Missing White Woman by Kellye Garrett (Hardcover)

Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense - Mystery & Detective - Crime

RELEASE DATE: 4/30/2024 (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER'S WAREHOUSE)

In this twisty thriller and "compulsive page-turner" (Harlan Coben) from the award-winning author of Like a Sister, 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, Ty is nowhere to be found and there’s a stranger dead in the foyer—the missing woman the entire Internet has become obsessed with: Janelle Beckett. Soon, both the police and an army of Internet sleuths are asking questions Bree doesn't know how to answer. Desperate to find Ty and to keep her own secrets buried, Bree realizes there’s only one person she can turn to: her ex-best friend, a lawyer with whom she shares a very complicated past. 

Fierce, smart, and thrilling to the end, Missing White Woman not only explores “Missing White Woman” syndrome and traveling while Black, but deftly inverts the hallmarks of the domestic suspense genre to ask: How well can we truly know the people we love? And what happens to these stories when seen through the eyes of a Black woman?

AUTHOR BIO: 

Kellye Garrett is the author of Like a Sister--an Edgar and Anthony nominee for Best Novel and a Lefty Award winner for Best Mystery--as well as Hollywood Homicide, which won Agatha, Anthony, Lefty, and Independent Publisher "IPPY" awards for Best First Novel and was named one of BookBub's Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time, and Hollywood Ending, which was nominated for both Anthony and Lefty awards. Prior to writing novels, Garrett spent eight years working in Hollywood, including a stint writing for Cold Case. She is a New Jersey native, a cofounder of Crime Writers of Color, and a former board member of Sisters in Crime.

"Fantastic. Only Garrett could craft a tale so adroitly attuned to our everyday fears." —S. A. Cosby

“Taut, suspenseful, and packed with heart, this novel grabbed me tight and wouldn’t let go.” —Meg Gardiner

"Expertly mixes sorrow and grief, humor and identity, with the chaos of social media." —Rachel Howzell Hall

"Bree is unforgettable . . . You are in for such a ride." —Rachel Hawkins