Shelter / Harlan Coben / 304 pages

This Mickey Bolitar novel captures the reader's interest on page one and maintains that interest until the climax which leaves questions unanswered this whetting the appetite and compulsion to read the next Mickey Bolitar novel.  Mickey's dad was killed in a car crash - or so he thinks, and his mom is in a rehab center for drugs she hasn't been able to escape since the crash.  Mickey is living with his Uncle Myron and is attending high school for the first time in the U. S.  A newly-made friend, Ashley, disappears and Spoon and Ema help Mickey find her.