Have You Seen Me?
A Novel of Suspense
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4.0 • 515 Ratings
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Publisher Description
From New York Times bestselling author Kate White comes a gripping novel about one woman’s dangerous quest to recover lost memories someone would rather she never find.
The key to her missing memories could bring relief—or unlock her worst nightmares.
On a cold, rainy morning, finance journalist Ally Linden arrives soaked
to the bone at her Manhattan office, only to find that she’s forgotten her
keycard. When her boss shows, he’s shocked to see her—because, he explains, she
hasn’t worked there in five years.
Ally knows her name, but is having trouble coming up with much beyond
that, though after a trip to the psychiatric ER, she begins to piece together
important facts: she lives on the Upper West Side; she’s now a freelance
journalist; she’s married to a terrific man named Hugh. More memories
materialize and yet she still can’t recall anything about the previous two
days. Diagnosed as having experienced a dissociative state, she starts to
wonder if it may have been triggered by something she saw. Could she have witnessed an accident—or
worse—had something happened to her?
Desperate
for answers, Ally tries to track where she spent the missing days, but every detail
she unearths points to an explanation that’s increasingly ominous, and it’s
clear someone wants to prevent her from learning where those forty-eight hours went.
In order to uncover
the truth, Ally must dig deep into the secrets of her past—and outsmart the
person who seems determined to silence her.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Ally Linden, the narrator of this well-honed thriller from bestseller White (the Bailey Weggins series), arrives one morning at her Manhattan office, wet and bedraggled, with a throbbing headache. Her boss approaches her and asks, "What are you doing here?... You haven't worked here in years." A stunned Ally realizes she has no idea where she's been or where she lives, and that there's "a thick, dark curtain between this moment and everything that came before it." She's diagnosed as being in a dissociative state, caused by a traumatic incident. The questions just keep on coming: what triggered the memory loss, is it connected to a troubling experience in her childhood, who can she really trust to tell her the truth, and why were a handful of blood-soaked tissues stuffed into the pocket of her raincoat? White skillfully maintains the pace until the rushed ending. Even the most jaded reader will be satisfied.
Customer Reviews
Oh My!
This one had me from the get-go. I’ve experienced Temporary Global Amnesia myself and immediately was hit with sympathetic anxiety as I read — and that anxiety lasted through every page as I continued reading until the wee morning hours. A few areas were handled a bit awkwardly, I thought, most particularly the best friend who was kind of in the story but not enough to actually matter. But overall, I was enthralled.
Great mystery
Really well written & kept me interested the whole read
Have you seen me?
Nice plot idea but too simplistically written. Way too much dialogue, all the characters sounded the same and the culprit was fairly obvious and rather unbelievable.