" know, you’ll say anything is possible. But don’t you think the polis would have been all over him? There’d have been search parties and petitions and pictures on lamp-posts and appeals and T-shirts and so on and so forth? A beautiful young mother disappears?’ ‘Mrs Murray reckons it was hushed up.’ ‘Mrs Murray reckons 9/11 was done by lizards. "

― Jenny Colgan , The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop, #2)