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

From bestselling and Giller Prize–winning author Will Ferguson, Officer Shimada and the Disappearing Girl begins in southern Japan with a young woman entering an elevator late at night.

When the doors open, she has vanished.

Fifteen years later, her younger brother Kaito has worked his way up the ranks to police inspector, still haunted by his sister’s disappearance.

On a sleepy island in Okinawa, Kaito tracks down Shimada, a senior officer who once solved an impossible elevator crime decades earlier. The unlikely pair travel back to the city where Kaito’s sister first disappeared. 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 guessing until the end.