Local Girl Missing

A Novel

By: Claire Douglas

Narrated by: Hannah Murray, Emilia Fox

Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins

Publisher's Summary

From the best-selling author of The Sisters comes this twisty, haunting thriller about two best friends, corrosive jealousy, and dark secrets - perfect for fans of The Widow and Luckiest Girl Alive.

Someone knows where she is.

The old Victorian pier was a thing of beauty until it was allowed to decay. It was where the youth of Oldcliffe-on-Sea would go to hang out. It's also where 21-year-old Sophie Collier disappeared 18 years ago. Francesca Howe, known as Frankie, was Sophie's best friend, and even now she is haunted by the mystery of what happened to her.

When Frankie gets a call from Sophie's brother, Daniel, informing her that human remains have been found washed up nearby, she immediately wonders if it could be Sophie and returns to her old hometown to try to find closure. Now an editor at a local newspaper, Daniel believes that Sophie was terrified of someone and that her death was the result of foul play rather than "death by misadventure", as the police claim.

Daniel arranges a holiday rental for Frankie that overlooks the pier where Sophie disappeared. In the middle of winter and out of season, Frankie feels isolated and unnerved, especially when she is out on the pier late one night and catches a glimpse of a woman who looks like Sophie. Is the pier really haunted, as they joked all those years ago? Could she really be seeing her friend's ghost? And what actually happened to her best friend all those years ago?

Harrowing, electrifying, and thoroughly compelling, Local Girl Missing showcases once again best-selling author Claire Douglas' extraordinary storytelling talent.

©2017 Claire Douglas (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers

Hard to put this book down

This was a very interesting story. I enjoyed reading from 2 different character's points of view. It was very suspenseful, trying to piece together what happened, who did it? I could barely put the book down! If you like suspense with an interesting story, then this book is a must read.

OMG!

This book was amazing! The story and the performance. I highly recommend it. You did a wonderful job, Claire Douglas!

Absolutely The Best Read Of The Year

At first I wondered why oh why had the book to be so long...and then I realized with startling clarity,... it was mesmerizing me,.. spinning a web and pulling me in,.. waiting with my breath held so often during the readings of each narrator I could only shake my head in wonder after it was finished.
A tour de force..... Brava..!!

OK

The whole book is extremely slow, until the last 30 minutes when everything cool happens. It's a long wait to get to the good stuff. Overall - I liked it at the end. I almost dropped it more than a few times in the beginning. I do really like this author tho. Her other book is one of my favorites. i just wish the entire book was as great as the last part.

Needs a different Title

3 good stories could have came out of this ending. Only the ending of this book was good

Now this is how you do it!!!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

From the first sentence of this book I was utterly, unapologetically, totally enthralled. A couple of fabulous and extremely talented velvet voiced narrators ( both of these performers are exceptional ), a foggy and windswept coastal location, a creepy and complex backstory between two women, and all of the small town off season paranoia that you’d expect in a mystery of this sort...you can’t lose! These characters are interesting, the location is exceedingly spooky and eerie, and just scary enough with out resorting to any of the usual cheap tricks. A brilliant, well written, well paced mystery that I binge listened in a day and a half. I wish there were a million more like this one because I would buy them all. This formula works. Seaside town, England, two women, off season, it’s a perfect setup. More please!!!