Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009.
This debut novel is a great page-turner with an endearing story
that's full of rich detail and beautifully written. It has a terrific
sense of place. Although the narrator is only 10 years old, the
content of this book is definitely going to appeal to teenagers and
adults. With a wonderful lightness of touch, the author intertwines
the feelings of adults as children keep disappearing in a compelling
and heart-felt way.
On the day Katharina Linden disappears, Pia is the last person to see her alive. Terror is spreading through the town. How could a ten-year-old girl vanish in a place where everybody knows everybody else? Pia is determined to find out what happened to Katharina. But then the next girl disappears.
Helen Grant was born in London. She read Classics at St Hugh’s
College, Oxford, and then worked in marketing for ten years in order to
fund her love of travelling. In 2001 she and her family moved to Bad
Münstereifel in Germany, and it was exploring the legends of this
beautiful town that inspired her to write her first novel. She now
lives in Brussels with her husband, her two children and a small German
cat.
