The Girls Who Disappeared

Author Claire Douglas
Narrator Joanne Froggatt, Clare Corbett
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Publish Date 1 January 1970
Run Time 9 hours and 36 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Psychological thriller, Thriller / suspense fiction.

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**THE GRIPPING NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE COUPLE AT NO 9**

Three girls missing . . .

Twenty years ago: One rainy night, Olivia Rutherford is driving three friends home when a figure in the road causes her to swerve and crash. Regaining consciousness, she finds herself alone in the car - her friends have vanished.

They are never seen again . . .

Now: Journalist Jenna Halliday visits the close-knit community of Stafferbury to persuade Olivia to talk and solve the mystery of the girls' disappearance. But Olivia won't speak.

What happened?

Is Olivia hiding something?
Why are the people of Stafferbury so frightened?
How many secrets can one small town hide?

'Clever. Gripping. Terrifically compelling. Kept me glued to the page' SARAH PEARSE

'A deliciously dark, captivating and twisty mystery from the Queen of Gripping Pageturners' C. L. TAYLOR

'Absorbing, atmospheric...a tense, spine-chilling mystery' GILLY MACMILLAN

©2022 Claire Douglas (P)2022 Penguin Audio

Critics Review

I loved this twisty novel

RICHARD OSMAN

I loved The Girls Who Disappeared! From the atmospheric opening chapters describing the highly creepy ‘Devil’s Corridor’, Claire crafts a gripping mystery that not only kept me glued to the page but gave me goosebumps! Page by page, Claire carefully reveals just enough information to make you want to read on and I quickly became invested in both the plot and the characters. Clever and terrifically compelling, I think The Girls Who Disappeared might be my new favourite Claire Douglas novel!

SARAH PEARSE

Douglas is the queen of the unexpected twist, and this is her best wrongfooting yet

GILLIAN MCALLISTER

Moody, menacing and gothic, The Girls Who Disappeared is a chillingly atmospheric thriller

JP DELANEY

Clever . . . Adventurous . . . Fans of Douglas’s bestseller, The Couple at No 9, will enjoy her particularly lively female characters and twisty plot

Daily Mail

An unputdownable thriller. Spine-tingling mystery . . . I could not put this down!’

GRAZIA BOOK CLUB

If, like me , you loved The Couple at No 9 you are in for a treat. A cleverly plotted dark and twisty thriller which will keep you guessing until the end.

ALICE FEENEY

A chillingly dark plot with a killer twist, I was totally gripped throughout

HEIDI PERKS

I was hooked from the first page and turned the last with my head reeling at the fiendishly clever ending. Atmospheric, haunting and endlessly surprising, I loved it

EVE CHASE

From page one I just knew this was going to be a cracking story, and I was right. The Girls Who Disappeared is a fabulously eerie, spine-tingling treat. Its twists and turns unfolded at a breathtaking pace, but Douglas is a master storyteller and I felt in the safest of hands. This haunting thriller is the perfect immersive read. I loved it!

JANICE HALLETT

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