If Naomi Cottle’s dogged pursuit of five-year-old Madison through the snowy Oregon backcountry gripped you, you’ll be hooked by D.D. Warren’s hunt for predator and survivor in Find Her. Like Naomi, Gardner’s investigators push past red tape and risk themselves for the lost, and the story’s momentum—driven by Flora Dane’s harrowing past—mirrors the urgent, clear objective that powered The Child Finder.

You followed Naomi into the woods because the case was intimate—just her, Madison, and the ghosts of Naomi’s own vanished past. The Marsh King’s Daughter keeps that same close, breath-held feeling as Helena tracks the survivalist father who once held her mother captive. The remote wetlands echo the snowy forest that sheltered Madison-the-‘Snow Girl,’ turning landscape into a character while a woman with buried memories confronts what the wild kept hidden.

If Madison’s fairy-tale voice—recasting terror as story—moved you, Room offers a similarly piercing look from inside captivity. Jack narrates life in a single locked space with Ma, and the way his imagination reframes danger will recall how Madison becomes the ‘Snow Girl.’ It’s a tender, psychologically rich companion to Naomi’s effort to see the world as a child might in order to bring her home.

Naomi’s strength lies not just in skill but in empathy—her own fragmented memories sharpen her focus on Madison. In Long Bright River, patrol officer Mickey Fitzpatrick searches for her missing sister amid a string of disappearances. Like Naomi, Mickey navigates fraught family history and institutional indifference, turning personal scars into resolve as she fights for someone the world too easily overlooks.

If the way The Child Finder braided a fairy tale through Madison’s ordeal—turning a predator’s cabin and a white forest into something mythic—enchanted you, The Snow Child carries that same shimmering mood. Set in 1920s Alaska, it follows a couple who glimpse a mysterious girl in the snow. The lyrical, winter-bright language and folktale undertow echo Madison’s ‘Snow Girl’ chapters while exploring love, loss, and the fragile magic of belief.