Lost Girls

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 Sjoberg 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 well-heeled 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.

Author Biography

Charlotte Philby is a critically acclaimed author, journalist and screenwriter. She started her career as a newspaper reporter, editor and columnist at the Independent, where she was shortlisted for the Cudlipp Prize for investigative reporting, and worked as a contributing editor and features writer at Marie Claire. Charlotte has written for publications including the FT, ELLE and Inside Time, and is currently adapting one of her novels for film with the support of the BFI. Lost Girls is her seventh novel and the second book in the Farrow & Chang series. She was born in London and lives with her family in Bristol.