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Missing You
599 pages
A breathless plunge into the dark side of digital connection, where a ghost from the past unlocks a terrifying present.
What it feels like
Reading this thriller feels like stepping onto a runaway train of paranoia and buried secrets. The narrative grips you immediately with a relatable premise—swiping through a dating app—before yanking the rug out to reveal a sprawling, sinister conspiracy. The mood is relentlessly tense and shadowed by grief, anchored by a tough, pragmatic detective whose emotional armor is slowly stripped away. The prose is punchy and dialogue-heavy, engineered for maximum velocity with signature cliffhanger chapters that make it nearly impossible to put down. It is a propulsive, twist-laden experience perfect for readers who crave high-stakes suspense, where the ghosts of the past collide violently with the hidden dangers of the modern digital age.
- Mood
- tense
- paranoid
- shadowy
- relentless
- Tone
- urgent
- pragmatic
- suspenseful
- gritty
- Pace
- propulsive
- Themes
- digital deception · buried family secrets · unresolved grief · illusion versus reality · the weight of the past
- The writing
- Punchy, dialogue-driven, and relentlessly paced, designed to keep the pages turning with signature cliffhanger chapter endings.
- The arc
- Moves from a spark of nostalgic hope into a spiraling descent of paranoia and betrayal, culminating in a hard-won, breathless resolution.
- Who it's for
- Fans of twisty, high-stakes thrillers who love a tough but emotionally vulnerable protagonist untangling a web of personal and criminal secrets.
Content notes
- murder
- torture
- kidnapping
- grief
- online predation
About the book
It's a profile, like all the others on the online dating site. But as NYPD Detective Kat Donovan focuses on the accompanying picture, she feels her whole world explode, as emotions she's ignored for decades come crashing down on her. Staring back at her is her ex-fiancé Jeff, the man who shattered her heart -- and who she hasn't seen in 18 years. Kat feels a spark, wondering if this might be the moment when past tragedies recede and a new world opens up to her. But when she reaches out to the man in the profile, her reawakened hope quickly darkens into suspicion and then terror as an unspeakable conspiracy comes to light, in which monsters prey upon the most vulnerable. As the body count mounts and Kat's hope for a second chance with Jeff grows more and more elusive, she is consumed by an investigation that challenges her feelings about everyone she ever loved -- her former fiancé, her mother, and even her father, whose cruel murder so long ago has never been fully explained. With lives on the line, including her own, Kat must venture deeper into the darkness than she ever has before, and discover if she has the strength to survive what she finds there.
Description from Open Library.
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