It's Nina Landry's birthday, and she's supposed to have her kids ready to leave in a few hours for a Christmas holiday in Florida with her new boyfriend, but her fifteen-year-old daughter Charlie spent the night at a friend's and hasn't come home yet. Not by ten a.m., not by eleven. Nina is getting angry - they have a plane to catch, and Charlie hasn't even bothered to pack. As time passes, though slower and slower by the minute, Nina becomes uneasy. Her anger gives way to worry, and that worry quickly builds into panic.
By one p.m., she's wondering, has Charlie run away, or has something far worse happened? And why won't anyone - not the cops, not Charlie's friends, not Charlie's father - take her disappearance seriously?
As day turns to night on their home of Sandling Island sixty miles from London, and a series of ominous secrets leads Nina from sickening suspicion to deadly certainty, the question becomes less whether she and her daughter will leave the island in time and more whether they'll ever leave it again.
To celebrate her fortieth birthday, Nina Landry's daughter, Charlie, throws her a surprise party just before she is to leave on holiday. Friends mingle, ex-lovers show, but Nina is preoccupied: Charlie isn't there. Her preoccupation turns to concern, which turns to worry and then panic. Anne Flosnik's voices vary in tone and pitch as she portrays characters who range from teenagers to Nina's agitated ex-husband. Flosnik's expert pacing propels the story as the near hysterical mother deals with unresponsive police, shallow friends, and uncaring neighbors. Flosnik's narration keeps up with Nina's riveting one-day search for her daughter. M.B. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
About the Author
Nicci French is the author of the bestsellers Secret Smile, Land of the Living, The Red Room, Beneath the Skin, and Killing Me Softly, as well as two earlier books, The Memory Game and The Safe House, both published in England to great acclaim.
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