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The Day She Disappeared: From the bestselling author of The Loving Husband
By (Author) Christobel Kent
Little, Brown Book Group
Sphere
18th May 2017
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Thriller / suspense fiction
823.92
Hardback
416
Width 162mm, Height 236mm, Spine 36mm
696g
The gripping, unputdownable new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Loving Husband
'The escalating fear in this female-in-jeopardy gripper is balanced with real emotional heft' - Sunday Times'Christobel Kent is developing into a reliably classy purveyor of psychological suspense, and this is her best book yet' - Mail on SundayYour best friend will always be there for you...won't sheHave you ever had that sense that you're being watched And you turn, suddenly, but it's just a curtain, blowing in the wind Or the dress hanging in the doorway Nat knows something's wrong. Her best friend, Beth, would never have upped and left without saying goodbye to her. But no one believes that Beth was taken - she is a fly-by-night, a party girl who can't be trusted. No one's listening to Nat.But someone is definitely watching her...Christobel Kent is one of our most assured thriller writers. The Loving Husband is a perfectly paced and plotted novel - Good Housekeeping
A finely-crafted series of flashbacks . . . excellent thriller . . . tense, dense, extremely well-plotted and beautifully written, this is a fine example of the domestic noir genre - Sunday Irish Independent on The Loving HusbandA tautly plotted trail of red herrings, scares and eventual revelations that keep the Gone Girl fever-type buzz alive - Weekend Sport on The Loving HusbandPacked with well-drawn characters, full of atmosphere, twists, turns and menace, this dark psychological chiller has an ending that leaves the heart pounding - Choice on The Crooked HouseAn utterly compulsive psychological thriller. I loved it - S. J. Watson on The Crooked HouseA darkly impressive novel...The sinister, windswept town of Saltleigh is a brooding backdrop, and the characters are sharply drawn - The Lady on The Crooked HouseChristobel Kent was born in London and educated at Cambridge. She has lived variously in Essex, London and Italy. Her childhood included several years spent on a Thames sailing barge in Maldon, Essex with her father, stepmother, three siblings and four step-siblings. She now lives in both Cambridge and Florence with her husband and five children.