Nicci French: Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? (UK 2024)

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Someone in the village knows what happened...
1990
Beautiful and vivacious Charlotte Salter fails to turn up to her husband Alec's fiftieth birthday party. As the days pass and there's still no word from Charlie, her daughter, Etty, and her sons, Niall, Paul and Ollie, all strugale to come to terms with her disappearance. How can anyone just vanish without a trace?

Now
Etty returns home to help move her father into a care home. She is a changed woman from the trouble-free girl she was when Charlie was still around. But when their childhood friends, Greg and Morgan 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?

Nicci French: Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? She's loved by all who meet her. But someone wants her gone... Simon & Schuster, ISBN: 9781398524118 (July, 2024), 530 p., £9.99.

Nicci French: Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? (USA 2024)

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A nerve-tingling and atmospheric thriller from master of suspense Nicci French about two families shattered by tragedy and the secrets that have been waiting decades to be revealed.

On the day of Alec Salter's fiftieth birthday party, his wife, Charlotte, vanishes. Most of the small English village of Glensted is at the party for hours before anyone realizes she is missing. While Alec brushes off her disappearance, their four children -- especially fifteen-year-old Etty -- grow increasingly anxious as the cold winter hours become days and she doesn't return. Then Etty and her friend Morgan find the body of Morgan's father -- and the Salters' neighbor -- Duncan Ackerley, floating in the river. The police conclude that Duncan and Charlotte were having an affair before he killed her and committed suicide.

Thirty years later, Morgan Ackerley returns to Glensted with his older brother to make a podcast based on their shared tragedy with the Salters. Alec, stricken with dementia, is entering an elder care facility while Etty helps put his affairs in order. But when the Ackerleys ask to interview the Salters, the entire town gets caught up in the unresolved cases.

Allegations fly, secrets come to light, and a suspicious fire leads to a murder. With the podcast making national news, London sends Detective Inspector Maud O'Connor to Glensted to take over the investigation. She will stop at nothing to uncover the truth as a new and terrifying picture of what really happened to Charlotte Salter and Duncan Ackerley emerges.

Nicci French: Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? A Novel. William Morrow, ISBN: 9780063298347 (March, 2024), 532 p., Hardcover $32.00, Trade $19.99, eBook $11.99.

Nicci French: Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? (UK 2024)

From the Publisher:
1990
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?

Nicci French: Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? Loved by all who meet her but someone wants her gone. Simon & Schuster, ISBN: 9781398524088 (February, 2024), 530 p., £18.99, eBook £8.99.