The Reappearance of Rachel Price
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4.4 • 116 Ratings
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- £6.49
Publisher Description
THE STUNNING NO.1 BESTSELLING YA THRILLER FROM HOLLY JACKSON, AUTHOR OF NETFLIX’S A GOOD GIRLS GUIDE TO MURDER
'The queen of YA crime Holly Jackson returns with a blisteringly good standalone thriller' – Observer
'An instantly gripping, corkscrew-twisty thriller’ – The Guardian
'Holly Jackson has smashed it again.’ – The Nerd Daily
Shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2024 and winner of the Books are My Bag YA Award 2024
18-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness. Rachel is gone, presumed dead.
The case is dragged up from the past when the Price family agree to a true crime documentary. Bel can’t wait for filming to end, for life to go back to normal. But then Rachel Price reappears, and life will never be normal again …
Holly Jackson was 'BookTok Author of the Year' at the 2023 TikTok Book Awards.
The Reappearance of Rachel Price was No 1 in the Sunday Times Children’s bestseller listings on Sunday 14/4/2024 and in the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover listings on Wednesday 10/4/2024
Reviews
Praise for Rachel Price:
'Holly Jackson returns with a blisteringly good standalone thriller’ – Observer
'An instantly gripping, corkscrew-twisty thriller’ – The Guardian
'Holly Jackson has smashed it again. It is a lit fuse that explodes in dramatic fashion, but also always stays focused on the characters at its heart. This is a twisty, ambiguous book that thrives in its entangled relationships, unpicking the secrets hidden within.’ – The Nerd Daily
Praise for Holly Jackson:
‘Jackson is the queen of young adult novels’ Independent
‘A blisteringly good standalone thriller.’ The Observer on Five Survive, YA Books of the Year, 4/12/2022
‘A thrill ride.’ The Guardian
“Holly Jackson, the OG of UK YA thriller writers, has written one of her most exciting novels yet. Five Survive, my Book of the Month, is about a group of teens who set off on a trip for spring break; when they find themselves under attack, they must work out who is trying to shoot them—and why. Set over the course of just a few hours, this taut thriller will keep readers hooked.” – Charlotte Eyre, The Bookseller
The Good Girl’s Guide to Murder trilogy
‘A taut, compulsively readable, elegantly plotted thriller' - Guardian
'Jackson ensnares readers in another highly addictive web, woven from the dark shadows of small-town secrets.’ – The Observer
“As Good As Dead is a phenomenal mystery that deserves to be one of the books of the year and provides a stellar finale to a knockout series.” – Nerd Daily
'A fiendishly-plotted mystery that kept me guessing until the very end.' – Laura Purcell, bestselling author of The Silent Companions
'Twisty, compulsive and so, so clever' – Savannah Brown, author of The Truth About Keeping Secrets
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Jackson (Five Survive) delivers a commanding performance in this smart, meticulously crafted thriller. When Annabel "Bel" Price was 22 months old, she was left alone in the back seat of her mother's car, with the adult nowhere to be found. Sixteen years later, the prickly 18-year-old's mother is still missing, and Bel's big questions—Was she abandoned? Was her mother abducted?—have never been answered. The arrival of a film crew, which is working with the Price family to record a documentary about the mystery, exacerbates unhealed wounds and dredges up long-buried memories and old conspiracies. Bel is convinced that her mother ran away; the town believes that Bel's father killed her, even though he was exonerated; and Bel's paternal grandfather, who has dementia, doesn't remember anything. It's only when Bel's mother suddenly reappears that the real mystery begins. Via Bel's acerbic multilayered first-person narration, Jackson keeps the intricate plot—punctuated with twist after shocking twist—firmly in hand, doling out clues that will have readers guessing right along with the characters. The protagonists read as white. Ages 14–up.
Customer Reviews
Great read!
Lots of twists and turns, a real page turner! Read it in two days, highly recommend.
A slow burn
I found the book jarring and lacking in flow at first but once it got going I was gripped. The story took a long time and the ending was fast although it was full of twists and turns and intrigue.
one of the best books ive ever read
instantly became one of my favourite books