Shelter by Harlan Coben

Shelter by Harlan Coben is a teenage adventure story staring Mickey Bolitar, the nephew of Coben’s prime protagonist, sport’s agent Myron Bolitar.  Mickey, whose father has died and whose mother is in rehab for heroin addiction, begins his sophomore year at a new high school in a new town.  He has lived in third world countries all his life, and the adjustment to New Jersey proves to be difficult, especially after his new girlfriend Ashley disappears.  He discovers that Ashley was not the girl she pretended to be.  Her parents were not aristocrats.  Her mother had been an exotic dancer, and the search for Ashley led Mickey into a dangerous world of prostitution, crime, and murder.