Nicci French, Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?

An exciting new collaboration between Essex Book Festival and Felixstowe Book Festival.

Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? is the 25th novel from International #1 Bestselling Author and legendary crime writing duo. Nicci French is the pseudonym for the writing partnership of journalists Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. Their novels include the bestselling Frieda Klein series, published in thirty-one languages. Discover more about the husband and wife writing team and their creative processes as they discuss their latest thriller.

Nicci and Sean will be in-conversation with Julia Jones.

This event will include an audience Q&A. After the event there will be an opportunity to get your book signed by the author.

Part of A Criminally Good Day
Join us for a fabulous day of criminally good events in Harwich. With author talks and a film-screening at Electric Palace, one of Essex’s leading cultural venues; a family ‘Litter is Criminal’ workshop on Harwich Beach and a Game Changer Workshop with award-winning Signals, there really is something for everyone. Visit the A Criminally Good Day page for more details.

Saturday 29 June, 1.00pm

Venue: Electric Palace, King’s Quay Street, Harwich, CO12 3ER
Tickets: £10 / £8 concessions (Students, Under 27s and Unwaged)
Box Office: essexbookfestival.org.uk or Mercury Theatre 01206 573948

Make a day of it! Buy a ticket to 2 author events at our Criminally Good Day, get the 3rd event free. Discount automatically applied at checkout when tickets for all 3 events are booked:
1.00pm – Nicci French
2.30pm – C.L. Miller
4.00pm – Peter Hain

Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? by Nicci French

Published 29 February 2024

Order a copy of Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? at bookshop.org

She’s loved by all who meet her. But someone wants her gone…

1990

When beautiful and vivacious Charlotte Salter fails to turn up to her husband Alec’s 50th birthday party, her kids are worried, but Alec is not. As the days pass and there’s still no word from Charlie, her daughter, Etty, and her sons, Niall, Paul and Ollie, all struggle to come to terms with her disappearance. How can anyone just vanish without a trace? Left with no answers and in limbo, the Salter children try and go on with their lives, all the while thinking that their mother’s killer is potentially very close to home.

Now

After years away, Etty returns home to the small East Anglian village where she grew up to help move her father into a care home. Now in his eighties, Alec has dementia and often mistakes his daughter for her mother.

Etty is a changed woman from the trouble-free girl she was when Charlie was still around – all the Salter children have spent decades running and hiding from their mother’s disappearance. But when their childhood friends, Greg and Morgen Ackerley, decide to do a podcast about Charlotte’s disappearance, it seems like the town’s buried secrets – and the Salters’ – might finally come to light.

After all this time, will they finally find out what really happened to Charlotte Salter?

About the Authors

Nicci French

Nicci French is the pseudonym for the writing partnership of journalists Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. The couple are married and live in London. There are 25 novels by Nicci French, including the bestselling Frieda Klein series, published in thirty-one languages. They have sold in excess of 15 million copies of their novels worldwide.

Find them on X at @FrenchNicci.

Julia Jones

Julia Jones is the author of The Adventures of Margery Allingham and also co-founded Johns Campaign with Nicci Gerrard. She lives in Essex and sails in Suffolk. Her most recent book is Uncommon Courage: the Yachtsmen Volunteers of World War 2.

You can order copies of books featured in Essex Book Festival 2024 at bookshop.org.