Someone Must Know: The Search for Missing People and Lost Identities

'The heart and soul of what it means to be human. Heart-rending but utterly uplifting' PROFESSOR LADY SUE BLACK, author of All That Remains'Gripping and compassionate, it digs beneath the surface to expose the agony of those lost and those left behind' VAL MCDERMID‘Fascinating’ LYNDA LA PLANTEEvery ninety seconds someone is reported missing in the UK.Most return, but some do not. This book is about those who stay missing. The police are unable to investigate every case fully and so, too often, these people disappear from memory.But the missing always leave behind traces - clues as to who they might have been and where they might have gone. Dave Grimstead, a retired detective inspector, has built Locate International: a remarkable and eclectic team of passionate volunteers - oceanographers and genealogists, forensic linguists and vintage clothes experts, students and retirees - all united by a desire to restore to the missing their names, faces and humanity. And to do that, they must fo