Maud O'Connor · Book 3

What Happened That Night

by Nicci French

Published
12 February 2026
Pages
405
ISBN-13
9781398524187
Type
novel

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About this book

What Happened That Night, published 12 February 2026 at 405 pages, centers on a wrongly imprisoned man confronting the friends he suspects let him take the fall decades earlier.

Its place in Maud O'Connor

What Happened That Night is book 3 in the Maud O'Connor series. It follows The Last Days of Kira Mullan. See the full Maud O'Connor reading order.

After closing out Frieda Klein and writing four more standalone thrillers, Nicci French launched a new series in 2024 built around Detective Inspector Maud O'Connor, a more conventionally procedural creation than Frieda Klein: a working police officer chasing missing-persons cases and cold-case murders that keep reopening old wounds among ordinary families and old friend groups. Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? opens the series with a woman's disappearance decades earlier resurfacing through her now-adult…

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