All the Missing Girls (Unabridged)
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3.7 • 379 Ratings
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
***A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***
A New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice”
Entertainment Weekly — Thriller Round-Up
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Hollywood Reporter — Hot Summer Books…16 Must Reads
“This thriller’s all of your fave page-turners (think: Luckiest Girl Alive, The Girl on the Train, Gone Girl) rolled into one.” —TheSkimm
“Both [Gillian] Flynn’s and Miranda’s main characters also reclaim the right of female characters to be more than victim or femme fatale… All the Missing Girls is set to become one of the best books of 2016.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
“Extremely interesting…a novel that will probably be called Hitchcockian.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Are you paying attention? You’ll need to be; this thriller will test your brain with its reverse chronological structure, and it’s a page-turner to boot.” —Elle
Like the spellbinding psychological suspense in The Girl on the Train and Luckiest Girl Alive, Megan Miranda’s novel is a nail-biting, breathtaking story about the disappearances of two young women—a decade apart—told in reverse.
It’s been ten years since Nicolette Farrell left her rural hometown after her best friend, Corinne, disappeared from Cooley Ridge without a trace. Back again to tie up loose ends and care for her ailing father, Nic is soon plunged into a shocking drama that reawakens Corinne’s case and breaks open old wounds long since stitched.
The decade-old investigation focused on Nic, her brother Daniel, boyfriend Tyler, and Corinne’s boyfriend Jackson. Since then, only Nic has left Cooley Ridge. Daniel and his wife, Laura, are expecting a baby; Jackson works at the town bar; and Tyler is dating Annaleise Carter, Nic’s younger neighbor and the group’s alibi the night Corinne disappeared. Then, within days of Nic’s return, Annaleise goes missing.
Told backwards—Day 15 to Day 1—from the time Annaleise goes missing, Nic works to unravel the truth about her younger neighbor’s disappearance, revealing shocking truths about her friends, her family, and what really happened to Corinne that night ten years ago.
Like nothing you’ve ever read before, All the Missing Girls delivers in all the right ways. With twists and turns that lead down dark alleys and dead ends, you may think you’re walking a familiar path, but then Megan Miranda turns it all upside down and inside out and leaves us wondering just how far we would be willing to go to protect those we love.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In her first foray outside the world of young-adult fiction, Megan Miranda gives us a breathless and gripping thriller with an unexpected structure. Ten years after the disappearance of her best friend, Corinne, Nicolette reluctantly returns to her tiny hometown to sell her childhood home. Upon her arrival, another young woman goes missing. Miranda pulls us into her mystery with a clever twist: The story is told in reverse, like Christopher Nolan’s hit movie Memento. We know the fates of both women before Nicolette does, but tantalizing clues pull us deeper and deeper into the suspense—not about what happened to them, but why. Miranda’s twisty novel is dotted with biting dialogue, steamy forbidden romance, and a complex web of small-town gossip, all of which veteran narrator Rebekkah Ross delivers effortlessly. Suspenseful and wildly creative, All the Missing Girls will have you biting your nails—even as it’s blowing your mind.
Customer Reviews
Comme ci, comme ça
This book didn’t wow me but it did not land in the DNF pile either. Important to note, I listed to the audio edition.
Terrible Reader
Really wanted to listen to this but I literally couldn’t get more than 20 minutes in to it with this reader. She is so robotic, to the point where it’s hard to even understand. It would literally be better to have Siri read me this book.
Hard to follow
It has a good story line but the book keeps jumping around in the timeline so I was confused more often than intrigued.