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The vanishing point / Val McDermid.

ISBN: 9781443410465 (hc.)
ISBN: 1443410462 (hc.)
ISBN: 9781443410472 (trade pbk.)
ISBN: 1443410470 (trade pbk.)
ISBN: 9780751546101 (pbk.)
Physical Description: viii, 434 p. ; 24 cm.
Edition: 1st Canadian ed.
Publisher: Toronto : HarperCollins Publishers, 2012.

Summary:

When a dying reality television star's child is snatched at an international airport, ghost writer and guardian Stephanie Harker assists the FBI's search while investigating the family's past to discover a motive for the abduction.

Young Jimmy Higgins is snatched from an airport security checkpoint while his guardian watches helplessly from the glass inspection box. But this is no ordinary abduction, as Jimmy is no ordinary child. His mother was Scarlett, a reality TV star who, dying of cancer and alienated from her unreliable family, entrusted the boy to the person she believed best able to give him a happy, stable life: her ghost writer, Stephanie Harker. Assisting the FBI in their attempt to recover the missing boy, Stephanie reaches into the past to uncover the motive for the abduction. Has Jimmy been taken by his own relatives? Is Stephanie's obsessive ex-lover trying to teach her a lesson? Has one of Scarlett's stalkers come back to haunt them all?