‘Missing You’
is a stand alone Novel by Harlan Coben which first came out almost eight years
back. The protagonist, Kat Donovan is a forty something NYPD detective who has
a past. She had to call off her engagement with Jeff, the love of her life almost
eighteen years back. Now, she stumbles across his profile in an online dating
site only to find out that he is no longer interested in her.
In a parallel
track, in the quest to find out the truth behind her father’s homicide, she gets
to know that someone very close to her might have had a role to play in his
death. As she is battling her own demons, she gets a call from a troubled
teenager asking for help. His mother has suddenly disappeared with a man whom he
thinks is a scamster. How Kat finds out the mystery behind all these seemingly
disconnected events and how it impacts her otherwise troubled life is all this
book is about.
Like Coben’s other
stand alone works, Missing You is also an absolute page turner. There are
twists happening at regular intervals and the moment you think that you have
figured it out all, the master story teller pulls the rug from under your feet.
The characters are real and relatable and I liked the gentle references to
Windsor Lockwood somewhere in the narrative. Kat Donovan is a likeable
character and her ambitions and apprehensions feels genuine. The track involving
the scamsters was also decently done.
On the whole,
Missing You is an intriguing thriller.
-nikhimenon
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