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It’s Christmas Eve 1998, and 15 year old Annie Ryan vanishes without a trace from her wealthy uncle’s estate. Her uncle, desperate for answers, turns to Bobby McGowan—the same guy who recently cracked open his own mother’s decades-old murder. As Bobby starts digging, he realizes Annie’s disappearance isn’t as clean-cut as it seems and this family is hiding way more than just grief. The deeper he goes, the more twisted things get—and someone out there will do anything to keep the past buried.
I powered straight into The Other Annie which is book two in Brian O’Sullivan’s Bobby McGowan series as soon as I finished The Photo Album because Bobby’s “I’m-not-a-cop-but-watch-me-solve-this” vibe had me hooked.
This time, his reputation lands him a job on a twenty-year-old cold case involving fifteen-year-old Annie Ryan, who vanished from her uncle’s estate on Christmas Eve, and everyone in that snow-dusted mansion is sketchy.
Missing-person thrillers are my sweet spot bc nobody simply disappears and somebody always knows something so I spent the whole read interrogating the pages and still face-planted when the twist hit. Brian O'Sullivan never fails to deliver.
The Other Annie is perfect if you live for cold-case mysteries, stubborn amateur sleuths, and family secrets wrapped in holiday lights. BUT as I mentioned it is book #2 in a three book series so you will want to read The Photo Album before diving into this one.
