A twisty, multiple layered thriller where the past and present clash in a maze of suspense. Best friends Francesca and Sophie tell their tales with nearly 20 years separating them. In 1997 Sophie disappeared, she was 21 with plenty to live for, in 2016 Francesca returns to the seaside town when she learns a body has been found.
Claire Douglas gives the the two women a conversational, realistic voice, and as more and more layers are revealed, my feelings and thoughts about Francesca and Sophie bounced inside my mind and altered. With corkscrews of secrets and hidden thoughts being slowly released, it made me ponder just how clean and true our memories actually are.
With an ending drenched in drama, ’Local Girl Missing’ is a suspense filled read. ~ Liz Robinson
The old Victorian pier was once a thing of beauty. It's also where twenty-one-year-old Sophie Collier vanished eighteen years ago. Francesca has spent the last twenty years haunted by the disappearance of her best friend.
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The old Victorian pier was once a thing of beauty. It's also where twenty-one-year-old Sophie Collier vanished eighteen years ago.
Local Girl Missing features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, Crime and Mystery, Family Drama, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
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Local Girl Missing was written by Claire Douglas and published by Penguin Books Ltd
Local Girl Missing has 371 pages
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