The Missing Half
A Novel
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Publisher Description
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.
“Sharp, slick, and chilling, with a whiplash ending you’ll never see coming.”—Jeneva Rose, author of Home Is Where the Bodies Are
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 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 Nic’s life and offers her 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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Crime Junkie podcaster Flowers teams up with Kiester (The Truth About Ben and June) for a preposterous thriller about two women who try to track down their sisters' killer. Nic Monroe, 24, has been a mess ever since her older sister, Kasey, disappeared seven years ago. Kasey's car was found abandoned 150 miles from her hometown of Mishawaka, Ind., with the driver's door open and her purse on the front seat. The incident occurred two weeks after another young woman, Jules Connor, vanished under eerily similar circumstances. Though the bodies have never been found, police believe that both women were murdered by the same unidentified serial killer. In the present day, Nic's low-paying job and DWI conviction have kept her living at home with her father, who's still overwhelmed with grief. Then Jules's sister, Jenna, comes knocking. She suggests the two join forces, and they eventually unearth new information about their sisters' disappearances that stretches credibility to the breaking point. There's a certain soapy thrill in following the plot's melodramatic twists and turns, but they culminate in an absurd finale. This is a disappointment.
