NICCI FRENCH

Shes 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 Alecs 50th birthday party, her kids are worried, but Alec is not. As the days pass and theres 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 mothers killer is potentially very close to home.NowAfter 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 mothers disappearance.But when their childhood friends, Greg and Morgen Ackerley, decide to do a podcast about Charlottes disappearance, it seems like the towns 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?

When psychotherapist Frieda Klein left the sleepy Suffolk coastal town in which she grew up, she never intended to return. Left behind were friends, family, lives and loves but alongside them, painful memories; a past she wouldn''t allow to destroy her.Then, years later, an old classmate appears in London, asking Frieda to help her teenage daughter, and long-buried memories resurface. Death soon follows, leaving Frieda no choice but to return home to confront her past. And the monsters no one else believed were real . . .Through a fog of conflicting accounts, hidden agendas and questionable alibis, Frieda can trust no one as she tries to piece together the shocking truth, past and present. Before another innocent dies.

Psychotherapist Frieda Klein finds she has an unusually personal connection with DCI Karlsson''s latest case. She is no longer working with him in an official capacity, but when her niece befriends Ruth Lennox''s son, Ted, she finds herself in the awkward position of confidante to both Karlsson and Ted. When it emerges that Ruth was leading a secret life, her family closes ranks and Karlsson finds he needs Frieda''s help more than ever before.But Frieda is distracted.Having survived an attack on her life, she is struggling to stay in control and when a patient''s chance remark rings an alarm bell, she finds herself chasing down a path that seems to lead to a serial killer who has long escaped detection. Or is it merely a symptom of her own increasingly fragile mind? Because, as Frieda knows, every step closer to a killer is one more step into a darkness from which there may be no return...

Young and athletic, London cycle courier Astrid Bell is bad luck - for other people. First Astrid's neighbour Peggy Farrell accidentally knocks her off her bike - and not long after is found bludgeoned to death. Then a few days later, Astrid is asked to pick up a package from a wealthy woman called Ingrid de Soto, only to find the client murdered in the hall of her luxurious home.

Bonnie Graham is in her friends flat. She is alone, except for the dead body lying in a pool of blood. What happened? What will she do? And is any or all of it her fault? Bonnie is a music teacher who has spent a long, hot summer in London rehearsing with a band.

Thirteen years ago eighteen-year-old Hannah Docherty was arrested for the brutal murder of her family. It was an open and shut case and Hannah''s been incarcerated in a secure hospital ever since.When psychotherapist Frieda Klein is asked to meet Hannah and give her assessment of her she reluctantly agrees. What she finds horrifies her. And Frieda is haunted by the thought that Hannah might be as much of a victim as her family; that something wasn''t right all those years ago.And as Hannah''s case takes hold of her, Frieda soon begins to realise that she''s up against someone who''ll go to any lengths to protect themselves.

When psychotherapist Frieda Klein left the sleepy Suffolk coastal town in which she grew up she never intended to return. Left behind were friends, family, lives and loves but alongside them, painful memories; a past she wouldn't allow to destroy her. Years later, an old classmate appears in London asking Frieda to help her teenage daughter. When death follows, Frieda has no choice but to return home to confront her past. And the monsters no one else believed were real...Frieda can trust no one as she tries to piece together the shocking truth, before another innocent dies.

Cycle courier Astrid Bell is bad luck - for other people. First Astrids neighbour Peggy accidentally knocks her off her bike - and not long after is found bludgeoned to death in an alley. Then a few days later, Astrid is asked to pick up a package - only to find the client slashed to pieces in the hall of her own home.

Miranda Cotton thinks shes put boyfriend Brendan out of her life for good. But two weeks later, hes intimately involved with her sister. Soon what began as an embarrassment becomes threatening - then even more terrifying than a girls worst nightmare.

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.

The Memory Game is a haunting psychological thriller from the Top Ten bestselling author, Nicci French 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 in learning the truth about hers and Natalie's past, is Jane putting her own future at terrible risk?

Holly Krauss is a city girl burning the candle at both ends. Despite a comfortable home life, a tough job and friends who admire her, she secretly enjoys taking reckless, dangerous walks on the wild side. But Holly cant keep those worlds separate forever. Soon enough her secret life bleeds into her safe one and everything spirals out of control.

You wake in the dark, gagged and bound. A man visits you, feeds you. And tells you that he will kill you - just like all the rest. Abbie Devereaux doesnt know where she is or how she got there. Shes so terrified she can barely remember her own name - and shes sure of just one thing: that she will survive this nightmare.

Ellie Faulkners world has been destroyed. Her husband Greg died in a car crash - and he wasnt alone. In the passenger seat was the body of Milena Livingstone - a woman Ellies never heard of. But Ellie refuses to leap to the obvious conclusion, despite the whispers and suspicions of those around her.

Nina Landry is supposed to be taking her two children on a Christmas holiday today. But the road away from Sandling Island seems littered with obstacles. Most pressing of all, her fifteen-year-old daughter, Charlie, has yet to return from a night out... Minute by minute, Nina's unease builds to worry and then panic. Has Charlie run away? Or has something more sinister happened to her? And why will nobody take her disappearance seriously? As a series of half-buried secrets leads Nina 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.

Lorsqu'elle surprend son petit ami en train de lire son journal intime, Miranda met aussitôt fin à leur liaison.Brendan a beau être un fiancé idéal, aimable, souriant, disponible, elle ne peut suppor