The Collector: A missing child. No witnesses.

Investigator Erik Schäfer discovers that 10-year-old Lukas is obsessed with pareidolia and has recently photographed an old barn door, leading journalist Heloise Kaldan to cover the story of the missing boy. When she realizes that the traumatized soldiers are mixed up in Lukas' case, Schäfer and Heloise must try to separate optical illusion from reality before it's too late.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 01 June 2023
Publisher: Swift Press

When 10-year-old Lukas vanishes without a trace, investigator Erik Schäfer finds himself with limited leads to work with. However, a chance encounter reveals that Lukas has a peculiar fascination with pareidolia, the psychological phenomenon where individuals perceive faces or patterns in seemingly random objects. Intrigued by this revelation, Schäfer delves deeper into Lukas's past and discovers that he has recently taken a photograph of an old barn door.

Journalist Heloise Kaldan, who happens to come across the barn door photograph, recognizes the location and believes it holds significant importance in the case. Determined to uncover the truth, Kaldan abandons her current assignment, a controversial investigation into soldiers with PTSD, to focus on the search for Lukas. As she delves deeper into the story, Kaldan realizes that the traumatized soldiers she had been researching are somehow connected to Lukas's disappearance.

Schäfer and Kaldan must navigate a complex web of illusions and reality as they attempt to separate the wheat from the chaff and unravel the truth behind Lukas's disappearance. Time is of the essence, as every moment counts in their quest to find the missing boy before it's too late. With their determination and resourcefulness, they may just be able to uncover the secrets that lie behind Lukas's disappearance and bring him home safely.

Weight: 286g
Dimension: 128 x 199 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800751514