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Also by Claire Douglas:

The Family Friend, March 2027
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The New Neighbors, February 2026
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
The New Neighbors, February 2026
Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
The Wrong Sister, August 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
The Woman Who Lied, August 2024
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The Girls Who Disappeared, January 2023
Paperback / e-Book
The Couple at Number 9, August 2022
Paperback / e-Book
Just Like The Other Girls, January 2022
Paperback / e-Book
Then She Vanishes, August 2021
Paperback / e-Book
Last Seen Alive, August 2018
Paperback / e-Book
Local Girl Missing, July 2017
Paperback / e-Book
The Sisters, June 2016
Paperback / e-Book

THEN SHE VANISHES
By: Claire Douglas

Harper Paperbacks
August 2021
On Sale: August 3, 2021
448 pages
ISBN: 0063001551
EAN: 9780063001558
Kindle: B08MFKBYPX
Paperback / e-Book
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Fiction | Thriller Crime

“Then She Vanishes lifts the stone on a cold case disappearance and asks chilling questions about friendship, loyalty, love, and obsession.”—New York Times bestselling author Gilly Macmillan

A twisty, compulsive thriller full of jolting shocks and startling secrets involving two sisters, a disappearance, a double murder, and a reporter determined to find the truth from the bestselling author of Local Girl Missing, Last Seen Alive, and Do Not Disturb.

Everything changed the night she disappeared . . .

On a summer's night in 1994, sixteen-year-old Flora Powell vanished from her sleepy seaside town without a trace. Their hearts shattered, Flora’s mother, her sister Heather, and Heather’s best friend Jess had to somehow carry on not knowing what happened.

Twenty-five years later, tragedy strikes again when Heather walks into a stranger's house and allegedly kills two people in cold blood.

Why would this loving wife and doting new mother commit such a heinous crime? Jess, now a reporter, returns to the hometown she left behind to cover the case and dig for answers. But this isn’t like any other story. Jess was like a sister to the Powell girls, until the summer that tore them all apart.

What happened to the girl she used to know? 

The question haunts Jess and propels her to find the key that may unlock the mysteries involving both sisters. But the search may reveal more . . . a darker side to this idyllic place she thought she knew.