the Girl From Praia Nova: a Thriller About Missing in Algarve

A child vanishes. A door still locked. A father with too much to hide.On a warm July night in southern Portugal, three-year-old Clara disappears from her hotel room while her parents dine just one floor below. The door is bolted from the inside. The window untouched. The corridor - empty.By morning, the police have a theory. By the weekend, a press release. By the following month, the file is closed.Julian Vale was supposed to be retired. Twelve years out of the field, the former intelligence officer takes the train south as a favour to an old friend. Just take a look. Tell us what we're missing.What Vale finds isn't a missing child.It's a pattern.Another girl. Same resort. Twelve years earlier. Same corridor, same hour, same silence after.As Vale chases the truth from Algarve cliffs to Lisbon back rooms - through forged keycards, vanishing witnesses, and a network of men who specialise in making things disappear - he uncovers something colder than any threat: The system isn't broken. It's working exactly as designed.And the deeper he digs, the quieter things get.A gripping cold case thriller of buried secrets, institutional silence, and the children who slip through the cracks, The Girl from Praia Nova is perfect for readers of Tana French, Robert Harris, and Jane Harper.