The Collector

'Gripping, endearing, dark, and funny ... Highly recommended' Harlan CobenWhen 10-year-old Lukas disappears, investigator Erik Schà¤fer has little to work with. Until he discovers that the boy is obsessed with pareidolia – the psychological phenomenon where we see faces in random things – and has recently photographed an old barn door. Journalist Heloise Kaldan thinks she recognizes the barn – but from where?Kaldan drops her current article, a controversial investigation into soldiers with PTSD, to cover the story of the missing boy. But when she realises that the traumatized soldiers are mixed up in Lukas’ case, Schà¤fer and Heloise must try to separate optical illusion from reality – before it’s too late. 'Gripping, endearing, dark, and funny ... Highly recommended' Harlan CobenWhen 10-year-old Lukas disappears, investigator Erik Schà¤fer has little to work with. Until he discovers that the boy is obsessed with pareidolia – the psychological phenomenon where we see faces in random things – and has recently photographed an old barn door. Journalist Heloise Kaldan thinks she recognizes the barn – but from where?Kaldan drops her current article, a controversial investigation into soldiers with PTSD, to cover the story of the missing boy. But when she realises that the traumatized soldiers are mixed up in Lukas’ case, Schà¤fer and Heloise must try to separate optical illusion from reality – before it’s too late.