Nicci French: The Memory Game (UK 2018)

From the Publisher:
YOU REMEMBER AN IDYLLIC CHILDHOOD. BUT YOUR MEMORY IS DECEITFUL. AND POSSIBLY DEADLY...
When a skeleton is unearthed in the Martellos' garden, Jane Martello is shocked to learn it's that of her childhood friend, Natalie, who went missing twenty-five years ago. Encouraged by a therapist to recover lost memories, Jane hopes to find out what really took place when she was a child - and what happened to Natalie.

But as Jane learns the truth about her past, is she putting her own future at terrible risk?

Nicci French: The Memory Game. With a new introduction by Sophie Hannah. Penguin, ISBN: 9780141034133 (July, 2018), 416 p., £8.99.

Nicci French: The Memory Game (UK 2008)

From the Publisher:
YOU REMEMBER AN IDYLLIC CHILDHOOD. BUT YOUR MEMORY IS DECEITFUL. AND POSSIBLY DEADLY...
When a skeleton is unearthed in the Martellos' garden, Jane Martello is shocked to learn it's that of her childhood friend, Natalie, who went missing twenty-five years ago. Encouraged by a therapist to recover lost memories, Jane hopes to find out what really took place when she was a child - and what happened to Natalie.

But as Jane learns the truth about her past, is she putting her own future at terrible risk?

Nicci French: The Memory Game. Penguin, ISBN: 9780141034133 (March, 2008), 389 p., £7.99.

Nicci French: The Memory Game (USA 2007)

From the Publisher:
A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
Since she was young, Jane has always been fascinated by the grand old house that has been in her husband's family for generations. Now a struggling architect in a failed marriage, Jane looks forward to building an extension to the ancestral retreat... until the workers suddenly unearth a human skeleton in the garden. Even more shocking: the bones belong to Natalie Martello, Jane's childhood friend who went missing twenty-five years ago. Determined to find out what really happened, Jane begins to look into the tortuous Martello family history. But in unlocking the long-suppressed memories and dark secrets of the past, she may reawaken ancient dangerous sins -- and a killer close to her home and heart.

Nicci French: The Memory Game. Grand Central Publ., ISBN: 9780446619110 (October, 2007), 381 p., $22.99 (?).

Nicci French: The Memory Game (UK 1998)

From the Publisher:
When a skeleton is unearthed in the Martellos' garden, others rattle ominously in their cupboards. For the bones belong to their teenage daughter Natalie, who went missing twenty-five years ago, and the murderer must be very close to home...

Does Natalie's childhood friend Jane - now divorcing her brother - hold the key to the mystery? And are all their memories of a golden girl at the heart of an idyllic extended family about to prove false?

Nicci French: The Memory Game. Penguin, ISBN: 0140271295 (January, 1998), 389 p., £5.99.

Nicci French: The Memory Game (UK 1997)

From the Publisher:
ON AN AUTUMN MORNING, the body or a sixteen year-old girl is found buried in the garden of a country house in Shropshire. She is Natalie Martello and she has been missing for a quarter of a century, ever since she disappeared in the golden summer of 1968.

For her family, she represents lost hopes, dreams, and a terrible crime. long concealed. For she has been murdered. Who would have killed the brilliant and beautiful teenage girl? How could an apparently impossible crime have been committed?

Jane Martello, Natalie's closest friend and the wife or her brother, is at a crisis in her life. Tormented by the collaps of her marriage, and the murder at the heart of the family that has been her home, she embarks on an investigation.

Her search takes her among the secrets of a family and then into the recesses of her own memory. What she finds there exceeds her most terrible fears.

This is a novel about families and and their hidden worlds, about returning to the past and about leaving the past behind. It is also a thriller of rare power. Nicci French is a major new voice in British ficition.

Nicci French: The Memory Game. Heinemann, ISBN: 0434003093 (September, 1997), 323 p., £12.99.

Nicci French: The Memory Game (UK 1997)

From the Publisher:
ON AN AUTUMN MORNING, the body or a sixteen year-old girl is found buried in the garden of a country house in Shropshire. She is Natalie Martello and she has been missing for a quarter of a century, ever since she disappeared in the golden summer of 1968.

For her family, she represents lost hopes, dreams, and a terrible crime. long concealed. For she has been murdered. Who would have killed the brilliant and beautiful teenage girl? How could an apparently impossible crime have been committed?

Jane Martello, Natalie's closest friend and the wife or her brother, is at a crisis in her life. Tormented by the collaps of her marriage, and the murder at the heart of the family that has been her home, she embarks on an investigation.

Her search takes her among the secrets of a family and then into the recesses of her own memory. What she finds there exceeds her most terrible fears.

This is a novel about families and and their hidden worlds, about returning to the past and about leaving the past behind. It is also a thriller of rare power. Nicci French is a major new voice in British ficition.

Nicci French: The Memory Game. Heinemann, ISBN: 0434004421 (January, 1997), 323 p., £9.99.