The Missing Half Published by Random House Publishing Group on May 6, 2025 Genres: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Fiction / Thrillers / Crime, Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
Pages: 288
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Two women haunted by their sisters’ unsolved disappearances band together in this captivating mystery from the author of All Good People Here and host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie.
“A propulsive mystery with excellent writing . . . Simply a great read!”—Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl
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.
Well, this book basically said, “You think you know what happened? That’s adorable.”
Seven years ago, Nic’s sister Kasey disappeared. Another woman, Jules, vanished under eerily similar circumstances just weeks earlier. When Jules’s sister Jenna shows up wanting answers, the two women start digging into the cold cases themselves—and naturally, they uncover things that probably should have stayed buried.
I was completely sucked into this one. Nic is messy, complicated, and carrying years of grief, guilt, and unanswered questions. I loved watching her and Jenna piece everything together because every discovery had me changing my theories.
And then we reached the ending.
EXCUSE ME?!
That final stretch completely changed the way I looked at everything that came before it. It’s dark, twisty, uncomfortable, and exactly the kind of ending that makes you sit there for a minute after closing the book thinking, What the hell did I just read?
If you love missing-person mysteries, cold cases, complicated sister relationships, and twists that mess with your head, The Missing Half is absolutely worth picking up.
Reader Verdict: Twisty, addictive, and deliciously unsettling. Ashley Flowers got me with this one.
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