Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, Helen Grants first teen novel The Vanishing of Katharina Linden follows a misfit teenager as she attempts to unravel the mystery of several strange disappearances in the small town of Bad Mnstereifel. The Vanishing of Katharina Linden bridges the world of the traditional Grimm fairytale with the darker world of Angela Carters adult fairytales.On the day Katharina Linden disappears, Pia is the last person to see her. Terror is spreading through the town. How could a tenyearold girl vanish in a place where everybody knows everybody else?Pia is determined to find out what happened to Katharina.But then the next girl disappears. . .For something so chilling, it is terrific entertainment Sunday TimesGrants splendid debut...is a feast of treats and creeps. Wonderful GuardianA strange, haunting modern fairy tale John Connolly, author of The Book of Lost ThingsThe setting of the small German town of Bad Mnstereifel, in Helen Grants debut novel The Vanishing of Katharina Linden, is based on her own experience of emigrating there from England as a child. Her other darkly thrilling young adult novels, The Glass Demon and Wish Me Dead, are also available from Penguin.

Binding: Paperback;352 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: YFCF; Weight: 370 g; Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 22

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