Tag: Child Abduction

Louise Phillips’s upcoming novel Nina (releasing November 18, 2025) is an emotional, tightly woven crime story about trauma, motherhood, and the resilience of a woman who refuses to be silenced or dismissed. Elizabeth Harte has already lived through the worst thing a parent can imagine: the disappearance of her daughter Nina twenty-five years ago. On the eve of her sixty-first birthday, she decides she’s done being treated like a fragile relic by her daughter and son-in-law. Haunted by grief and determined to find answers, Elizabeth leaves home and sets out to track down Nina—and, perhaps, reclaim herself in the process.

Her journey intertwines with the story of Nick, a disgraced detective revisiting cold cases once investigated by his father, whose failure to solve Nina’s disappearance drove him to suicide. As new murders surface and old wounds resurface, their paths converge in a way that forces both to confront the past.