When She Was Gone
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4.1 • 7 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Was she taken … or did she run?
The pulse-pounding new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of You Don’t Know Me
Rose was torn away from her daughter. Now she may be the only one who can save her.
Former London police officer Rose Campbell has been estranged from her daughter, Lou, for almost a decade. But when Lou disappears from a remote beach in Western Australia—and the police suspect her of kidnapping the two young children in her care—Rose is asked to help bring Lou home.
This is the final case in DSS Mal Blackwood’s illustrious career—and there’s a lot riding on it. The missing children are heirs to the Fisher property empire, and while their multimillionaire grandfather is breathing down Blackwood’s neck, the media storm is intensifying. Faced with a deluge of evidence and accusations, Blackwood doesn’t know who he can trust.
Rose arrives in Australia intent on proving her daughter’s innocence, but how can she be sure of that when she’s no longer part of Lou’s life? Meanwhile, as Blackwood begins to expose the Fishers’ secrets, the investigation takes a dark turn. Shadows of the past gather around the Fishers—and Rose—and soon it’s clear that every hour is critical. What has happened to Lou and the children? And can Rose and Blackwood find them in time?
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Abuse takes many insidious forms in this mystery thriller from Sara Foster. After a nanny and two children from a high-powered Australian family go missing, the heat is on to find them. With the clock ticking ever more loudly, the young woman’s estranged mother and a soon-to-retire local detective desperately try to solve their disappearance before it’s too late. Foster comes at the story from multiple angles, but almost all of them deal smartly and bravely with the effects of abuse, ranging from emotional neglect to psychological cruelty to physical violence. The Fisher family’s complex dynamics seem to tick every box—along with some corporate misconduct to boot. There are shocking twists and almost unbearable tension, and all the while, Foster keeps us thinking about not just what will happen next, but how the characters arrived here in the first place.
