Missing

Missing by Jane Casey. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780091935993.

Jenny Shepherd is twelve years old and missing...Her teacher, Sarah Finch, knows better than most that the chances of finding her alive are diminishing with every day she is gone. As a little girl her older brother had gone out to play one day and never returned. The strain of never knowing what has happened to Charlie had ripped Sarahs family apart. Now in her early twenties, she is back living at home, trapped with a mother who drinks too much and keeps her brothers bedroom as a shrine to his memory. Then, horrifically, it is Sarah who finds Jennys body, beaten and abandoned in the woods near her home. As shes drawn into the police investigation and the heart of a media storm, Sarahs presence arouses suspicion too. But it not just the police who are watching her...