Local Gone Missing - Fiona Barton (Bantam Press)
Whilst on sick leave, recovering from evasive breast cancer surgery, Detective Elise King, stumbles into a missing persons case that ends up as a murder case. She must unravel a complicated web of individual story lines to get to the facts and the real narrative behind what seems like a simple case of a beloved old man simply disappearing. Like a complicated version of Midsomer Murders this story is set in a small village, with local gossips and NIMBY's all over - a seaside town where the locals and weekenders are at odds with each other in this rich and captivating new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow. Detective Elise King successful and ambitious. At least she was before her medical leave left her unsure and insecure. She spent most days watching the growing tensions between neighbours in Ebbing, the small seaside town she lives in. A place where weekenders renovating old bungalows roar in to town in their BMW's o...
