Twenty years ago Olivia Rutherford Along with her three friends were coming home from a night out. She was the designated driver.. It was a nasty stormy night & there was an accident. Olivia was very badly hurt & trapped by her legs in the car but her three friends had disappeared without trace. As the anniversary of their disappearance approaches Jenna- an investigative journalist come to the Wiltshire town to do an in depth podcast. The town is pretty famous for it's stone circle & The Devil's Corridor- a road which has witnessed eerie happenings. She is staying at a woodland lodge & out of season it is a scary place. However Jenna is not one to be easily put off- even when it is obvious that there are things that people want to keep secret.

The real plus for this book was the brilliantly crafted atmosphere of the setting which was truly chilling. I like Jenna & admired her tenacity. I don't know where the book suddenly stopped being engaging & began to be confusing & hard to believe, even so I had to see it through. Thanks to Netgallery & the publisher for letting me read & review this book.

What a winner ! I loved this twisty tale. Clair Douglas has you on the edge of your seat right from the beginning and keeps you on a white knuckle ride to the end. Loved it !

Mystery of 3 girls who go missing after a night out, with the one who remained not talking about it for 20 years. A journalist creating a podcast revisiting the event of the missing teens interviews the parents of some of the girls and eventually, the girl who had not talked gave her side of the story.

I really enjoyed this, I did wonder what the stuff abroad had to do with it all, but towards the end, it all fell into place and made sense, and it joined the stories up nicely.

I received this book from Netgalley in return for a honest review.

In a rural Wilshire town lies The Devil's Corridor. A road which has witnessed eerie happenings from unexplained deaths to the sounds of a child crying at night. Four girls drove home but after their car crashed only Olivia was found.
Fast forward twenty years later and journalist Jenna Halliday is working on a podcast to try to uncover the mystery but the locals aren't happy with this stranger's arrival. Least of all Olivia.
This is a clever, eerie, dark, thriller that will keep you guessing throughout, and with enough twists to throw you off the scent again and again.
Highly recommended!

When journalist Jenna Halliday is sent to Wiltshire to investigate the case of four teenage girls who disappeared after a car crash on the infamous 'Devil's Corridor' 20 years ago, she soon finds that her questioning and desire for answers is most unwelcome in the town.

Olivia Rutherford, the one survivor of the crash, has led a secretive and quiet life since that dreaded night but does she know more than she is letting on?

Following two different timelines we move between the past and present in an attempt to patch up the pieces of this mystery.

This book is very atmospheric and it does get the reader wondering if the mystery is a result of supernatural causes after we hear of a range of weird and eerie events.

I enjoyed this book and was eager to find out what had happened to the girls and the ending didn't let me down and it was something that I would not have guessed at all.

I would highly recommend 'The Girls who disappeared'.

Had me hooked from the off -Twenty years ago 4 girls were involved in a car crash . When one of them came to -the other 3 had vanished never to be seen again !
Brilliant read -I have a new author !

Thankyou NetGalley for an ARC in return for an honest review

This is a very well written and considered book by one of my favourite authors, Claire Douglas. Started and finished in a very short time as I couldn’t put it down.

Investigative journalist Jenna Halliday has come to a small village in rural Wiltshire to investigate the disappearance of three teenage girls twenty years ago. She aims to speak with the only survivor or a crash that the four friends had been involved in, although only Olivia was found in the wreckage.

The book also journeys back in time with a parallel story, set in Thailand, which until the end looks like it has little to do with what happened or why.

Excellent storyline and really pacy. Good characters and all of them seem involved, suspicious and have the potential to be involved at some stage.

Highly recommended.

Thanks to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

Claire Douglas is a must read author for me! I found The Girls Who Disappeared completely surprised me as it didn’t go in any of the directions that I was expecting and I loved that! Lots of twists and turns and I could NOT work out how the “holiday of a lifetime” was connected to the main storyline! Lots of unlikeable and dodgy characters but Jenna, the journalist stood out for me as a character I would love to meet again. Highly recommended!

Three missing girls. A twenty year mystery. A woman who may be able to crack this cold case.
In a rural Wilshire town lies The Devil's Corridor. A road which has witnessed eerie happenings from unexplained deaths to the sounds of a child crying at night.
But nothing more puzzling than the Olivia Rutherford case. Four girls drove home but after their car crashed only Olivia was found.
Twenty years later, journalist Jenna Halliday is covering the case. But the locals aren't happy with this stranger's arrival. Least of all Olivia.
Jenna soon starts receiving threatening notes and it is clear someone wants her out of this town before she suffers a dark fate . . .

This is a brilliant read.
Wonderful well written plot and story line that had me engaged from the start.
Love the well fleshed out characters and found them believable.
Great suspense and found myself second guessing every thought I had continuously.
Can't wait to read what the author brings out next.
Recommend reading.

I was provided an ARC from NetGalley and the publisher. This is my own honest voluntary review.

This was another spine tingling and not put down able book! Love the mystery and intrigue and never guessing the culprit. Brilliant!!

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Twenty years before, four young women were involved in a car crash but only one was found. Now Jenna, a podcaster and journalist, arrives for the anniversary to try and resolve the mystery. The story is told through Jenna and Olivia alternatively and does begin quite slowly as Ms Douglas sets the scene and the other characters. It builds up to a great conclusion and will not disappoint.

Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC to review.

Wow!! What a read. I was hooked from the start. I couldn't read this book fast enough to find out what had happened all those years ago. It was such a great plot and done so well that I never sussed it out.
I really liked Jenna and Olivia; great female characters who felt real. I enjoyed that as well as the real gritty story about the missing girls, there were other parts to it. It was such a fab read.

Thank you for NetGalley for providing me with this book for review. Well I was very excited to be given the opportunity to read this book, I wasn't let down, thoroughly enjoyed this book. Read it in one sitting.

Twisty atmospheric book.
This book keeps the reader engaged throughout, it is well paced and the characters are believable.
Who has secrets? Who do you trust, especially if you are a lone female journalist stating in a fairly isolated cabin while you research a twenty year old mystery.
An enjoyable read with all loose ends tied by the end.

I really enjoyed this book and the creepy feeling it provides. It has a supernatural feel to it throughout and you don't want to trust anyone but as Jenna gets into the thick of it, you start to discover the secrets and lies. There are 2 stories in one and at first it is very confusing as you don't know the connection but it all comes together in a satisfying way at the end. Full of thrills and twists, this is the perfect book for mystery and crime lovers.

This was a twisty and compulsive read from Claire Douglas and I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed the podcast angle, and a slightly different twist on the standard police procedural. This was very much an easy read and one I'd recommend for some escapist fiction!

I love a good mystery to solve and was very excited to get stuck into this one. From the start I had a lot of questions and theories about what had happened to the three missing girls. Something didn't seem to add up and there were a lot of characters that gave me cause for concern.

In amongst this story happening in the fictional town of Stafferbury we had another story taking place in Thailand. I was completely thrown by this part as it seemed completely random. I wondered if and how it connected to the other story and once again it didn't take long for the theories to start forming.

I honestly found parts of this story scary, especially when Jenna was alone in the woods. I felt my heart in my throat on many occasions scared for what might happen and slowly but surely everyone became a suspect in my mind.

Claire Douglas instantly pulls the reader in takes you on a roller-coaster ride with twists and turns hurtled at you towards the end. I was taken by surprise at the final revelations and hadn't foreseen some of them, which is always a sign of a good book!

I think this is the first book I've read by Douglas, and it was such a page turner! The 'podcaster investigating a cold case' is a trope I find normally works really well in thrillers (are 'tropes' still a thing in genres other than romances?) and this didn't disappoint. 

Cleverly plotted, vivid characters, dual timelines and perspectives, unreliable narrators and a gloomy, haunting setting, this had all the parts to add up to the perfect Autumn vibes thriller. The opening chapter was gripping and eerie, and grabbed my attention straight away, and there were so many secrets and unanswered questions, right up to the end of the book. 

My only complaint is there was a LOT of repetition from Jenna about her crumbling marriage and ex, which I found was irrelevant to the plot and could have been cut down to a few mentions. Other than that, Douglas wrote a brilliant mix of mystery and psychological thriller, with a creepy, atmospheric first half, and a second half of action-packed twists.

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 @𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭 (𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮) 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘈𝘮𝘢𝘻𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦.

𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐫: 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐲 𝐞𝐀𝐑𝐂 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐲 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 - 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐰𝐧.

The Girls Who Disappeared
By Claire Douglas

20 years ago on a rainy night, four girls are involved in a car accident following a night out, but only one of them is ever found in the car, The other three have disappeared and never seen again.

20 years on Journalist Jenna Halliday visits Stafferbury to investigate the girls disappearances for her podcast she's working on with the hope to speak to the only remaining girl from that night Olivia Rutherford, but Jenna maybe about to find out more secrets are hidden in this small town.

My first book by this Author and it certainly won't be my last. This had me gripped from the start.
A great storyline, with additional story along the way which kept you gripped and guessing how it was related. Full of twists and turns throughout.

Thank you for the chance to read this Michael Joesph, Penquin random house and netgalley.

The Girls Who Disappeared was a fast paced, page turner of a read. It kept me guessing all the way through with all the twists and turns and I was quite surprised by the ending.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for my ARC.