Local Girl Missing (2016)

by Claire Douglas

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Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. HTML: 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. .… (more)

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JayneMitchell | Nov 13, 2023 |

Not as strong as a later book of hers I read. This one is too sentimental and soppy. I get that teenagers have no sense of proportion when it comes to emotions, but 40-year-olds should and so the contemporary time frame feels wrong. Can't these people get some distance and deal with things? Dumb decisions and snap judgements speak of teenagers again. Grow up already, people. And the whole addressing the narrative to the dead Sophie is grating and juvenile.

Almost 1/2 way through and it's just too repetitive. The envelopes. The fights with men who shouldn't matter this much to Frankie. Weird encounters and asshole locals. Enough already. Get on with the plot.

Where is the pacing? Must be trapped in amber.

The whole Sophie/Alister thing is just gross in the extreme. Why is she so passive? Why is he such a moron? Ditto with the Mike/Frankie thing - he takes it into his head to drive up to her when she broke it off on the phone of all ways and is then pissed when she doesn't welcome him as savior. WTF men? When women aren't all sweetness and light it's automatically her fault if you're crossing a line or being pushy. Take no for an answer and that's it.

The repetitive scenes are getting to me. Am going to bail soon. Another DNF from the library. I thought I'd get on with this author, but she's blown it.

Bookmarque | Aug 14, 2023 |

I received this book through the publishers and netgalley

This was a very cleverly written murder mystery with twists and turns here and there.

I am one of those people who watches a thriller on TV and tries to guess the outcome, the same goes with my reading and I am often right in the conclusion. Not in this case!!! By Jiminy, this had me gripped, I really could not wait for the next page.

I cannot recommend this Mystery/Thriller enough, you can leave your magnifying glass at home for this one Sherlock, as you will never second guess this one.

I give this book 10/10

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TheReadingShed01 | Feb 25, 2023 |

It was OK but I was glad when it was finished (

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daaft | Aug 13, 2022 |

In Local Girl Missing, you can read about how Francesca returns to Oldcliffe-on-Sea after learning through a conversation with a childhood friend that a body has been found washed up at the pier where her best friend Sophie disappeared eighteen years ago. Parallelly in the book do we also learn what happened to Sophie through her diary notes. Both the present-day story and childhood notes are interesting to follow.

The best psychological thrillers are those that confuse, make one doubt what is going on and distrust the main character and all other characters of course. They are hopefully also page-turners, preferably with short chapters that turn" just one more chapter" into a binge reading marathon with the book done around midnight or later.

Local Girl Missing has all these elements. Perhaps not so many surprising twists, but the book definitely has the paranoid feeling that makes you think something is wrong thanks to all the things that happen to Francesca. If it's something I like it's when you start to question the main character, is she really so innocent, is she mad or is someone really out to get her? And, what really happened to Sophie Coller eighteen years earlier?

Claire Douglas has written an excellent psychological thriller, it only took me one day to finish it thanks to the interesting and addictive story and I look forward to reading her other books.

Thanks to Louise Bäckelin Förlag for the review copy! (

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MaraBlaise | Jul 23, 2022 |

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Claire Douglas	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Fox, Emilia	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Marinović, Ivana	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Murray, Hannah	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Paassen, Catalien van	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Paassen, Willem van	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Thiele, Sabine	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Wiberg, Carla	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Sophie Collier

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Oldcliffe, Engeland, Verenigd Koninkrijk

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Voor mijn man, Ty

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It's a dreary afternoon, just after lunch, when I finally find out that you're dead.

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Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:

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.

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