She’s loved by all who meet her. But someone wants her gone . . .
Then 

When beautiful and vivacious Charlotte Salter fails to turn up to her husband Alec’s 50th birthday party, her kids are worried, but Alec is not. As the days pass and there’s still no word from Charlie, her daughter, Etty, and her sons, Niall, Paul and Ollie, all struggle to come to terms with her disappearance.
How can anyone just vanish without a trace?
Left with no answers and in limbo, the Salter children try and go on with their lives, all the while thinking that their mother’s killer is potentially very close to home.

Now

After years away, Etty returns home to the small East Anglian village where she grew up to help move her father into a care home. Now in his eighties, Alec has dementia and often mistakes his daughter for her mother. 
Etty is a changed woman from the trouble-free girl she was when Charlie was still around – all the Salter children have spent decades running and hiding from their mother’s disappearance.
But when their childhood friends, Greg and Morgen Ackerley, decide to do a podcast about Charlotte’s disappearance, it seems like the town’s buried secrets – and the Salters’ – might finally come to light.

After all this time, will they finally find out what really happened to Charlotte Salter?

My Thoughts:

I read one of Nicci’s books a few years ago but did not think much of it. So I was dubious when a friend said she had read this one and enjoyed it. I am so glad I picked it up, it was brilliant. Charlotte Salter is on everyone’s mind when she is a no show at her husband’s birthday bash. No one knows why she may of just vanished but when the police start looking into it all, some people are more suspicious than others. The first half of the book we hear about what happened at the time and the second part is the here and now. Now all grown up and with a town full of secrets can the Salter family find out what really happened on that day? I found it an easy follow along read. Characters were all suspects to me, there are a few red herrings along the way. I would never of guessed the outcome in a million years. It became an addictive read for me, one I did not want to put down. A great read.

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