to solve the mystery of an older sibling's disappearance ten years earlier, young lawyer Carolyn MacKenzie investigates a bizarre community of people who choose to disappear, embarking on a quest with life-threatening consequences.

Tell No One
By Harlan Coben
MYSTERY COBEN
It's been eight years since Dr. David Beck's wife, Elizabeth, was murdered by a serial killer. When Beck receives a message containing a phrase only Elizabeth should know, he falls apart. Either someone is playing a sick joke, or his wife is still alive. After being warned to tell no one, Beck sets out in a desperate search which leads him toward a deadly secret.

Dating Dead Men
By Harley Jane Kozak
MYSTERY KOZAK
As part of her research for talk show host Dr. Cookie Lahven's upcoming book, How to Avoid Getting Dumped All the Time, Wollie Shelley is dating forty men in sixty days, but her assignment is complicated by an unexpected corpse.

Acceleration
By Graham McNamee
YA F NcNamee
Stuck working in the Lost and Found of the Toronto Transit Authority for the summer, seventeen-year-old Duncan finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him.