Vanishing Acts (2005) is the twelfth novel by the American author Jodi Picoult.

[1][2][3] The novel is set in rural New Hampshire, and the story focuses on Delia Hopkins, a missing persons' investigator, and her family, including her young daughter, Sophie, her widowed father, Andrew, and her search and rescue bloodhound, Greta.

Delia Hopkins is a missing persons' investigator, who lives in New Hampshire with her widowed father Andrew and her young daughter Sophie.

[4] Vanishing Acts is narrated through the perspective of five characters, including Delia, Eric, Andrew, and Fitz.

Picoult frequently employs this alternating narrative style in her writing, including in My Sister's Keeper, House Rules, Songs of the Humpback Whale, Change of Heart, Handle With Care, Sing You Home, Lone Wolf, and The Storyteller.