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The Vanishing Place
by Zoe RankinPublished by Berkley on September 16, 2025
SubGenres: Psychological Thriller, Thriller
Format: AudioBook, eArc
Pages: 384
Narrator: Eva Seymour, Gareth Reeves
Length: 10 Hours And 16 Minutes
Source: the publisher via NetGalley
Audience: 18+/Adult
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A shocking murder in the New Zealand bush—and the witness who looks all too familiar—draws a woman back to the very place she swore she’d never return to in this breakneck debut thriller.
A child who ran from the forest.A woman who must return to it
Growing up with her younger siblings in the unforgiving New Zealand bush, Effie believed their parents had cut them off from civilization because they loved Nature. She never suspected that their reasons might be more menacing. After witnessing a terrifying episode of violence, she escaped the wilderness to forge a life for herself halfway across the globe.
Now, when she learns the only witness to a murder is a little girl who looks just like her, Effie is compelled to return to the scene of her troubled childhood, where the secrets of her upbringing and the terrors of her past come rushing back to the surface. In order to find out once and for all what became of her family—and possibly help this mysterious girl who could be her younger self—Effie must face her greatest fears once more.