PASSENGER 23

Every year, on average 23 people disappear without a trace from cruise ships. No one has ever come back. Until now. Five years ago police psychologist Martin Schwartz lost his wife and son. They were holidaying on a cruise ship when they simply vanished, the case written off as a straightforward murder-suicide. They are not the only parent-and-child pair to have disappeared from the ship in recent years - and yet, the authorities seem unconcerned. But when a missing girl reappears - carrying Martin s son s beloved teddy bear - the police won t be able to avoid the truth that something sinister is lurking on board... Without question one of the crime world s most evocative storytellers KARIN SLAUGHTER Fitzek s thrillers are breathtaking, full of wild twists HARLAN COBEN