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Also by Claire Douglas:

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

LOCAL GIRL MISSING
By: Claire Douglas

Harper
July 2017
On Sale: July 4, 2017
352 pages
ISBN: 0062661159
EAN: 9780062661159
Kindle: B01M22B8EN
Paperback / e-Book
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Suspense | Mystery

Someone knows where she is…

The old Victorian pier was a thing of beauty until it was allowed to decay. It was where the youth of Oldcliffe-on- Sea would go to hang out. It’s also where twenty-one- year-old Sophie Collier disappeared eighteen years ago.

Francesca Howe, known as Frankie, was Sophie’s best friend, and even now she is haunted by the mystery of what happened to her. When Frankie gets a call from Sophie’s brother, Daniel, informing her that human remains have been found washed up nearby, she immediately wonders if it could be Sophie, and returns to her old hometown to try and find closure. Now an editor at a local newspaper, Daniel believes that Sophie was terrified of someone and that her death was the result of foul play rather than “death by misadventure,” as the police claim.

Daniel arranges a holiday rental for Frankie that overlooks the pier where Sophie disappeared. In the middle of winter and out of season, Frankie feels isolated and unnerved, especially when she is out on the pier late one night and catches a glimpse of a woman who looks like Sophie. Is the pier really haunted, as they joked all those years ago? Could she really be seeing her friend’s ghost? And what actually happened to her best friend all those years ago?

Harrowing, electrifying, and thoroughly compelling, Local Girl Missing showcases once again bestselling author Claire Douglas’ extraordinary storytelling talent.