Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to read and review “The Girls Who Disappeared”!

A journalist seeks to uncover the truth of a 20-year-old accident that left 3 girls missing and 1 mysteriously alive. Jenne Halliday gets more than she bargained for in her week-long stay in Stafferbury, turning the entire town on its' head.

I was hooked on the book immediately. I cared about Jenna's 1st person dialogue and Olivia's 3rd person dialogue. However, some flashback scenes left me confused for too long, and I found myself skimming over those to get back to the main storylines.

I enjoyed the twists and turns the story took. I saw some of the twists coming, but others took me by total surprise. Overall an enjoyable read!

This thriller was clever, well put together, decently paced. I definitely didn't see those twists coming. I really enjoyed this book, it had me hooked from the very beginning. The setting of this book was also really good!

Claire Douglas has a great writing style for a mystery novel. It had a great concept for the mystery and I had enjoyed the other books from Claire Douglas. The plot was what I was looking for and was glad that it was so well done. The characters worked in this plot and I enjoyed what was going on with them.

"John-Paul cast his eyes over to their group of friends. Maggie and Martin were now in the pool too. Derreck stood on the edge, fully clothed, his body angled in their direction, a hand shielding his face."

Hello Claire Douglas, nice to read you again! “The Girls Who Disappeared”; has whispers of “The Couple at No. 9” in that the stylistic elements are similar. Claire, builds up the story and the tension very slowly, she introduces us to the characters, and the backgrounds of said characters, all very solid with this author. Whereas, “The Couple at No. 9 is slow to build and arrive, this new one is BOOM!!!

The story is about a car crash some years ago, where Olivia, after having come conscious, realizes her car mates are gone? Hi, creepy! Twenty years later, the car mates are still missing. In comes Jenna, a journalist on the tear to make a podcast about the events, of course, new interest brings up old secrets. the story is told from actually 3 POV’s? We have the main character Jenna, who does most of the story telling, and we have Olivia, who chimes in, and then a mysterious third narrator. This makes for a very dynamic and zippy story, as one is trying to figure everything out, not what only happened to the missing girls, but what the third narrator has to do with anything, while she is vacationing with friends elsewhere??? Oh, Clever, Ms. Douglas, vey clever. Although, suspension of disbelief is needed towed the end, the story is vey well told, and I found the ending satisfying enough.


Thanks to NetGalley and the Publisher for an advanced eARC, in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own,

I think I was expecting more from this book because I was very excited for it. It was not bad in any sense, but I was confused by the flashback chapters (not in a good way), and while I was not expecting the final twist, I also was not impressed by it. I might be critiquing this book too hard though because I wanted it to be better.

The Girls Who Disappeared is a creepy thriller with lots of buried secrets and identities set in an atmospheric countryside. It is a fast paced book, although I did find it could be a bit shorter to tighten up the thrills.

Twenty years in the past Olivia was driving home with her three friends. They took the devils corridor to get home - a haunted place to be sure. Suddenly a man steps in the road and Olivia crashes to avoid hitting him. When she wakes up the three friends are gone without a single clue. The mystery is not solved and the characters go on with their lives.

In the present, a reporter/podcaster by the name of Jenna Halliday, comes to investigate and report on this cold case. To do so she begins to dig in to things no-one wants touched. The more she learns the more her life is put at risk.

thanks to the author, publisher and netgalley for the arc