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Then She Vanishes

Written by: Claire Douglas
Narrated by: Sian Thomas,Katie O'Flynn,Nathalie Buscombe,Olivia Dowd
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Publisher's Summary

Then She Vanishes lifts the stone on a cold case disappearance and asks chilling questions about friendship, loyalty, love, and obsession.” (New York Times best-selling author Gilly Macmillan)

A twisty, compulsive thriller full of jolting shocks and startling secrets involving two sisters, a disappearance, a double murder, and a reporter determined to find the truth from the best-selling author of Local Girl Missing, Last Seen Alive, and Do Not Disturb.

Everything changed the night she disappeared....

On a summer's night in 1994, 16-year-old Flora Powell vanished from her sleepy seaside town without a trace. Their hearts shattered, Flora’s mother, her sister Heather, and Heather’s best friend Jess had to somehow carry on not knowing what happened. 

Twenty-five years later, tragedy strikes again when Heather walks into a stranger's house and allegedly kills two people in cold blood. 

Why would this loving wife and doting new mother commit such a heinous crime? Jess, now a reporter, returns to the hometown she left behind to cover the case and dig for answers. But this isn’t like any other story. Jess was like a sister to the Powell girls, until the summer that tore them all apart.

What happened to the girl she used to know? 

The question haunts Jess and propels her to find the key that may unlock the mysteries involving both sisters. But the search may reveal more...a darker side to this idyllic place she thought she knew.

©2019 Claire Douglas (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers

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  • Liana
  • 2023-03-20

Very good read

So many interwoven things that all fit together nicely and played out well. Narrator was easy to listen to and the story never stalled. No ridiculous unnecessary twist at the end, just this book with its own surprises. Recommend as a good read!

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  • Bitten and Seven Are The Best Kitties In Heaven
  • 2022-11-13

Very, Very Good

I am a huge fan of Claire Douglas.
I own and have read everything she’s written.
This is an excellent book with all the right ingredients: interesting and thoroughly developed characters, a really good story with its own backstory, and as with all of her books there is a total development of the location, the atmosphere, the people, the town, etc.
She knows how to leave no stone unturned.
It’s not my favorite (she’s an exceptional author but my personal favorite is Local Girl Missing)
But it’s still a phenomenal listen and it’s performed exceptionally well.
You will truly enjoy this book.
It’s a true mystery, the characters are extremely well developed and you will be stunned by the ending.
This is one of my favorite things about her writing.
She always treats her endings with the same respect and attention given to the beginning, and that’s hard to find.
The narration is very good, truly performed.
This is the other thing I love about her audiobooks, the casting for the voice performers is always on point.
You can’t go wrong here.
Certainly worth a credit.

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  • Pam Foresta
  • 2022-10-12

Awesome!!

I loved this book. It kept me wondering "who done it" and getting very attached to the characters.

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  • Erica Peppers
  • 2022-07-21

Great

This book kept me locked in from the very beginning. It was full of twists and turns with a great ending!