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Then She Vanishes

A Novel

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"Then She Vanishes lifts the stone on a cold case disappearance and asks chilling questions about friendship, loyalty, love, and obsession."—New York Times bestselling author Gilly Macmillan

A twisty, compulsive thriller full of jolting shocks and startling secrets involving two sisters, a disappearance, a double murder, and a reporter determined to find the truth from the bestselling author of Local Girl Missing, Last Seen Alive, and Do Not Disturb.

Everything changed the night she disappeared . . .

On a summer's night in 1994, sixteen-year-old Flora Powell vanished from her sleepy seaside town without a trace. Their hearts shattered, Flora's 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.

Why would this loving wife and doting new mother commit such a heinous crime? Jess, now a reporter, returns to the hometown she left behind to cover the case and dig for answers. But this isn't like any other story. Jess was like a sister to the Powell girls, until the summer that tore them all apart.

What happened to the girl she used to know?

The question haunts Jess and propels her to find the key that may unlock the mysteries involving both sisters. But the search may reveal more . . . a darker side to this idyllic place she thought she knew.


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    • Library Journal

      March 1, 2021

      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.

      Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Booklist

      April 30, 2021
      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.

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