The Missing: The unputdownable crime thriller from bestselling author

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The rams went in with the ewes in late October and now it’s time to find out how successful those romantic liaisons were. It's a smart, intricately plotted, heart-wrenching thriller about dysfunctional families and child abduction. Some time later a third letter arrived, also purported to be from Jane, stating that the man had realised a disguised detective was present and that he decided to keep the children because the Beaumonts had betrayed his trust. She tries to live a quiet life, and has even changed her name to avoid being linked with Charlie's disappearance.

Cindy's dramatic comeback to EastEnders became a hot topic on Loose Women, as Jane took her seat on the panel, with Charlene likening to Jane's own unexpected come back to the long-running programme. A ground-penetrating radar found "one small anomaly, which can indicate movement or objects within the soil", but the dig found no additional evidence and investigations into the site were closed.

James's pitch perfect, brilliantly crafted prose will have you enchanted and in awe of her mastery until the very last page. It is so different at school for children these days compard with people my age, with all this Facebook/mobile phone (etc) stuff. The case received worldwide attention and is credited with causing a change in Australian lifestyles, since parents began to believe that their children could no longer be presumed to be safe when unsupervised in public. Claire said the family even sought the help of psychic Uri Geller, visiting his house in the hope he might shed light on the disappearance.

Allan Maxwell McIntyre (died 2017 [61])—who had himself been investigated by police and cleared of involvement in the Beaumont case—gave a secondhand account to the Adelaide Advertiser that a man he had known in 1966, who by 2015 was being sought in Southeast Asia in connection with child abuse incidents there, had come to his home with the children's bodies in the boot of his car. The bones were partly charred and authorities believed they had been there for two years, as a bushfire had "swept across the site" in 1982. The kidnapping is also viewed by many social commentators as a significant event in the evolution of Australian society, with a large number of people changing the way they supervised their children daily.The Age alleged that evidence gathered by cold case investigators pointed to Percy in a number of unsolved child murders, including the Beaumont case. As taxi driver Kevin Doherty began a 12-year sentence for her manslaughter, Taylor, 19 – who was only 15 months old when his mother disappeared – said: “I want answers from him. The pictures, published against their wishes, caused a huge wave of public sympathy from a community which was still sensitive to their pain.