Briefly Absent BooksPaid to Be Here · Character searches
A small escape.
A very busy scene.
Find the familiar face among the people who almost look right. The uniform helps. The decoys don’t.
On a phone, open the full-size scene and zoom in. Try the search before opening the clue or answer.
01 · The warehouse shift
Find Sarah.
Somewhere among the pallets and trolleys, Sarah is still wearing her work uniform. One extra set of customers would have been plenty.
A small clue
Look for grey hair pinned up, rectangular glasses and a small three-leaf duty-manager emblem. Some other staff look very nearly right.
A stronger clue
Search the upper-left crowd, around the yellow cereal pallet.
Reveal Sarah’s hiding place
Sarah is beside the yellow cereal pallet in the upper-left crowd, facing right behind a stocked trolley. She has a grey curly updo, rectangular glasses and the three-leaf emblem. The other grey-haired employee further right has shorter, loose hair.
02 · The beach break
Find Ben.
Time away from the shop. Same uniform. Ben has found a snack; see if you can find Ben.
A small clue
Look for a dark work polo, short dark hair and a neat beard. Ben is holding a snack.
A stronger clue
Try the upper-right-middle crowd, just behind a red-and-blue windbreak.
Reveal Ben’s hiding place
Ben is just behind the red-and-blue windbreak in the upper-right-middle crowd, holding a snack. The dark-polo figure lower right has a taller hairstyle and is a decoy.
A bonus search
Sarah has also made it to the beach. Can you find her?
Reveal bonus Sarah
Sarah is in the left-middle windbreak group, holding an ice cream. Look for the grey curly updo and rectangular glasses.
Back at the shop
The customers aren’t hiding.
Ben and Sarah have 100 familiar customer types to smile through in our first illustrated paperback.
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