Missing, Presumed
Summary:
Mid-December, and Cambridgeshire is blanketed with snow. Detective Sergeant Manon Bradshaw tries to sleep after yet another soul-destroying Internet date – the low murmuring of her police radio her only solace.
Over the airwaves come reports of a missing woman – door ajar, keys and phone left behind, a spatter of blood on the kitchen floor. Manon knows the first 72 hours are critical: you find her, or you look for a body. And as soon as she sees a picture of Edith Hind, a Cambridge postgraduate from a well-connected family, she knows this case will be big.
Is Edith alive or dead? Was her ‘complex love life’ at the heart of her disappearance, as a senior officer tells the increasingly hungry press? And when a body is found, is it the end or only the beginning?
Group Comments:
I really liked it. I liked the police procedural aspect. The author writes such real people.
I got invested in these characters. Excellent. Tremendous talent.
Mixed feelings. I did listen to the audio book and the reader was amazing!
I did not like Manon’s neediness, but I did like the realism.
I didn’t like Manon, but I liked it overall.
Manon was annoying but relatable.
I found Manon annoying.
Mixed. Well written. I liked the narrator changes. [Manon’s love interest] was wasted.
I did not like that all the gay characters experienced tragedy.
Very slow. Very little mystery.
I did NOT like Miriam. I did not feel her perspective added anything to the story.
Not my cup of tea.
The mystery was not great.
I did not like it. No mystery—it took a back seat to everyone’s personal issues. Felt like Manon was very stereotypical.
Police are too stereotypical. It dragged.
Do not like the “dysfunctional relationship” trope of main detective. Boring.
Very realistic as a police procedural.
Good story telling.
A real ensemble cast.
I liked the multiple perspectives
Didn’t like ANY of the characters! The writing was good—amusing, descriptive, but also somewhat of a slog to get through.
