Lost Girls
The gripping detective crime novel from The TImes Thriller of the Year author
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Lost Girls
Narrated by:
Kirsten Foster, Victoria Fox
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Narrated by:
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Kirsten Foster
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Victoria Fox
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Charlotte Philby
When the daughter of the Swedish Ambassador disappears from her prestigious London school in broad daylight, the authorities are on high alert. There are no witnesses and no ransom demand: thirteen-year-old Freya Sjöberg has vanished into thin air.
With the Metropolitan Police out of their depth, specialist agent DS Madeleine Farrow is called in to handle the case. As a former pupil at Wimpole Girls, she knows the school's affluent corridors only too well. But even she can't anticipate the dark secrets held within its walls.
With the clock ticking since Freya's disappearance, Madeleine must return to a place that holds painful memories to find a girl who has left no trace. For help, she calls on dogged - and occasionally maverick - young private investigator Ramona Chang. Together the unlikely pair find themselves plunged into a world of extreme wealth and dangerous secrets.
The deeper they dig, the more they uncover - exposing a tangled web of conspiracy and lies that could change everything they thought they knew about the case, and each other.
PRAISE FOR THE FARROW & CHANG SERIES:
'Deftly riffing on actual news events, Lost Girls is another assured outing for Charlotte Philby's female odd couple ... [with] its depiction of a London ever more divided between haves and have-nots' Sunday Times
'Brilliant! Effortlessly cool and clever. Cracking plot too' Jane Casey, author of The Killing Kind
'A dazzling crime story' Woman's Own
'Slick, stylish, glimmering with menace and introducing two unforgettable new leads' Lucy Foley, author of The Guest List©2026 Charlotte Philby
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Critic reviews
Deftly riffing on actual news events, Lost Girls is another assured outing for Charlotte Philby's female odd couple ... what lingers longest in the memory is its depiction of a London ever more divided between haves and have-nots.
Praise for DIRTY MONEY--
A lively and topical addition to the library of metropolitan crime novels
A rich, detailed picture of life in contemporary London . . . Dirty Money is one of those rare books that has it all - fantastic, realistic characters, a good plot and absolutely beautiful writing
Features a winning duo in DS Madeleine Farrow and Ramona Chang
A dazzling crime story
Slick, sharp, topical and very cool! (Natasha Poliszczuk)
This one brings our two investigators onto a new trail, that of a young girl, daughter of the Swedish ambassador, who disappears from her school.
Like the first book, this one starts slowly and builds a nice forest of information, red herrings and questions (the title being plural is one of them) for the reader to get lost into. And again, it seems to find inspiration in some rather sad stories that made the news headlines some years ago.
Madeleine and Ramona are great characters. They are so different and they are so complementary at the same time. They understand each other but they keep secrets from each other too. In fact, in this book, everyone keeps secrets from everyone, and it makes it quite an interesting read to keep track of all the said and unsaid information.
I also enjoy Charlotte Philby's writing, with a mix of precision of facts, rhythm, depth of characters and pauses that give her characters time to think, to show their feelings and challenges to the reader, and to keep us interested.
This was a page turner and a very good read again from Charlotte Philby. I can definitely see Madeleine and Ramona returning for another book.
The audio book is well read and the voices are pleasant. I only thought the Swedish accent was not fully consistent. But it was a very pleasant listen.
The return of Madeleine and Ramona, a good plot
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Excellent storyline
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