All the Missing Girls: A Novel

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“This thriller’s all of your fave page-turners (think: Luckiest Girl Alive, The Girl on the Train, Gone Girl) rolled into one.” —TheSkimm

“Both [Gillian] Flynn’s and Miranda’s main characters also reclaim the right of female characters to be more than victim or femme fataleAll the Missing Girls is set to become one of the best books of 2016.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

“Extremely interesting…a novel that will probably be called Hitchcockian.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Are you paying attention? You’ll need to be; this thriller will test your brain with its reverse chronological structure, and it’s a page-turner to boot.” —Elle

Like the spellbinding psychological suspense in The Girl on the Train and Luckiest Girl Alive, Megan Miranda’s novel is a nail-biting, breathtaking story about the disappearances of two young women—a decade apart—told in reverse.


It’s been ten years since Nicolette Farrell left her rural hometown after her best friend, Corinne, disappeared from Cooley Ridge without a trace. Back again to tie up loose ends and care for her ailing father, Nic is soon plunged into a shocking drama that reawakens Corinne’s case and breaks open old wounds long since stitched.

The decade-old investigation focused on Nic, her brother Daniel, boyfriend Tyler, and Corinne’s boyfriend Jackson. Since then, only Nic has left Cooley Ridge. Daniel and his wife, Laura, are expecting a baby; Jackson works at the town bar; and Tyler is dating Annaleise Carter, Nic’s younger neighbor and the group’s alibi the night Corinne disappeared. Then, within days of Nic’s return, Annaleise goes missing.

Told backwards—Day 15 to Day 1—from the time Annaleise goes missing, Nic works to unravel the truth about her younger neighbor’s disappearance, revealing shocking truths about her friends, her family, and what really happened to Corinne that night ten years ago.

Like nothing you’ve ever read before, All the Missing Girls delivers in all the right ways. With twists and turns that lead down dark alleys and dead ends, you may think you’re walking a familiar path, but then Megan Miranda turns it all upside down and inside out and leaves us wondering just how far we would be willing to go to protect those we love.

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Published Jan 31, 2017

400 pages

Average rating: 6.73

409 RATINGS

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Readers say *All the Missing Girls* by Megan Miranda offers a gripping thriller with a reverse chronological narrative that adds suspense but can also...

The.readrose
Jan 28, 2026
8/10 stars
I enjoyed the journey, but didn’t find the end satisfying.
TwistedWreck
Mar 18, 2024
7/10 stars
This book will hold your interest from the moment you open it, and then as soon as you finish it you’ll realize that the only reason the story is told from end to beginning is because in chronological order there is no mystery or reason to sympathize with any of the characters.
cinamariexoxo
Feb 19, 2026
6/10 stars
wish it wasn’t end to beginning
Mary Pat Holt
Feb 05, 2026
4/10 stars
I know I am going against the norm on this one. I just didn't like it. I found telling the story in reverse order to be awful! It was confusing and I had to think at the beginning of each chapter "ok, I am going to read something that happened BEFORE what I just read in the last chapter." Too much work to keep focused, it was actually a distraction. I didn't like the characters and found that the storyline just moved too slow. This was a letdown for me. :/
anne ducastel
Jan 08, 2026
2/10 stars
DNF, writing too atrocious

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