Alice Ogilvie

Alice is a junior at Castle Cove High School and one of the narrators of the novel. Alice is a wealthy, popular girl with parents who emotionally abuse her and leave her with her nanny, Brenda, all through the year. During the summer before junior year, Alice’s boyfriend, Steve, breaks up with her because she is too bossy. In an attempt to make him miss her, she takes off to Egypt with her emotionally distant mother, who ignores her the whole time. Alice finds a collection of Agatha Christie books in the lounge and becomes obsessed with the author. When she returns home, she discovers that her best friend, Brooke, has begun to date Steve. Infuriated, Alice decides to fake her own disappearance, just like Agatha Christie once did. Alice breaks a vase and crashes her car. As luck would have it, Raf finds her on...