'Terrific - terrifying amazing' STEPHEN KING 'Completely indescribably magnificent' MARIAN
KEYES ----------------------------------------------------------- A DISAPPEARANCE. A SMALL
TOWN. A QUESTION THAT NEEDS ANSWERING... Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a remote Irish
village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a
bruising divorce he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where
nothing much happens. But then a local kid comes looking for his help. His brother has gone
missing and no one least of all the police seems to care. Cal wants nothing to do with any
kind of investigation but somehow he can't make himself walk away. Soon Cal will discover that
even in the most idyllic small town secrets lie hidden people aren't always what they seem
and trouble can come calling at his door. A gripping tale of breath-taking beauty and suspense
that asks how we decide what's right and wrong in a world where neither is simple and what we
risk if we fail. WINTER RICHARD AND JUDY BOOKCLUB PICK THE SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR
2021 THE TIMES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2021 FT BEST BOOK OF 2020 THE GUARDIAN BEST CRIME AND
THRILLER BOOK OF 2020 THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE YEAR 2020
----------------------------------------------------------- WHAT EVERYONE IS SAYING ABOUT TANA
FRENCH 'I'm a big fan of Tana French' IAN RANKIN 'I didn't want it to end' HARRIET TYCE 'An
engrossing unpredictable beautifully written mystery' SOPHIE HANNAH 'To say Tana French is
one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she's simply this: a truly
great writer' GILLIAN FLYNN 'This mystery about family memory and the cracks in both will
haunt you for a long long time' ERIN KELLY 'Immersive and atmospheric ... Cal and Trey could
very well be the new sort of heroes we need in this strange world' ARAMINTA HALL 'This is a
tour de force of suspense and storytelling. Comes closer to perfection than anything I've read
in the last decade' SARAH HILARY 'A tale of flawed characters complex relationships and
elusive loyalties. Subtle and powerful' CHRIS HAMMER 'The Searcher is its own kind of
masterpiece' THE WASHINGTON POST 'One of the most compulsive psychological mysteries since
Donna Tartt's The Secret History' THE TIMES 'The Wych Elm should cement French's place in the
first rank of great literary novelists' OBSERVER 'French offers a masterclass in unreliability'
SUNDAY TIMES '[Crime fiction's] biggest contemporary star' GUARDIAN 'One of the finest writers
of contemporary crime fiction ... a work of great strength and beauty' THE DAILY MAIL 'This
compulsive beautifully written thriller - part modern Western part satisfying mystery - is
brilliantly character-driven perfectly evoking life in a small Irish town' THE SUNDAY MIRROR
'An audacious departure for this immensely talented author . . . not to be missed' THE NEW YORK
TIMES 'Nuanced and compelling' THE NEW YORKER
