Oh what a brilliant book this was!! Almost every chapter ended with a twist.
When I started reading it I did not pay attention to the title of the chapter and it was a bit confusing but once I realized it was a bunch of different POV’s it all tied together so well.
DCI Julia Day is investigating a missing person case. Everything starts from that point and rolls and winds around into a very twisty thriller.It was so good I had to reread it to catch all the stuff I missed the first time reading it.
Thankyou Netgalley and publishers for this ARC.

Wow! Twists and turns abound in this masterfully plotted novel. Much like in Wrong Place Wrong Time, this book took me a little while to get into, but once it gets going you can't put it down. I liked that the characters were complex and flawed, which made them more believable. Just Another Missing Person asks the question, "How far would you go for the people you love?" You'll have to read it to find out. Highly recommended! Expected publication is August 1, 2023.

Thank you NetGalley and William Morrow for the ARC.

At first this was a little bit slow and it took me a while to get into it but I really started to like it halfway through. Seemed like a similar plot to “wrong place wrong time” but it was still good. Characters were ok but I did enjoy the plot once I figured out part of it. I would recommend it to others.

What a ride!!! I could not put this one down and enjoyed every second of it. I felt so immersed and really wondered what I would do in the situation. I need to read more by this author immediately!

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you Netgalley, William Morrow and Custom House for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This book is a 3 person POV story, told from 3 different parents involved in the case, I usually struggle with different POV’s, as I find it hard to connect to characters when they have less time, however this story was done really well. This is a classic story of “who done it”. A missing girl, a detective who also is a mother and trying to juggle life, hunting for the girl, that faces many obstacles, along with the POV of the other two parties involved. I found the characters all to be likable & it was an easy read. I finished this book very quickly, as I felt that I needed to know what was going on!

Just Another Missing Person is the eighth book by author Gillian McAllister. It is an adult fiction/ mystery/thriller. Gillian McAllister is the same author of the highly popular Wrong Place Wrong Time novel of 2022.

The book is written from multiple POVs which I enjoyed because it helped you to learn more about the characters and their motivations.

Julia Day is a detective who is trying to solve a case involving missing person Olivia Johnson. Olivia was last seen walking down an alley that dead ends into a brick building. She is seen going into the alley, but never coming out.

Julia Day is an ethical officer of the law. She spends long hours trying to solve crimes. This keeps her away from her husband and teenage daughter. But Julia has a secret. One she does not want to get out because it could ruin her career and ruin her family.

While investigating Olivia’s disappearance, she is blackmailed by someone who knows her secret. She is told to frame someone for Olivia’s disappearance or they will reveal Julia’s secret.

Julia is faced with a tough decision, potentially having her secret revealed or crossing the line into corruption. This book also deals a lot with parent/child relationships as we see from the other POVs in the book. We see the lengths parents will go to for their children.

I enjoyed the multiple POVs in the book, the characters were likable and relatable. The book made you think a lot about what you would do if you were the parent of a missing person, the accused, or an ethical person just trying to protect her family.

I would recommend this to anyone who likes mystery/thriller books with lots of twists and reveals. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for review.

I really loved "Wrong Place Wrong Time" so I was very excited to read "Just Another Missing Person". Gillian McAllister is not only a great story teller but she makes the reader use their brain to keep up in a way many other authors don't demand. I won't say the ending had the same level of payoff as I had hoped but the overall story was great and I really liked the character development. Much like "Wrong Place Wrong Time", this is a fantastic book with lots of layers making it more that just a "thriller".

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this book in advance of publication.

Wow!! Gillian McAllister does it again!

I was sooo anxious reading this book! Nervous the whole time, devouring each page desperate to know how the story unravelled!

DCI Day is investigating the latest missing person case to hit a desk: a girl captured on CCTV entering a dead end alley, never to be seen again. As she starts to assess the information available, she is blackmailed and becomes something she never dreamed she'd become: a corrupt cop! Follow the many twists and turns throughout this plot to understand what is motivating each character, where the missing girl(s) are and who the bad guy is.

10/10 recommend picking this up!

It’s a bit tough for me to review this because Wrong Place Wrong Time was one of my favorite reads of 2023. It’s always going to be hard to follow up on something that stands out like that, especially only a few months later (in terms of when I read it).

As a whole, I really enjoyed this. The thriller was good, and there were some awesome twists that really shook things up for me. I also thought there was a sold thematic storyline here about good and evil and choices we make, particularly for others we love.

I think my biggest issue with the book might be an issue between the criminal justice system in the UK/US. I could be wrong but the main “crime” that Julia obsesses over from the first few pages seemed not that bad? She kept saying she’d spend years in prison for it, and I don’t know if that’s true in the US. Maybe I’m naive (I’m not a lawyer) but it was hard to feel the weight of it for that reason.

Overall, though, this was a great, fast-paced read with some awesome characters. Really well-crafted and multi-faceted characters, which is nice in this kind of book. I liked that there was grayness in them - no one was all good or all bad

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read if you like:
♡ multiple povs
♡ subplots upon subplots
♡ emotional thrillers

➸ with a name like just another missing person, you likewise anticipate just another mystery novel - gillian mcallister is here to break the mould once again with this irresistible emotional thriller. much more than an investigation into a missing person case, this is an audacious inquisition of motherhood and the lengths to which a mother may go in the hour of her child’s need.

➸ as 22 year old olivia is captured on cctv footage inexplicably vanishing into thin air, detective julia day is called upon to helm the investigation. with years of experience under her belt and a peerless work ethic, she’s more than equipped for the task. that is, until a secret julia’s been harbouring of her own is suddenly in danger of being revealed and the case gets all too personal for her and those she’s protecting.

➸ it is dark, morally compromising thrillers like these which place the nature of motherhood in sharp display and in turn, prompt the question of what-would-you-do. we read julia’s morally abject actions with a mixture of dread, empathy and a sort of fierce condescension at times. for we would never acquit ourselves in such an unscrupulous fashion… would we? and yet, in having julia be otherwise such an upstanding, morally inflexible and by the book character, it does compel a re-examination of ourselves. it is in some self-contained way a defensible path which julia embarks upon - an arguably moral one - for her motivation is pure and sacrifices, even those of our our own ethics, are an expedient of motherhood. flecked with these razor-edged examinations of goodness and rightness, every minute in which the case remains unsolved is weighted down with a sense of foreboding for julia’s soul.

➸ a slow-burn whydunnit potholed with a plethora of misdirections and red-herrings which will cleverly trip the reader up, the final reveal swept the rug out from beneath me. with these blind-alley turns in the plot and all these outwardly disparate puzzle pieces obstinately rebuffing any attempts to solve them, mcallister succeeds in pulling a fast one on seasoned mystery enthusiasts with a jaw-dropping conclusion.

➸ conclusion :
as a mother goes against the grain to save the future of her child every trickle of sand slipping down the hourglass counts in the one-of-a-kind just another missing person - and the inevitable downfall yanks us in as collateral.

thank you netgalley for the arc !

I LOVED this book. I read it in one sitting. I will say I didn't love the way the parents' POVs were like they were talking to their kids. I would've preferred the chapters to be in 1st person like Julia's POV. I couldn't have predicted anything in this book if my life depended on it. It was my second Gillian McAllister book and it will not be my last!!

Thank you NetGalley for this ARC! I read Wrong Place Wrong Time by this author and although I think both books deal with moral dilemmas, I def enjoyed how this one was done! I found this one to be confusing at times but it comes together nicely. So the story is being told by several narrators, Julia Lewis and Emma. Basically Julia is investigating Lewis’s missing daughter and while doing so someone decides to blackmail her. They want her to plant evidence at Olivia’s ((the missing girl)) house framing Emma’s son Matthew for her murder. If Julia doesn’t do it, her daughter, Genevieve, will be exposed for something she did. This was a twisty good time, you kind of have to keep track but the ending is worth it!

Ooohhh. This was absolutely stunning! I loved this! A great psychological thriller that I couldn't put down. I loved it!
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Julia is a detective that receives a call that a 22 year old girl is missing- walking into an alley and never coming out. She immediately begins investigating the case but finds herself getting blackmailed to plant false evidence framing somebody for a murder that may or may not have happened.
I’m enjoyed this read and was surprised at the twist at the end. Another great read by Gillian McAllister!

Wow! This was such a great book with just amazing twists and turns throughout.
A good cop faces her morality when confronted with the life and future of her daughter.
Missing girls and a family that has been affected by their missing daughter all tangle together to weave this excellent story!
I flew through this book, and highly recommend it to any who like a good thriller! It would be great for this to be turned into a series :)

What first caught my attention about this novel were the characters. They feel fully-developed and believable, with strengths and flaws and complicated emotions. They kept me reading, and hoping, and frightened. And then the twist! Perfectly timed and incredibly well-executed--this is an author who really knows her craft.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the ARC!

Twisty turny thriller with moral dilemmas. The story is told from multiple perspectives which sometimes gets a little confusing but still a fun read. Book starts off with a bang and slows down a bit in the middle. A bit of a predictable ending, unfortunately.

Thank you so much to @Netgalley for this advanced reader’s copy of Just Another Missing Person by Gillian McAllister. I adored McAllister’s Wrong Place Wrong Time last year and happy to report i enjoyed this novel as well. She does a great job with the excitement of police procedurals in conjunction with the heart of family drama.

In this novel, Detective Julia Day receives word of yet another missing girl. She’s still haunted by the missing girl she failed to find a year ago when she was wrapped up in a problematic personal situation. The walls are beginning to crumble, but Detective Day is determined to make it up to these girls.

Publishes August 1, 2023!

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I am SO grateful for the opportunity to read an early review copy of JUST ANOTHER MISSING PERSON by the inimitable Gillian McAllister🩷. Her previous book Wrong Place Wrong Time was one of my favorites last year and this one was just as good…if not better.

Olivia is missing. She’s 22 years old, and seems to have just…vanished. DCI Julia Day is assigned to her case, and as she begins to investigate, a dark secret from her past comes to the surface that will threaten to upend everything.

Nothing is as it seems in this novel, and I couldn’t put it down. Highly recommend this one - pick it up when it comes out August 1!!

A 22-year-old is seen on CCTV entering an alley, then seemingly vanishes. DCI Julia Day is assigned to the case, but is blackmailed into planting evidence and framing someone for murder. Her daughter had a secret that she is desperate to keep quiet.

Lots of twists, multiple POVs and timelines. I found it confusing at times and it got a little slow towards the middle. I did like the parent/child relationships and the book kept me guessing. Not my favorite from this author though.

Thank you to NetGalley and William Morrow for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.