Charlotte Salter, a beloved wife and mother, goes missing on her 50th birthday, leaving her family to search for answers. Years later, her daughter Etty returns home to help move her father into a care home and discovers that their childhood friends, Greg and Morgen Ackerley, are doing a podcast about Charlotte's disappearance. The podcast brings the towns buried secrets and the Salters to light, and Etty and her siblings hope to finally find out what happened to their mother.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 560 pages
Publication date: 04 July 2024
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd

Shes loved by all who meet her. But someone wants her gone . . . 1990 When beautiful and vivacious Charlotte Salter fails to turn up to her husbands 50th birthday party,her kids are worried,but Alec is not. As the days pass and theres 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 mothers 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 mothers disappearance. But when their childhood friends,Greg and Morgen Ackerley,decide to do a podcast about Charlottes disappearance,it seems like the towns 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

Shes loved by all who meet her. But someone wants her gone . . .

1990

When beautiful and vivacious Charlotte Salter fails to turn up to her husbands 50th birthday party,her kids are worried,but Alec is not. As the days pass and theres 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 mothers 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 mothers disappearance. But when their childhood friends,Greg and Morgen Ackerley,decide to do a podcast about Charlottes disappearance,it seems like the towns 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

Weight: 390g
Dimension: 197 x 129 x 33 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781398524118