Classic Nicci French: an unputdownable missing-persons thriller that’s also a searing examination of family; memory and grief. A big-skied; full-blooded; broken-hearted book' Erin Kelly She’s loved by all who meet her. But someone wants her gone . . . Then When beautiful and vivacious Charlotte Salter fails to turn up to her husband Alec’s 50th birthday party; her kids are worried; but Alec is not. As the days pass and there’s still no word from Charlie; her daughter; Etty; and her sons; Niall; Paul and Ollie; all struggle to come to terms with her disappearance. How can anyone just vanish without a trace? Left with no answers and in limbo; the Salter children try and go on with their lives; all the while thinking that their mother’s killer is potentially very close to home. Now After years away; Etty returns home to the small East Anglian village where she grew up to help move her father into a care home. Now in his eighties; Alec has dementia and often mistakes his daughter for her mother. Etty is a changed woman from the trouble-free girl she was when Charlie was still around - all the Salter children have spent decades running and hiding from their mother’s disappearance. But when their childhood friends; Greg and Morgen Ackerley; decide to do a podcast about Charlotte’s disappearance; it seems like the town’s buried secrets – and the Salters’ – might finally come to light. After all this time; will they finally find out what really happened to Charlotte Salter?