Local Gone Missing

By: Fiona Barton

Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister, Jayne Entwistle, Nicholas Guy Smith

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Detective Elise King investigates a man’s disappearance in a seaside town where the locals and weekenders are at odds with each other in this suspenseful new novel from the #1 bestselling author of The Widow.

Elise King is a successful and ambitious detective—or she was before a medical leave left her unsure if she'd ever return to work. She now spends most days watching the growing tensions in her small seaside town of Ebbing—the weekenders renovating old bungalows into luxury homes, and the locals resentful of the changes.

Elise can only guess what really happens behind closed doors. But Dee Eastwood, her house cleaner, often knows. She’s an invisible presence in many of the houses in town, but she sees and hears everything.

The conflicts boil over when a newcomer wants to put the town on the map with a giant music festival, and two teenagers overdose on drugs. When a man disappears the first night of the festival, Elise is drawn back into her detective work and starts digging for answers. Ebbing is a small town, but it's full of secrets and hidden connections that run deeper and darker than Elise could have ever imagined.

©2022 Fiona Barton (P)2022 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

"In the community of Ebbing, Fiona Barton has created a town full of suspense and a cast of characters with so many reasons to keep secrets buried deep. A dark and twisty read."—Nita Prose, New York Times bestselling author of The Maid

"Tense and full of reveals and twists. This compulsively dark mystery is a joy to read. Fiona Barton never disappoints!"—Lesley Kara, international bestselling author of The Rumor

Couldnt put it down!

A must read, I totally loved it. Lots of twists and turns! You will enjoy this. :)

Very literary, not so much mystery

The murder didn't take place until halfway thru the book. Narration was good, writing was fine, but the mystery plotting was meh.

Enjoyable read

I have liked every book by Fiona Barton and this one was no exception. Although I knew who did it from the start it was enjoyable to find out how things played out.

Good book

Good writing. Kept my attention. I can be very picky, but this was a good choice. Nothing too gory, characters were well developed, story continued at a solid even pace. Narration was perfect.

another good one by Fiona Barton

she is just such a good story teller! the pace is always good..and the narrators made it even better

Interesting Mystery Plot Gone Missing

This book is so boring and slow moving. It is not engaging at all. There is zero character development...maybe this book is in the middle of a series and we were expected to already know about the main characters? All I know is they were bland and cookie cutter, a perfect maych for the dull plot with an obvious resolution. I saw it coming a mile away. It felt like a throwaway book written to fulfill a contract, not a book written because the author had a compelling story to tell. Skip it, unless it's free...even then, there are better free books than this one.