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Two women haunted by their sisters' unsolved disappearances band together in this captivating mystery from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All Good People Here and host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie.
Nicole “Nic” Monroe is in a rut. At twenty-four, she lives alone in a dinky apartment in her hometown of Mishawaka, Indiana, she’s just gotten a DWI, and she works the same dead-end job she’s been working since high school, a job she only has because her boss is a family friend and feels sorry for her. Everyone has felt sorry for her for the last seven years—since the day her older sister, Kasey, vanished without a trace.
On the night Kasey went missing, her car was found over a hundred miles from home. The driver’s door was open and her purse was untouched in the seat next to it. The only real clue in her disappearance was Jules Connor, another young woman from the same area who disappeared in the same way, two weeks earlier. But with so little for the police to go on, both their cases eventually went cold.
Nic wants nothing more than to move on—from her sister’s disappearance and the state it’s left her in. But then one day, Jules’s sister, Jenna Connor, walks into her life and offers Nic something she hasn’t felt in a long time: hope. What follows is a gripping tale of two sisters who will do anything to find their missing halves, even if it means destroying everything they’ve ever known.
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Nic Monroe's life has stagnated since the disappearance of her older sister, Kasey, 7 years ago: she still works the same job she did as a teenager, still lives in her hometown, still drinks too much to unwind. Jenna, the older sister of Jules, who went missing around the same time as Kasey, eventually reaches out to Nic with a proposition: the two of them know their sisters better than anyone, and if they work together, maybe they can finally solve their disappearances.
The premise was compelling, but the writing was rather bland. I appreciate that Nic was flawed and unlikable and there were a few moments where you really feel her grief, but other than those few moments, she and all the other characters felt very one-dimensional. As for the plot...well, I'm all for suspension of disbelief in these types of page-turners, but there were so many times that I was like...no? That did not happen like that? I don't know, maybe I'd appreciate it more if I wasn't an only child and understood the deep, unyielding bond between sisters. A very medium three shelter cats named Bansky out of 5 that might ultimately be closer to a 2.5.