Nicci French: Losing You (USA 2020)

From the Publisher:
In this thrilling standalone novel from the internationally bestselling author of the Frieda Klein series, a woman's frantic search for her missing daughter unveils a nefarious web of secrets and lies.

Nina Landry awakens on her fortieth birthday, anticipating a day filled with excitement. She, her new boyfriend, and her two children are taking a trip -- leaving their home on Sandling Island, off the coast of England, for a dream vacation. As soon as her fifteen-year-old daughter, Charlie, returns from a sleepover, they can get ready to leave.

But Charlie doesn't come home at the expected time. Nina can't believe of all days, Charlie has chosen this day to be late. As minutes and then hours tick by, Nina's annoyance soon changes to concern, and then to a chilling certainty that something terrible has happened.

The police insist there's no reason to worry -- yet. Teenagers are unreliable, impulsive. Nina always thought she and Charlie had a solid, trusting relationship, but seeking out Charlie's friends for clues to her whereabouts makes her reconsider. How well does Nina know her daughter, really? How well can a parent ever know a child? And will everything Nina doesn't know -- about Charlie, her neighbors, even the friends and family closest to them -- prove fatal...?

Losing You once again proves that Nicci French is at the height of their storytelling powers in a clever, mind-bending thriller that has readers guessing at every twist and turn.

Nicci French: Losing You. A Novel. William Morrow Paperbacks, ISBN: 9780062876034 (January, 2020), 368 p., $16.99, eBook $13.99.

Nicci French: Losing You (UK 2019)

From the Publisher:
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...

Nicci French: Losing You. Penguin, ISBN: 9781405941105 (July, 2019), 386 p., £7.99 (?).

Nicci French: Losing You (USA 2009)

From the Publisher:
What happens when you can't protect the ones you love?
It's the morning of Nina Landry's fortieth birthday. She's supposed to have her kids ready to leave for the Christmas holidays with her new boyfriend. But her fifteen-year-old daughter, Charlie, is not yet home. She spent the night at a friend's, and now she is nowhere to be found. As time passes slower and slower by the hour, Nina's worry builds to panic.

Has Charlie run away, or has something 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 and a series of ominous revelations leads Nina from sickening suspicion to blood-chilling certainty, she comes to the desperate realization that she has no one to turn to... but herself.

Nicci French: Losing You. A Thriller. Minotaur Books, ISBN: 0312943164 (March, 2009), 342 p., $7.99.

Nicci French: Losing You (USA 2008)

From the Publisher:
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.

In Losing You, the newest thriller from the long-acclaimed master of psychological suspense, Nicci French unravels one mother's life and replaces it with every mother's worst nightmare.

Nicci French: Losing You. A Thriller. St. Martin's Minotaur, ISBN: 0312375387 (April, 2008), 292 p., $24.95.

Nicci French: Losing You (UK 2008)

From the Publisher:
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, and 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.

Nicci French: Losing You. Penguin, ISBN: 9780141035413 (March, 2008), 386 p., £6.99.

Nicci French: Losing You (UK 2007)

From the Publisher:
The clock is ticking - and the search hasn't even begun...
Nina Landry's birthday will be full of surprises - not all of them welcome...
Nina is supposed to be taking her two children on holiday today with her new boyfriend. But the road away from the isolated winter bleakness of Sandling Island seems to be littered with obstacles, frustrating her plans at every turn. Most pressingly of all, her fifteen-year-old daughter, Charlie, has yet to return from a night out...

Minute by minute, as Nina's unease builds to worry and then panic, every mother's worst nightmare begins to unravel. Has Charlie run away? Or has something more sinister happened to her? And why will nobody take her disappearance seriously?

As day turns to night on the island and a series of half-buried secrets lead Nina Landry 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.

Nicci French: Losing You. Michael Joseph, ISBN: 0718147820 (January, 2007), 292 p., £12.99.

Nicci French: Losing You (UK 2006)

From the Publisher:
What is worse than your child going missing?
Your child going missing - and nobody believing you...

Nina Landry's birthday will be full of surprises - not all of them welcome...
Nina is supposed to be taking her two children on holiday today with her new boyfriend. But the road away from the isolated winter bleakness of Sandling Island seems to be littered with obstacles, frustrating her plans at every turn. Most pressingly of all, her fifteen-year-old daughter, Charlie, has yet to return from a night out...

Minute by minute, as Nina's unease builds to worry and then panic, every mother's worst nightmare begins to unravel. Has Charlie run away? Or has something more sinister happened to her? And why will nobody take her disappearance seriously?

As day turns to night on the island and a series of half-buried secrets lead Nina Landry 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.

Nicci French: Losing You. Michael Joseph, ISBN: 0718147839 (February, 2006), 292 p., £9.99 (?).