Passenger 23

<p><b>Every year, on average 23 people disappear without a trace from cruise ships.</b><br><br><b>No one has ever come back.</b><br><br><b>Until now.</b><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' <b>KARIN SLAUGHTER</b><br><br>'Fitzek's thrillers are breathtaking, full of wild twists' <b>HARLAN COBEN</b></p>