Hardback: 399 pages
Genre: Contemporary Psychological Thriller, Family Mystery,
Publisher: Zaffre, Bonnier Books UK. 2025
Source: Tywyn Public Library
First Sentence: Ten weeks. It is the longest time we've ever been apart.
Review Quote: 'An excellent premise and explosively enjoyable finale' The Guardian
Setting: England
My Opinion: In recent years I have found myself reading many more books in the thriller genre and T.M. Logan is definitely one of my go to authors. T.M Logan has told his readers that he often gets ideas for his books from real life scenarios. So it is no surprise that he had a what if moment whilst collecting his daughter after her first term away at university, which has eventually evolved into 'The Daughter'
A missing person! When Lauren turns up to collect her daughter, Evie from university for the Christmas break she is not there. Lauren and her son Lucas find their world unravelling around them as they battle to come to terms with Evie's disappearance. Determined to track her down, the twists, turns and dramas they encounter during their search for her make for an unpredictable read.
With a naturally flowing writing style and realistic characters I found this captivating. This novel was a great start to my 2026 reading and I recommend to all fans of the genre.
Précis Courtesy of Goodreads:
Lauren can't wait to see her daughter again, to pick her up from university at the end of her first term. But when she arrives at her hall and knocks at room 309, a stranger opens the door.
For a few minutes, Lauren assumes she must have the wrong room, or the wrong floor. Maybe even the wrong building.
But she soon discovers the Evie's not there. She hasn't been there for weeks. So where is she?
Following one family's desperate race against time as one terrifying moment unravels into a living nightmare, The Daughter is the unmissable new heart-in-mouth thriller from T.M. Logan.
Author Profile:
Bestselling author TM Logan was a national newspaper journalist before turning to novel-writing full time. His thrillers have sold more than two million copies in the UK and are published in translation in 22 countries around the world including France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, South Korea, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Greece, Romania and the Netherlands.
He was born in Berkshire on the 19th of December 1975 and grew up in Reading, the youngest of three boys and a fully-fledged bookworm from a very young age. He read history at Westfield College, part of the University of London, and went on to do a postgrad at Cardiff University.
Wanting to write journalism seemed an obvious choice, and after five years as a reporter and then education correspondent on the Nottingham Evening Post he moved to London to work on the Daily Mail. The next move took him back to the East Midlands, where he worked for the University of Nottingham as a press officer, writing fiction in any spare time he could find. In January 2017 his first thriller was published. a few weeks later his current position as a deputy director in charge of the university’s communications team – was scrapped as part of a restructure. That was when he decided to take the plunge into writing full-time.
He lives in Nottinghamshire with his wife and two children, and writes in a cabin in the corner of his garden.
Photographs and Biographical Information courtesy of the following sites:
Goodreads Author Profile. Amazon Author Page Official Author Website