Losing You - Softcover

French, Nicci

3.58

5,360 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312943164 ISBN 13: 9780312943165

Publisher: Minotaur Books, 2009

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As she prepares to leave for a vacation, Nina Landry waits for her daughter, Charlie, to return from her friend's house, but Nina begins to worry when Charlie does not come home and no one will take her disappearance seriously.

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Review:

"Lose yourself in this smart nail-biter of a tale about a mother's desperate search for her missing teenage daughter."-"People "magazine"A seamless first-person account...This engrossing read captures the importance of the often overlooked and underappreciated minutiae of everyday life while commanding a deeply personal reaction in readers."-"Publishers Weekly "(starred review) "What gives "Losing You" its chief distinction...is its unusually emotive color and its flinty protagonist.... Nina is the parent we'd all like to be under duress, and I find I've become nearly as protective of her as she is of her daughter."-Salon.com "The pace and tension accelerate as the identity of Charlie's abductor remains deliciously uncertain. This is a quick, enjoyable read."-"Library Journal" "[French] renders psychological chillers that manage to generate great susp "Lose yourself in this smart nail-biter of a tale about a mother's desperate search for her missing teenage daughter."--"People "magazine"A seamless first-person account...This engrossing read captures the importance of the often overlooked and underappreciated minutiae of everyday life while commanding a deeply personal reaction in readers."--"Publishers Weekly "(starred review) "What gives "Losing You" its chief distinction...is its unusually emotive color and its flinty protagonist.... Nina is the parent we'd all like to be under duress, and I find I've become nearly as protective of her as she is of her daughter."--Salon.com "The pace and tension accelerate as the identity of Charlie's abductor remains deliciously uncertain. This is a quick, enjoyable read."--"Library Journal" "[French] renders psychological chillers that manage to generate great suspense... This latest offering is sure to keep readers furiously flipping pages through the night."--"Booklist""The novel's greatest strength is its cool-eyed portrait of an English village"--"The Washington Post" "Nicci French know[s] exactly how to maintain the tension...You live through every nail-biting minute."--"The Guardian" "The heart pounds from the first page...This is a book that keeps you reading into the small hours."--"The Observer" (UK) Praise for Nicci French "Nicci French . . . know[s] exactly how to maintain the tension . . . You live through every nail-biting minute."--"The Guardian" (UK) on "Losing You" "They have mastered suspense . . . The heart pounds from the first page . . . This is a book that keeps you reading into the small hours."--"The Observer" (UK) on "Losing You" "Nicci French has become synonymous with suspense."--"New York Daily News" on "Catch Me When I Fall" "Nicci French is a specialist in the kind of evil that burrows from within."--"The New York Times Book Review" on "Secret Smile" "Suspenseful from the start and ending with a brilliant twist."--"People," "Page-turner of the Week," on "The Red Room" "Genuine chills and page-turning suspense."--"Entertainment Weekly" on "Land of the Living"

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“Engrossing.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)

It’s the morning of Nina Landry’s fortieth birthday. She’s supposed to have her kids ready to leave for the Christmas holidays with her new boyfriend. But her fifteen-year-old daughter, Charlie, is not yet home. She spent the night at a friend’s, and now she is nowhere to be found. As time passes slower and slower by the hour, Nina’s worry builds to panic.

“Unusually emotive.”—Salon.com

Has Charlie run away, or has something worse happened? And why won’t anyone—not the cops, not Charlie’s friends, not Charlie’s father—take her disappearance seriously? As day turns to night and a series of ominous revelations leads Nina from sickening suspicion to blood-chilling certainty, she comes to the desperate realization that she has no one to turn to...but herself.

“The pace and tension accelerate as the identity of Charlie’s abductor remains deliciously uncertain.”—Library Journal

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