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.
Key facts about Local Gone Missing
Fiona Barton wrote Local Gone Missing, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2022. The book has 384 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781984803047 to find the main one.
Local Gone Missing is book 1 of 2 in the Elise King series. The series has 2 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Fiona Barton writes Kate Waters as a separate series. Those series sit on our mystery shelf. Meanwhile, Talking to Strangers is the latest published Fiona Barton book on file, from 2024.
About Fiona Barton
Fiona Barton was born in 1957 in Cambridge, England, and spent decades as a British tabloid journalist before turning to fiction -- senior writer at the Daily Mail, news editor at the Daily Telegraph, and chief reporter at the Mail on Sunday, where she won Reporter of the Year at the National Press Awards. See every Fiona Barton book in order.
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