Elise King · Book 1
Local Gone Missing
- Published
- 1 January 2022
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN-13
- 9781984803047
- Type
- novel
About this book
Fiona Barton opened her Elise King series in 2022 with Local Gone Missing, a 384-page novel centered on a man's disappearance during a festival in an English seaside town where longtime locals and wealthy weekenders eye each other with suspicion.
Its place in Elise King
Local Gone Missing is book 1 in the Elise King series. It is followed by Talking to Strangers. See the full Elise King reading order.
Fiona Barton's second series swaps her journalist protagonist for a police detective: Elise King, investigating crime in an English seaside community where longtime locals and wealthy weekenders eye each other with open suspicion. Local Gone Missing (2022) opens the series with a man's disappearance during a town festival; Talking to Strangers (2024) follows a Valentine's Day murder that draws in a reporter running her own parallel investigation -- a structural echo of the dual reporter/detective perspective…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781984803047
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781787630840
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780552175869