Will Ferguson

An empty elevator. A missing girl. A brother’s obsessive search for the truth.

In southern Japan, a young woman enters an elevator in a bar building late at night. But when the doors open, she has vanished. Fifteen years later, her younger brother Kaito has risen up the ranks to police inspector, still haunted by his sister’s disappearance.

On a sleepy island in Okinawa, Kaito tracks down Mr. Shimada, a senior officer who once solved an impossible elevator crime decades earlier. The unlikely pair travels back to the city where Kaito’s sister first disappeared — to the very elevator where it occurred. Together, they retrace her steps and uncover the truth of what happened that night.

The story of a lost family, lifelong regrets, and quiet desperation, Officer Shimada and the Disappearing Girl pulses with action and leaves readers yearning for resolution.