The Missing Half: A Novel
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.
“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.
BUY THE BOOK
These clubs recently read this book...
Community Reviews
Ashley Flowers does it again! I was told by multiple people to read this book and I couldn’t read it fast enough. I think at some point or another I thought almost every character had killed Kasey and Jules. Every new piece of information would line up with someone new.
I definitely didn’t expect for Kasey to be alive and for Nic to be searching for herself this entire time. It truly shows what length sisters will go for each other and to protect one another. The last line “I’m just not sure the right ones survived.” left me to wonder if Nic thought this because of how messed up her and Kasey’s life was and how nice Jenna and Jules’ life was before everything bad happened. Or is it because there’s a sequel being written?
Unsatisfying in the end as far as who did the killing, the cover up and why. And yeah, the wrong two sisters are dead.
7 years ago two girls lost their sisters 2 weeks apart. FF to the present, they join forces to find out what actually happened.
This was a pretty decent slow-burn mystery with a nice twist in the end that made it a worthwhile read.
The narration was really good!
See why thousands of readers are using Bookclubs to stay connected.