
The Girls Who Disappeared
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Joanne Froggatt
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Clare Corbett
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By:
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Claire Douglas
About this listen
“Claire Douglas is a mistress at weaving the reader into a web of domestic deceit.”—Jane Corry, author of The Dead Ex
A journalist’s life is threatened when she investigates the truth about a mysterious car crash that happened twenty years earlier in this gripping thriller from the internationally bestselling author of The Couple at Number 9 and Just Like the Other Girls.
A car accident.
Three missing girls.
A twenty-year mystery.
A woman on the verge of discovering the truth . . .
In a rural Wilshire town lies the Devil’s Corridor—a haunted road which has witnessed eerie happenings, from unexplained deaths to the sounds of a child crying in the night.
In this bucolic stretch of Southwest England famous for its otherworldly sites, nothing is more puzzling than the Olivia Rutherford case. Four girls were driving home. After their car crashed only one—Olivia—was found.
What happened to the girls who disappeared? On the twentieth anniversary of the tragedy, journalist Jenna Halliday has arrived in Wiltshire to cover the case. The locals aren’t happy with this outsider determined to dig into the past. Least of all Olivia.
Soon, Jenna starts receiving menacing notes. The locals have made it clear she’s not welcome. But someone is going to make her leave one way or another. Jenna’s been warned: she must get out of this town before she suffers a dark fate . . . and becomes another mystery attached to this place.
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Oh my! Another British audiction I craved!
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By: Gregg Dunnett
Good read
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Good twist
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Narration by both narrators was really good providing unique voices, gender and accents.
Great ending
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Engaging and well written. And I really love anything read by Joanna Froggatt!! I hope she does more audible books.
I found it engaging
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Really, very good
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My favorite Claire Douglas book!
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Just what I expected
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the story started out great just enough mystery to make you wonder whether the culprit was supernatural or just plain natural. There were some slow spots and the tumeline got a little skewed but over all the pacing was pretty good. I also liked the mystery of who the second group of characters were and how they tied into the story. Curiosity kept me going.
stop now to avoid spoilers.
there were a couple of loose ends I don't think got addressed by the end. First its never made clear what actually caused the accident. next Jean Paul's brother is introduced and interacted with twice then never mentioned again. if he was so desperate to find his brother that he was chasing leads all over the world wouldn't he have been interested to find out Olivia was his neice? but they never get introduced to each other?
Great narrator story had loose ends
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It won't stop me from reading everything else she writes, it just wasn't my favorite
I love this author... but didn't love this book
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Why 2 narrators?
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