Losing You

by NicciFrench (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $3.25

  Nina Landry is supposed to be taking her two children on a Christmas holiday today. But the road away from Sandling Island seems littered with obstacles. Most pressing of all, her fifteen-year-old daughter, Charlie, has yet to return from a night out ...Minute by minute, Nina's unease builds to worry and then panic. Has Charlie run away? Or has something more sinister happened to her? And why will nobody take her disappearance seriously? As a series of half-buried secrets leads Nina from sickening suspicion to deadly certainty, the question becomes less whether she and her daughter will leave the island for Christmas - and more whether they'll ever leave it again.

• Used

  Paperback
  2008

  $3.25

  Losing You is a nail-biter of a thriller from the best-selling author, Nicci French. The clock is ticking - and the search hasn't even begun...Nina Landry has given up city life for the isolated community of Sandling Island, lying off the bleak east coast of England. At night the wind howls. Sometimes they are cut off by the incoming tide. For Nina though it is home. It is safe. But when Nina's teenage daughter Charlie fails to return from a sleepover on the day they're due to go on holiday, the island becomes a different place altogether. A place of secrets and suspicions. Where no one - friends, neighbours or the police - believes Nina's instinctive fear that her daughter is in terrible danger. Alone, she undergoes a frantic search for Charlie. And as day turns to night, she begins to doubt not just whether they'll leave the island for their holiday - but whether they will ever leave it again. Praise for Nicci French: Nicci French's sophisticated, compassionate and gripping crime novels stand head and shoulders above the competition. No one understands human psychological frailty better. No one writes better about grief, love, fear or emotional damage. Not many books are as insightful as they are addictive; Nicci French's are. (Sophie Hannah). You live through every nail-biting minute. (Guardian). A brilliantly crafted new crime series. (Daily Mirror). Terrific. The writing is pacy, the jaw-dropping twists are plentiful. (Short List). One of French's hardest-to-put-down novels. (Sunday Express). French is undeniably at the top of British psychological suspense writing, expert in the unguessable twist, supremely skilled at ratcheting up the tension. (Observer). A nerve-jangling and addictive read. (Daily Express).

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  Paperback
  2008

  $12.52

  Losing You is a nail-biter of a thriller from the best-selling author, Nicci French. The clock is ticking - and the search hasn't even begun...Nina Landry has given up city life for the isolated community of Sandling Island, lying off the bleak east coast of England. At night the wind howls. Sometimes they are cut off by the incoming tide. For Nina though it is home. It is safe. But when Nina's teenage daughter Charlie fails to return from a sleepover on the day they're due to go on holiday, the island becomes a different place altogether. A place of secrets and suspicions. Where no one - friends, neighbours or the police - believes Nina's instinctive fear that her daughter is in terrible danger. Alone, she undergoes a frantic search for Charlie. And as day turns to night, she begins to doubt not just whether they'll leave the island for their holiday - but whether they will ever leave it again. Praise for Nicci French: Nicci French's sophisticated, compassionate and gripping crime novels stand head and shoulders above the competition. No one understands human psychological frailty better. No one writes better about grief, love, fear or emotional damage. Not many books are as insightful as they are addictive; Nicci French's are. (Sophie Hannah). You live through every nail-biting minute. (Guardian). A brilliantly crafted new crime series. (Daily Mirror). Terrific. The writing is pacy, the jaw-dropping twists are plentiful. (Short List). One of French's hardest-to-put-down novels. (Sunday Express). French is undeniably at the top of British psychological suspense writing, expert in the unguessable twist, supremely skilled at ratcheting up the tension. (Observer). A nerve-jangling and addictive read. (Daily Express).