A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK ' One of their very best. Compelling moving and
beautifully written . . . an absolute winner' Observer ‘Classic Nicci French: an
unputdownable missing-persons thriller that’s also a searing examination of family memory and
grief. A big-skied full-blooded broken-hearted book' Erin Kelly She’s loved by all who
meet her. But someone wants her gone . . . Then When beautiful and vivacious Charlotte
Salter fails to turn up to her husband Alec’s 50th birthday party her kids are worried but
Alec is not. As the days pass and there’s still no word from Charlie her daughter Etty and
her sons Niall Paul and Ollie all struggle to come to terms with her disappearance. How can
anyone just vanish without a trace? Left with no answers and in limbo the Salter children try
and go on with their lives all the while thinking that their mother’s killer is potentially
very close to home. Now After years away Etty returns home to the small East Anglian
village where she grew up to help move her father into a care home. Now in his eighties Alec
has dementia and often mistakes his daughter for her mother. Etty is a changed woman from the
trouble-free girl she was when Charlie was still around - all the Salter children have spent
decades running and hiding from their mother’s disappearance. But when their childhood friends
Greg and Morgen Ackerley decide to do a podcast about Charlotte’s disappearance it seems like
the town’s buried secrets – and the Salters’ – might finally come to light. After all this
time will they finally find out what really happened to Charlotte Salter? PRAISE FOR NICCI
FRENCH: ' Fantastic - a breathless drumbeat of dread and suspense . . . no one does it
better than Nicci French' Lee Child ' Expertly paced psychologically sharp
thoroughly enjoyable' Louise Candlish ' Heart-thumping head-scratching nail-biting
stuff' Erin Kelly ' Perfection' Sophie Hannah ' No-one does the dark
distortion of good intentions like Nicci French' Cara Hunter ' An absolute
masterclass of crime writing' Kate Rhodes ' As well as a fantastic mystery Nicci
French has written a powerful moving and wise story about the damage that loss does to
families with characters you can’t forget. I loved it' Jo Callaghan
