The Girls Who Disappeared : A Novel

The Girls Who Disappeared A Novel

Claire Douglas

eBook - 2023

"Claire Douglas is a mistress at weaving the reader into a web of domestic deceit."-Jane Corry, author of The Dead Ex A journalist's life is threatened when she investigates the truth about a mysterious car crash that happened twenty years earlier in this gripping thriller from the internationally bestselling author of The Couple at Number 9 and Just Like the Other Girls. A car accident. Three missing girls. A twenty-year mystery. A woman on the verge of discovering the truth . . . In a rural Wilshire town lies the Devil's Corridor-a haunted road which has witnessed eerie happenings, from unexplained deaths to the sounds of a child crying in the night. In this bucolic stretch of Southwest England famous for its ot...herworldly sites, nothing is more puzzling than the Olivia Rutherford case. Four girls were driving home. After their car crashed only one-Olivia-was found. What happened to the girls who disappeared? On the twentieth anniversary of the tragedy, journalist Jenna Halliday has arrived in Wiltshire to cover the case. The locals aren't happy with this outsider determined to dig into the past. Least of all Olivia. Soon, Jenna starts receiving menacing notes. The locals have made it clear she's not welcome. But someone is going to make her leave one way or another. Jenna's been warned: she must get out of this town before she suffers a dark fate . . . and becomes another mystery attached to this place.

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Women journalists > Fiction.
Missing persons > Fiction.
Traffic accidents > Fiction.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) > Fiction.
Village communities > England > Wiltshire > Fiction.
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Wiltshire (England) > Fiction.
Published
[United States] : HarperCollins 2023.
Language
English
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Claire Douglas (author)
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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9780063277434
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AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).
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What would you do to protect the ones you love? That's the question posed in Douglas' latest thriller (following The Couple at Number 9, 2022). It features Jenna Halliday, an investigative reporter with a new assignment to research and create content for a podcast on a 20-year-old cold case. Four teenage girls disappeared from Stafferbury in Wiltshire when their car crashed late at night on an eerie, possibly haunted road. Only the driver of the car, Olivia Rutherford, was ever found. When Jenna arrives in this small rural town to conduct interviews, she is met with suspicion. What happened to the missing girls? Some blame a supernatural force, while others believe they were murdered, kidnapped, or ran away. As Jenna's investigation intensifies, she receives threatening messages. Someone does not want her to find out the truth. Through Olivia's and Jenna's points of view and a dual time line, this atmospheric mystery exposes many red herrings. The haunting setting is both creepy and captivating. Myth, legends, and folklore guide the belief system in this small town, making it impossible to trust anyone.

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