February 2010 Debut of the Month.
A terrific novel taking place in two separate times, 16 years apart, but with both disappearances affecting one character. It is very well structured, a most impressive first novel, a psychological thriller that builds to a gripping solution.
Jane Casey's new novel, The Reckoning, is out now.
Comparison: Nicci French, Sophie Hannah.
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Jenny Shepherd is twelve years old and missing...Her teacher, Sarah Finch, knows better than most that the chances of finding her alive are diminishing with every day she is gone. As a little girl her older brother had gone out to play one day and never returned. The strain of never knowing what has happened to Charlie had ripped Sarah's family apart. Now in her early twenties, she is back living at home, trapped with a mother who drinks too much and keeps her brother's bedroom as a shrine to his memory. Then, horrifically, it is Sarah who finds Jenny's body, beaten and abandoned in the woods near her home. As she's drawn into the police investigation and the heart of a media storm, Sarah's presence arouses suspicion too. But it not just the police who are watching her...
The Missing features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, Debut Books of the Month, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
The Missing is available in Paperback
The Missing was written by Jane Casey and published by Penguin (Cornerstone) an imprint of Cornerstone
The Missing has 480 pages
£9.89
