Meloy, M: Do Not Become Alarmed

When Liv and Nora decide to take their husbands and children on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The ship's comforts and possibilities seem infinite. But when they all go ashore in beautiful Central America, a series of minor mishaps lead the families further from the ship's safety.

One minute the children are there, and the next they're gone.

What follows is a heart-racing story told from the perspectives of the adults and the children, as the distraught parents - now turning on one another and blaming themselves - try to recover their children and their shattered lives.

Readers in search of the summer's nail-biting, page-turning, thought-provoking thriller to take to the beach - the hunt is over... chilling and smart The Times

Maile Meloy is the author of the novels
Liars and Saints (which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and chosen for the Richard and Judy book club)
and
A Family Daughter, the short-story collections
Half in Love and
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It, and the award-winning
Apothecary trilogy for young readers. She has received the PEN/Malamud Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was chosen as one of
Granta's Best Young American Novelists. She lives in Los Angeles.