The Absent Daughter

By Belinda Bennett

One woman is battling cancer. Another is missing. The timing is unbelievably cruel.

You wouldn’t want to be in Linda Greaves’ shoes. A chemotherapy patient, she is forced to become an amateur sleuth when her twenty-something daughter, Kat, disappears while on a dream trip to Brisbane.

Just when she thinks life can’t throw her any more curve balls, Linda is thrust into a race against the clock. Can she unravel a complex web of lies before her next chemo infusion in twelve days’ time?

Through hair loss and insomnia, she manages to retain a sense of humour but, as the next round of cancer treatment edges closer, buried secrets cast a dark shadow over her hopes of being cured.

This is not a depressing read. It is a story about a breast cancer sufferer who can poke fun at herself, use the ‘cancer card’ to get her own way and even develop an unlikely sense of admiration for her ex-husband’s second wife (the one who replaced her).

Is Kat really in Australia? Or is she dead?

The truth will shock you.

A short crime fiction story with plenty of lighter moments.

Penned by an author currently undergoing TCHP chemotherapy for inflammatory breast cancer and living in isolation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Belinda Bennett
• Release date: Aug 4, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005577025

Belinda Bennett

Belinda Bennett started writing fiction at primary school. Always passionate about creative writing, her talents were diverted to journalism in her late teens after both her parents died.She was diagnosed with HER2+ inflammatory breast cancer on January 23, 2020. Currently undergoing chemotherapy and targeted therapies, she is hoping to undergo surgery later this year.A fierce supporter of the underdog, Belinda supports causes that help the homeless and those whose lives have been blighted by addiction.Belinda is a former journalist, newspaper editor and freelance copywriter. She lives by the sea on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England.

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