'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
----- 'I'm a big fan of Tana French' IAN RANKIN 'I didn't want it to end' HARRIET TYCE '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 '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 'The Searcher is its own kind of masterpiece' WASHINGTON POST
'One of the most compulsive psychological mysteries since Donna Tartt's The Secret History' THE
TIMES 'French offers a masterclass in unreliability' SUNDAY TIMES '[Crime fiction's] biggest
contemporary star' GUARDIAN 'One of the finest writers of contemporary crime fiction' THE DAILY
MAIL 'An audacious departure for this immensely talented author . . . not to be missed' THE NEW
YORK TIMES 'Nuanced and compelling' THE NEW YORKER
