Then she vanishes : a novel / Claire Douglas.
Record details
- ISBN: 0063001551
- ISBN: 9780063001558
- ISBN: 0063092735
- ISBN: 9780063092730
- ISBN: 0063001551
- ISBN: 9780063092730
- ISBN: 0063092735
- ISBN: 9780063001558
- ISBN: 0063001551
- Physical Description: 417 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Originally published as Then She Vanishes in Great Britain in 2019 by Penguin Random House UK." -- Verso. |
Summary, etc.: | After her friend Heather allegedly kills two people in cold blood, reporter Jess returns home to cover the case, which, she soon discovers, is linked to the disappearance of Heather's sister twenty-five years earlier. 1994. Sixteen-year-old Flora Powell vanished from her sleepy seaside town without a trace. Her 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. Jess, now a reporter, returns to the hometown she left behind to cover the case and dig for answers. Jess was like a sister to the Powell girls, until the summer that tore them all apart. Her search may reveals a darker side to this idyllic place she thought she knew. -- adapted from jacket |
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Subject: | Women journalists > Fiction. Murder > Fiction. Missing persons > Fiction. Secrecy > Fiction. Missing persons. Murder. Secrecy. Women journalists. |
Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) Psychological fiction. Fiction. Novels. Psychological fiction. Thrillers (Fiction) Novels. |
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Plumb Memorial Library - Shelton | MYS DOUGLAS (Text) | 34025140520096 | Adult Mystery | Available | - |
Library Journal Review
Then She Vanishes : A Novel
Library Journal
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In summer 1994, 16-year-old Flora Powell vanishes like smoke from her coastal English village, and her mother, sister Heather, and Heather's best friend, Jess, must carry on without answers. Twenty-five years later, Jess is again looking for answers when happily married new mom Heather walks into a stranger's house and allegedly murders two people in cold blood. With a 75,000-copy paperback and 25,000-copy hardcover first printing.
BookList Review
Then She Vanishes : A Novel
Booklist
From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Sixteen-year-old Flora Powell became "the phantom in the room," floating between her mother, Margot, and her sister, Heather, after she vanished one summer evening in 1994. Heather's best friend, Jess, still struggles with her recollections of that night. Eighteen years later, Heather waltzes into a someone's house and allegedly shoots its two inhabitants. Then she returns home and botches a suicide attempt that leaves her in a coma. Jess, now a reporter, is pressured by her editor to get the scoop, creating a dilemma for her that deepens as she uncovers more and more unsettling details of both long-past and recent events. The bonds of mothers, good and bad, and their children, and of siblings and friends, along with the weight of guilt and loss, at times outweigh the elements of suspense here. Gillian Flynn fans and devotees of the "girls gone missing" genre would enjoy the well-framed narrative of twists and turns, especially the final revelation; but some readers may find that the author, in her fifth stand-alone, strains credulity.