Without a Trace

Salla Simukka

Original title: Jäljellä

Author: Salla Simukka

Published: 2012

Publisher: Tammi

Genre: Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Pages: 221

Have you ever wished that everyone else in the world would just disappear? You’d better watch out what you wish for.

Emmi Aalto is a 15-year-old girl who feels like she doesn’t have anything. She hasn’t figured out what she’s good at in school yet; she’s still just a “Potential”. Her family doesn’t seem to pay any attention to her at home. And she has never had any friends. Emmi decides to run away, so she could at least  become the girl who disappeared. But when she comes back home, there’s no one there. Or next door. Or in the entire town. Everyone has disappeared – or have they?

Without a Trace is a mysterious story of the near future, where being normal is nothing. It is also a suspense-filled mystery that sends an avalanche of questions sliding down in front of Emmi. What happened? Who can she trust? Who are her friends? Does she dare to fall in love? Who is sending her fairytales clues, and what are they trying to communicate? Without a Trace tells about loneliness that isn’t inevitable after all, and the courage that lies within.

Elsewhere, a sequel that contains the missing pieces of the puzzle from Without a Trace, was released in Fall 2012.

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Rights sold:
FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
NETHERLANDS: Clavis Books

About author

Salla Simukka

Salla Simukka is the author of the international success story The Snow White Trilogy: rights are sold in 53 territories and in Hollywood. She has written several novels for young readers and her accolades include the Topelius Prize 2013 and the Finland Prize 2013. Simukka has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award  every year 2021–2024. Where It All Begins, published in 2022, is her first novel for adults and in 2024 she started a collaboration with JP Ahonen on a middle grade novel.

Previously Simukka has written book reviews for the newspapers, translated all kinds of texts into Finnish, worked as an editor at a literary magazine and as a screenwriter for a popular TV show for young audiences.  She has also been working on the programme of Turku Book Fair in 2017–2020.

Bibliography


2024, Middle Grade (8-12 Years)

Salla Simukka

The Secret Staircase


2022, Literary Fiction

Salla Simukka

Where It All Begins


2021, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Salla Simukka

In the Dark I Can Be Yours


2020, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Salla Simukka

Detained


2018, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Salla Simukka

Turn off the Lights! Turn on the Lights!


2016, Middle Grade (8-12 Years)

Salla Simukka

Sisterland


2014, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Salla Simukka

As Black as Ebony


2013, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Salla Simukka

As Red as Blood


2013, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Salla Simukka

As White as Snow


2012, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Salla Simukka

Elsewhere


2012, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Salla Simukka

Without a Trace