If You Were Here
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- 8,49 €
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- 8,49 €
Publisher Description
Bestselling author of The Ex,The Wife and The Better Sister
*The Girl She Was, available to pre-order now*
'Highly addictive' KARIN SLAUGHTER 'A major talent' HARLAN COBEN
Your past can change everything...
When McKenna Jordan, a magazine journalist investigating the story of a heroic and unidentified woman, finds the video footage, she thinks she recognizes her as Susan Hauptmann. But Susan disappeared without a trace ten years earlier, having just introduced McKenna to her future husband, Patrick.
In this sublimely plotted mystery about marriage, private security and journalistic scandal, McKenna's complex search for her missing friend forces her to unearth secrets that lie deep in all their pasts.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Former U.S. District Attorney and law professor Alafair Burke has created another powerful, engaging protagonist in McKenna Wright. Having left her law career under a cloud, McKenna is working as a tabloid journalist. In the course of reporting an article, she stumbles across evidence that a close friend who disappeared a decade earlier may be alive. We loved this gripping tale, in which the threads of McKenna’s past wrap around every aspect of her present.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Burke's outstanding stand-alone suspense novel, her second after 2011's Long Gone, stars appealing (if impulsive) McKenna Jordan, a New York City journalist whose stint covering the DA's office ended in a maelstrom of media indignation when she falsely accused a cop of planting a gun. McKenna's investigation into the story of an unidentified woman who singlehandedly pulled a teenager from the subway tracks takes an unexpected turn. Grainy video footage of the incident reveals that the heroic woman uncannily resembles McKenna's old friend Susan Hauptmann, a gregarious West Point grad whose mysterious disappearance 10 years earlier has haunted McKenna. The stakes rise as McKenna moves from chasing the story du jour to chasing a long-buried truth revisiting the character of the woman she thought she knew as well as the controversial case that discredited her. Burke succeeds in making Susan plausible as a woman who is charming and complex enough to warrant McKenna hurling herself into an inquiry that threatens her journalistic credibility, her relationship with her husband, and possibly her life. Burke's accuracy in legal and judicial technicalities is impressive although most readers will find simpler pleasures in her sharp writing, well-constructed plot, and dimensional characters.
