Last Seen(2026)

Last Seen makes its missing-child mystery intensely personal: Ian Ridley’s certainty that a caller is his daughter turns a distress call into a desperate search. The crime story moves with the urgency of a father who has spent ten years refusing to give up, even as that refusal threatens to push him toward psychological collapse.

Ridley’s dispatcher job leaves him with a detective’s experience but without the institutional backing to pursue the case on his own terms. Acting outside sanctioned authority adds another pressure to a search already tangled in grief and obsession. Finding Maggie means more to him than solving a disappearance; he is trying to reunite a family that has already been broken by her absence.