AustLit

'They just vanished …  Disappeared. Gone. Lost. No answers. Still missing.

'Imagine the pain, confusion and emotional roller-coaster that families experience when a loved one goes missing.  What would you do? How would your family cope?

'This is a heart- wrenching collection of true stories told through the eyes of family members who have experienced the trauma of a missing loved one. It follows their journeys from the desperate searches in the first days, through the Police investigations and, in many cases, the heartbreak as the years roll by without any news.

'These stories are just a glimpse into ten of the thousands of missing persons still out there, waiting to be found.  From two young girls who might have been early victims of Ivan Milat and a woman who was last seen walking alongside a Victorial highway to a teenage boy likely murdered and fed to crocodiles in Kakadu and two Tasmanian men who disappeared under strange circumstances ... the cases are all different, but the impact on the families devastating.

'Nicole Morris is the founder of the Australian Missing Persons Register.  She has written this book to develop awareness of the plight of the courageous families of missing persons and raise public awareness to  help find those people who seem to have vanished into thin air.' (Publication summary)