Vanished / Iren Hannon / 328 pages / First Book in a Series

This is a captivating hometown read.  Set in St. Charles and St. Louis counties, the action pulls the reader into the suspense and makes us one with the plot.  Newspaper reporter, Moira Harrison, is driving through slashing April rain on a long, curving section of rural Highway 94.  She sees a terrified woman in the road and does everything in her power to avoid hitting her.  Unfortunately, she is not successful.  Her car crashes against a tree and a Good Samaritan comes to her aid.  Moira cannot stop thinking about woman in the road and hires a PI firm to investigate what happened to her and to perhaps find the Good Samaritan.  Investigation uncovers a horrific plot masterminded by a pediatric surgeon who kills for charity.  This is a no- holds-barred page turner romance!