I could not put this book down. It’s filled with quite a few unexpected twists and is beautifully written. Overall an excellent read.

I very much wanted to read this book. I have to regretfully say I dnf it. The writing style is great, the subject of the story is great and inventive. My only problem was connecting with the main character. I will recommend it to others but it is just not for me.

Oh wow, what a book! I read this one in less than 24 hours & that never happens.
This story follows Foster, a successful artist who recently discovered the body of his dad was just found. This opens up the question to us readers if the death was intentional or not.
I loved this story about a father and son. Being a first time mom, it really tugged at my heart strings while also being a gripping tale.
Thank you so much Netgalley for my ARC copy! I highly recommend this book and look forward to reading more from Wignall!

Rating: Very Good

Genre: Mystery Thriller

This is a story about a famous artist, Foster Treherne. One day Foster is informed that a body has been discovered in a glacier in Switzerland and that body is believed to be his father who has been missing for thirty years. Despite never knowing his father, Foster decides to dig for the truth after he suspects that his father’s accident might have been more than that. Fortunately, the father has left a diary and a picture that shows the group of friends the old man belonged to.

This is the first time I read something written by Kevin Wignall and I have to say that the story was quite enjoyable. I liked how things kept unraveling at a steady pace. As I progressed in the book I felt the mystery kept getting more interesting. The book is around 232 pages yet it has lots of meat to offer without the need to resort to unnecessary fillers. The characters were interesting especially the members of The Piranesi Society that the deceased father belonged to. The suspense to know and understand these characters and their motives added more intensity to the story along with the diary inclusion which was a crucial part of Foster’s discovery of the mystery.

Many thanks to the publishers and Netgalley for providing me an advanced reading copy of this book in exchange for this honest and unbiased review.

A well known painter who’s father disappeared many years ago suddenly finds himself asking questions of his father’s friends when his body is found after an avalanche. It was a good story and kept me turning the pages quickly.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the early copy

this story was a really quick read. I was hooked right from the beginning til the end. loved the story and the setting. The characters were really easy to relate too. A really good mystery and one that i recommend

I thought the book was very well done, and the ending exceptional. Good development of subject matter and characters.. Again, I thought the ending showed creativity, and deserved extra points for how completely it tied everything together.I will look forward to his next book.

I have read several books by Kevin Wignall which I really enjoyed. So, I was happy to request this one from Net Galley for an honest review. Foster is a successful artist whose father went missing and his mother committed suicide.
The body of his father is found in a glacier. Now the questions begin. There were signs of a struggle so what happened? Foster goes to his father’s friends to find out some answers.
This book is complex – the mystery of his father, Foster’s life as an artist, and what really happened.

The writing was excellent, and I loved the way the story slowly unfolded with each revelation bringing a little more insight to the mystery and to Foster’s life.
I recommend this book and others written by Mr. Wignall.

A Catalogue Of Events.....
Much to consider in this solid mystery of truth, secrets, family and identity. The discovery of a body in a glacier sparks a catalogue of events, particularly when circumstances surrounding the death appear sinister. Populated with a cast of realistic characters, and a convincing protagonist, the well written plot moves at a good pace. Engaging reading.

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Thanks NetGalley, Amazon Publishing UK, Kevin Wignall for an ARC to review.
When a man's body was discovered in a glacier after thirty years, Foster Treherne his son the famous artist found his lost father.
He begins a journey investigating the 30 years old puzzle and if it wasn't just an accident.
I loved the writing style, the characters and the book's setting.

Thanks to NetGalley, along with Amazon Publishing UK/Thomas & Mercer for this free advance copy in return for an honest review.

A glacier, an avalanche and an artist’s search for truth, all come together in this wonderfully conceived book by Kevin Wignall, an author I never read before and who has done a great job of exploring one mans journey to find the truth about his father and how he died.
After 32 years the body of Charlie Treherne is uncovered as the result of an avalanche on a Swiss glacier. Luckily, the body had been very well preserved over that time since Charlie’s disappearance, and his passport and diary had been wrapped in plastic so the coroner was able to at least identify the body.
Famous modern artist, Foster Treherne receives an unexpected visit from a State Department official informing him of the discovery of his father, Charlie. And this sets up the dramatic plot of one man’s attempt to learn the truth about his father’s death and existence. Charlie’s death had occurred before Foster was born, and to complicate matters his mother committed suicide when he was only one year old.
Basically raised by a nanny, and shipped off to boarding schools, Foster had no photos of his father, and really knew nothing of the man or his life, which was fine with Foster. But despite achieving worldwide artistic fame Foster has always had a hole in his psyche due to tragic circumstances surrounding the death of his parents, as well as his grandparents rather hands off and uncaring interest in his upbringing.
But, as so often happens, one little bit of information leads to another, and eventually Foster is convinced that his father’s death was not a mere accidental hiking death, but rather a murder. The discovery of a group photo now propels Foster on a journey of discovery and enlightenment. Who really were his mother and father, how did his father really die, and if it was not an innocent hiking accident who is to blame?
That Wignall is able to cover all of this in a short 232 page novel tells us about his ability as a writer. It is an action mystery, that really has little physical action. It is a detective story without a detective, and it is one man’s surprising desire to learn about his father. Foster is able to discover the identity of the people in the photo, but their memories of the day his father died are either incomplete or give the indications of a conspiracy. But was there a killer or was it truly an accident, and his desire to learn the truth also uncovers some facts about his father he never had known and which he might have been happy not to know.
This is a short, fast read. Yet it is a book that moves action around at a reasonable pace and teaches us that our past is not always what we think it is, and that our parents are not always who we believe they were. Fascinating, and a very good read with no violence, sex or any graphic sequences.

This review was previously published at www.mysteryandsuspense.com

Those Who Disappeared by Kevin Wignall – This was an excellent read for me, as have been all of the books that I have read by the author

I read this within a day, and once I started it - I just could not wait to continue and see where the storyline was headed

The main character Foster Treherne is a successful and wealthy artist, who finds out at the beginning of the book that the body of the father who he never knew was just found

He has had a great deal of success in his life, however, is also quite alone. This finding opens up a search into the life and circumstances of the death, was this natural or intentional?

I will read more of Kevin Wignall’s books, and they are well written, interesting, and very enjoyable

4.5 Stars

Thank You to NetGalley, Amazon Publishing UK, and Author Kevin Wignall for my advanced copy to read and review

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Some thirty years after he has gone missing, an avalanche uncovers the body of Charlie Treherne. For his son Foster, a now famous artist, it a chance to say goodbye to a man he never knew, a man who disappeared before he was born. When the autopsy reveals there may have been foul play, Foster starts to question his fathers associates and finds himself quickly shut out. As he goes from place to place doggedly pursuing his fathers friends, the more they close ranks and don’t want to tell him the truth. It is sounding to Foster that his father isn’t the saintly person he imagined him to be and this makes him more earnest than ever to uncover the truth.
It’s a great read from a great storyteller.
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The premise of the book was interesting, but the overall story was lacking. I had a hard time getting into it. There were a lot of parts that could have shortened down a lot, and there was one character that really didn't add much to the story at all. She was there simply for the sake of being there. It was also fairly predictable.

This is a nice mystery. Foster, a famous artist finds out that the body of his father was discovered, after 30 years, in Switzerland. He was expecting that his body will surface one day, but he understands it was not an accident. Foster will not stop until he is finding out who did it. It was an easy read.
Thank you Netgalley for this nice book.

What a freaking page turner. Book had me guessing from page to page and I never wanted to put it down. Literally did not see the end coming. At all. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

This mystery has a great plot, and, as usual, the storytelling is very smooth. The characters are fantastic, and all in all this is a very entertaining and intriguing book.

Kevin Witgnall just keeps getting better at writing well-plotted, engrossing mysteries with engaging characters with complex inner lives who get around to interesting places. The protagonist of this one is Foster, a successful painter whose father disappeared while hiking in a Swiss glacier before he was born. When his body is d disinterested from the ice decades later, a journal found in the backpack that was also buried with him leads Foster on a quest to learn more about a man he never knew, and not all of it is welcome news. Setting out to meet the friends he mentioned in the journal, members in their post graduate years of an in-group that called itself the Piranesi Society, the circumstances of disappearance and the reactions of the friends Foster contacts suggest murder. All the suspects are well-developed minor characters, and the developing love story with an embassy staffer assigned to help Foster repatriate his father's body is a nice coda to his journey of discovery.

A new twist in the thriller genre. Imagine living with a story of how your father dies to find out that everyone else on the mountain lied about the real truth. A truly amazing story of a child not giving up until the truth is revealed

4/5 stars

Foster Treherne is rich and an artist, initially part of a group called ‘The New Painters’ but he alone has had great success. There is jealousy that he is the one who has made a name for himself as he gets a series of unpleasant anonymous notes making various accusations. Foster never knew his parents as his father Charlie disappears near a glacier in Switzerland before he is born and his mother commits suicide when he’s a baby. He’s raised very much at arms length by his maternal grandparents. A preserved body is found in a glacier revealed by boulders from an avalanche which proves to be Charlie. Following an oddity from the post mortem, Foster is determined to learn what he can about how and why Charlie died. It’s a fascinating truth seeking journey into his father’s university life and membership of a tight knit group known as The Pirensi Group with Indiana Jones aspirations. It is also a journey of self discovery.

I’ve read several books by Kevin Wignall and enjoyed them all. This one is especially clever as it’s a very understated novel about identity, in seeking to learn about his father and give him an identity he discovers more about himself. It’s also about abandonment, loneliness and a sense of belonging which understandably Foster has always felt. Where does Foster belong? Maybe the search for his father’s identity will give him roots somewhere and settle an itch he didn’t realise he had. This part of the novel really pulls at your heartstrings as no one really cares for him or shows him love as he grows up and yet despite this he becomes a fine, likeable man with a strong moral code. As he digs into his father’s background and tracks down members of the Pirensi group there’s a definite air of tension and rank closing as they wish to conceal and bury the past for ‘Those who disappeared ‘ which is so intriguing. The storytelling takes you in unexpected directions and into some wonderful settings. There are moments of tension and menace especially from the note sender and a good atmosphere builds as the mystery of Charlie deepens. He does get to the truth on both counts which gives him some closure and the ability to move on with his life and find happiness to accompany his success.

Overall, a good novel with multiple strands which keeps you interested throughout.

With thanks to NetGalley and Amazon Publishing UK for the arc for an honest review