Just Another Missing Person – Book Review

From the author of the Reese’s Book Club Pick and the New York Times bestseller Wrong Place Wrong Time comes a new heart-stopping thriller in which a missing-person case unravels deeper, darker secrets that lead a detective to an impossible moral choice.

22-year-old Olivia has been missing for one day…and counting. She was last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley. And not coming back out again.

Julia, the detective heading up the search for Olivia, thinks she knows what to expect. A desperate family, a ticking clock, and long hours away from her husband and daughter. But she has no idea just how close to home this case is going to get.

Because the criminal at the heart of the disappearance has something she never expected. His weapon isn’t a gun, or a knife: it’s a secret. Her worst one. And her family’s safety depends on one thing: Julia must NOT find out what happened to Olivia – and must frame somebody else for her murder.

If you find her, you will lose everything. What would you do?

This clever and endlessly surprising thriller is laced with a smart look at family and motherhood, and cements Gillian McAllister as a major talent in the world of suspense and a master of creating ethical dilemmas that show just how murky the distinction between right and wrong can be.

Nearly a year ago, Julia’s daughter Genevieve accidentally injured a boy named Zac who then later on died from sepsis. Julia kept the incident hidden particularly from her husband. Now in the present day, a woman named Olivia mysteriously disappeared in the alley. As Julia is investigating the case, a man blackmails her–saying that he knows what happened with Zac and if she didn’t plant the incriminating evidence against a man named Matthew, then the whole world will know about what happened to Zac. Julia would do anything to protect her daughter and that was what she did although, as she investigates, there is something hiding behind the case…

This was a fast paced thriller. The story is told in the POVs of Julia, Lewis and Emma who each tell their own version of the story. The book is well written, making the reader feel like they are watching an action packed thriller on TV. The twists throughout the book and turns were all unexpected, which made the book an interesting to read. Though this book wasn’t great as Wrong Place Wrong Time, the whole story line kept the reader hooked into the story. Worth 4 stars in my opinion.