Passenger 23

Every year, on average 23 people disappear without a trace from cruise ships.<BR><BR>No one has ever come back.<BR><BR>Until now.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>They are not the only parent-and-child pair to have disappeared from the ship in recent years - and yet, the authorities seem unconcerned.<BR><BR>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...<BR><BR>'Without question one of the crime world's most evocative storytellers' KARIN SLAUGHTER<BR><BR>'Fitzek's thrillers are breathtaking, full of wild twists' HARLAN COBEN