Vanished/Irene Hannon/328 pgs.

Moira Harrison is a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She gets lost, at night, on a stretch of road in Defiance, MO.  A woman jumps in front of Moira's car, resulting in an accident. A good Samaritan stops by to help, assuring Moira that he has called 911, and that he will check on the accident victim. Moira loses consciousness, and when she awakens, the good Samaritan is gone, the woman she struck is no where to be found, and no help is on the way. Moira places a 911 call, and when help finally arrives, she can't convince the officer that she had hit someone, and that a witness was around to help her. Refusing to let it go, Moira takes a friend's advice, and takes her story to Cal Burke, an investigator, and part partner of Phoenix Inc. Cal takes on the case, and the plot takes off from there. There is suspense, romance, and an over-all Christian feel to the story. The action takes place in St. Louis, St. Louis County, and St. Charles which adds to the "fun." I would recommend this to anyone interested in a mystery with Christian fiction overtones. It's an entertaining read, and the first in the Private Justice series.