Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?: The 'unputdownable' [Erin Kelly] new thriller from the bestselling author of psychological suspense

Nicci French's novel "The Missing" is a compelling and moving story about a family's struggle to cope with the disappearance of their mother, Charlotte. The book explores themes of family, memory, and grief and is praised for its expert pacing, psychological depth, and enjoyable writing.

Format: Hardback
Length: 544 pages
Publication date: 29 February 2024
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd

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
Shes 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, and utterly gripping.

A compelling and emotional tale that will keep you hooked until the very end. Nicci French has once again delivered a masterpiece of suspense and mystery.

The characters are well-developed and relatable, and the plot is intricate and suspenseful. The writing is masterful, with a perfect balance of description and dialogue.

This book is a must-read for fans of psychological thrillers and anyone who enjoys a well-crafted story. I highly recommend it.

Weight: 722g
Dimension: 163 x 241 x 43 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781398524088