The Day She Disappeared: A Novel
Mar 2018 · Macmillan + ORM
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"Kent doesn't play games with the whodunit plotting, and the novel's water imagery is properly eerie" in this psychological thriller about a missing woman (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times).
When Beth disappears, everyone says she's run off with another man. She's just a fly-by-night party girl who can't be trusted. But Natalie, her best friend, doesn't believe it, not at all. She's sure something more sinister is going on. So sure that proving it just might kill her . . .
Meanwhile, Victor, one of Beth's and Nat's favorite bar patrons, has fallen and ended up in the hospital. When he hears that Beth is gone, he doesn't buy it either. And slowly, a hazy memory comes back to him. Something menacing . . . something important . . . something just out of his grasp . . .
As Nat tries to piece together the events—and people—in Beth's life, it becomes more difficult to discern who can and can't be trusted. The little town in the English countryside takes on an ominous air, with a threat behind every corner, outside every window. And someone is always watching . . .
"A thriller that is tense and compassionate, brutal and gently humane, mysterious, thoughtful and exciting—now that's a thriller." —Cathleen Schine, New York Times–bestselling author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport
"Many talented thriller-writers can make a reader's pulse race; what elevates Ms. Kent's writing is her added ability to touch the reader's heart." —Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal
"The escalating fear in this female-in-jeopardy gripper is balanced with real emotional heft." — Sunday Times
"[Kent's] best book yet." — Mail on Sunday
When Beth disappears, everyone says she's run off with another man. She's just a fly-by-night party girl who can't be trusted. But Natalie, her best friend, doesn't believe it, not at all. She's sure something more sinister is going on. So sure that proving it just might kill her . . .
Meanwhile, Victor, one of Beth's and Nat's favorite bar patrons, has fallen and ended up in the hospital. When he hears that Beth is gone, he doesn't buy it either. And slowly, a hazy memory comes back to him. Something menacing . . . something important . . . something just out of his grasp . . .
As Nat tries to piece together the events—and people—in Beth's life, it becomes more difficult to discern who can and can't be trusted. The little town in the English countryside takes on an ominous air, with a threat behind every corner, outside every window. And someone is always watching . . .
"A thriller that is tense and compassionate, brutal and gently humane, mysterious, thoughtful and exciting—now that's a thriller." —Cathleen Schine, New York Times–bestselling author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport
"Many talented thriller-writers can make a reader's pulse race; what elevates Ms. Kent's writing is her added ability to touch the reader's heart." —Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal
"The escalating fear in this female-in-jeopardy gripper is balanced with real emotional heft." — Sunday Times
"[Kent's] best book yet." — Mail on Sunday
"Kent doesn't play games with the whodunit plotting, and the novel's water imagery is properly eerie" in this psychological thriller about a missing woman (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times).
When Beth disappears, everyone says she's run off with another man. She's just a fly-by-night party gir...
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Christobel Kent was born in London and grew up in London and Essex, including a stint on the Essex coast on a Thames barge with three siblings and four step-siblings, before reading English at Cambridge. She has worked in publishing and as a TEFL teacher, and has lived in Italy, where she set several novels, including The Drowning River and A Murder in Tuscany. She lives in Cambridge with her husband and five children.
Christobel Kent was born in London and grew up in London and Essex, including a stint on the Essex coast on a Thames barge with three siblings and four step-siblings, before reading English at Cambridge. She has worked in publishing and as a TEFL teacher, and has lived in Italy, where she set sev...
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