Whole Systems Design: Inquiries in the Knowing Field is an open invitation and an inspiration for Innovators, System Designers, Leaders, Change Agents, and Constellators-anyone who wishes to live and work from a whole systems perspective. It is for people new to working with complex systems as well as for those who will enjoy engaging with its practitioners, its concepts, and its emerging history. A group of friends traveling in Olivia’s car through rural Wiltshire is involved in a catastrophic car accident. It’s left the driver, Olivia, with serious injuries to her leg twenty years on. The girls were never seen again, and with no conclusion to their disappearance or the accident, she’s got a severe case of survivor’s guilt. She doesn’t know what happened to her friends, but she knows that it can’t be good. They’d never leave without telling their families – only one conclusion makes sense, and that’s that someone must have hurt them further. It’s not something she can dwell on. Kathryn, her cold and bitter daughter, resents Una's presence. More disturbing is evidence suggesting two girls lived here before her.

Few people do psychological thrillers as claustrophobic and as creepy as Claire Douglas' Tim Weaver Now:Journalist Jenna Halliday visits the close-knit community of Stafferbury to persuade Olivia to talk and solve the mystery of the girls’ disappearance. But Olivia won’t speak. Forensics indicate the bodies have been buried at least thirty years, which leads the police to question the cottage’s former owner – Saffy’s grandmother, Rose. Rose’s Alzheimer’s means her memory is increasingly confused. She can’t help the police – but it is clear she remembers something.

I thoroughly enjoyed seeing how all the pieces of the puzzle came together and thought that the local myth and legend, which had grown up around the small town, added this intriguing, extra dimension to the story. What starts out as a decidedly creepy and chilling cold case mystery becomes a cruel and disturbing domestic thriller, written by an author who only goes from strength to strength. The Girls Who Disappeared might well be Claire Douglas’ most complex and assured novel to date, and I thought it was exceptional. Don’t miss out on The Girls Who Disappeared. While I warmed to her for the most part, Jenna does have some moments of utter stupidity, such as when she takes off on her own through the woods near where someone’s been found dead, for example. I found myself repeatedly telling her that no-one knew where she was and wouldn’t be able to help, if she ran into trouble. But moments like those also helped to make her more relatable as a character. After all, she’s a journalist under pressure to deliver by a deadline and desperate to get to the bottom of a 20-year-old mystery. And besides, sometimes it’s all too tempting to take off and do things on impulse. Jess and Heather were once best friends – until the night Heather’s sister Flora vanished. The night that lies tore their friendship apart. Twenty years ago, three young friends vanished from the scene of an accident, which left another badly injured. Now in Claire Douglas’ The Girls Who Disappeared, journalist Jenna Halliday arrives in town to cover the milestone anniversary, only to discover that loss, secrets and local lore still haunt the place and its inhabitants.

Libby Hall needs to escape from everything for a while. which is why the house swap is a godsend. The chance for Libby and her husband Jamie to exchange their tiny Bath flat for a beautiful haven on the wild Cornish coast. Genres: Fiction, Thrillers, Crime, Suspense, Psychological, Family Life, General, Mystery & Detective I received this book for free from the Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. The Girls Who Disappeared by Claire Douglas Claire’s books have been published in fifteen countries. She lives in Bath with her husband, children and two very fluffy cats.

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