Missing White Woman
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3.9 • 41 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
A "propulsive page-turner" (Alyssa Cole) and "thriller not to be missed" (Michael Connelly) from the award-winning author of Like a Sister, in which a woman thinks she’s waking up to a romantic vacation—only to find a body in her rental home and her boyfriend gone.
The truth is never skin deep.
It was supposed to be a romantic getaway weekend in New York City. Breanna’s new boyfriend, Ty, took care of everything—the train tickets, the dinner reservations, the rented four-story luxury rowhouse in Jersey City with a beautiful view of the Manhattan skyline. But when Bree comes downstairs their final morning, she’s shocked. There’s a stranger laying dead in the foyer, and Ty is nowhere to be found.
A Black woman alone in a new city, Bree is stranded and out of her depth—especially when it becomes clear the dead woman is none other than Janelle Beckett, the missing woman the entire Internet has become obsessed with. There’s only one person Bree can turn to: her ex-best friend, a lawyer with whom she shares a very complicated past. As the police and a social media mob close in, all looking for #JusticeForJanelle, Bree realizes that the only way she can help Ty—or herself—is to figure out what really happened that last night.
But when people only see what they want to see, can she uncover the truth hiding in plain sight?
"Fantastic. Only Garrett could craft a tale so adroitly attuned to our everyday fears." —S. A. Cosby, New York Times bestselling author of All the Sinners Bleed
"A propulsive murder mystery with relatable characters and heart-stopping twists."―Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of Local Woman Missing and Just the Nicest Couple
"Bree is unforgettable . . . you are in for such a ride." —Rachel Hawkins, New York Times bestselling author of The Villa
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A woman finds herself at the center of a trending true-crime tale in this twisty thriller. Breeana Wright has been hooked by the internet’s latest mystery obsession: a story about a missing woman from the very same town where she and her boyfriend, Ty, happen to be staying on their first vacation as a couple. So she’s understandably shaken when she wakes up the next day to discover that Ty is gone—and the body of the missing woman is at the bottom of the stairs. We were fully on board with this taut whodunit from the moment we met the quick-witted and sharp-tongued Bree. Author Kellye Garrett seamlessly blends biting social commentary into the tale, touching on topics like social media culture and law enforcement’s troubled relationship with people of color. Before you go down your next true-crime rabbit hole, be sure to read Missing White Woman.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the entertaining latest from Crime Writers of Color cofounder Garrett (Like a Sister), 30-something Breanna Wright believes she's finally found the perfect boyfriend in successful financial adviser Tyler Franklin. When he suggests the couple spend a few days away from Baltimore in an upmarket Airbnb in Jersey City, N.J., where his company has offices, Breanna jumps at the chance. After they arrive, however, she wakes one morning to find Tyler gone and the dead body of a slim blonde woman lying in the entryway, her face so bruised and bloodied she's unrecognizable. The corpse fits the description of Janelle Beckett, a professional dog walker in the neighborhood, and the police name the missing Tyler a person of interest in her murder. Speculation about the case runs rampant on social media, much of it fueled by a TikTok creator intent on boosting her engagement. Breanna, who had a dust-up with police as a college student, has no faith in the local cops and decides to investigate on her own, hoping to clear Tyler. Garrett remains remarkably sharp on matters of race, recasting such crime fiction tropes as police interrogations and tabloid frenzy through the eyes of a Black woman whose interactions with such forces are more fraught than her white counterparts'. Despite a few plot holes, this is a winner. Garrett's fans will be thrilled.
