The Girls Who Disappeared

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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

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