Wow! I absolutely loved this book. I stayed up late to finish it, because I couldn’t put it down, and then couldn’t sleep because I was thinking of all the twists and turns this book took!

Julia Day is a detective on a missing persons case of a girl, Olivia. I absolutely could not put this book down, and highly recommend for all of the whodunnit/mystery/thriller lovers out there.

Thank you Net Galley for my advanced copy!

Julia is a lead detective on a case involving a missing woman. This case and her personal life start to cross over and she finds herself having to make decisions. How much will she do to protect her family?

I had a hard time getting into this book at the beginning, but once I did, I needed to finish it and know what happened. It was a roller coaster with all the twists and turns.

Thank you Netgalley for the advanced readers copy of this fabulous book!

My book club read Wrong Place, Wrong Time last year, and I was enthralled. Then I read The Good Sister, and I knew I was going to read everything Gillian McAllister writes. Just Another Missing Person has all the hallmarks of a McAllister thriller: concerned parents, morally gray decisions, and emotional intensity. The three narrators are parents, each with a kid in their late teens/early twenties. Julia is a detective with a high-school aged daughter, Lewis is the father of a missing girl, and Emma’s son was a person of interest when his girlfriend went missing a year ago. The three parents all orbit around each other, occasionally connecting, as a new girl has gone missing. Each parent has made questionable decisions for their child and are now facing the consequences.
The parents are written as real people. They’re flawed, desperate, and with time, willing to do almost anything for their child. And yet, I was drawn to each of them because of their loyalty and desperation. And as each parent seems to reach a safety point, a hidden plot twist brings them back to rock bottom. The story bounces between two timelines: the current year where Julia is investigating the disappearance of a girl named Olivia, and a year prior, where Julia was investigating the disappearance of Lewis’s daughter, Sadie. Each timeline has a perfect blend of mystery and procedural drama, with Julia’s investigative work the center of each.
This book is a thought-provoking, heart-wrenching, trippy timeline thriller, in line with McAllister’s other titles. If you enjoy her thrillers, or have ever had one recommended to you, READ THIS when it comes out. Thank you to NetGalley and William Morrow for sending me an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Just Another Missing Person ARC Review! 🕵️‍♀️
Rating: 4.5/5 ⭐️’s

Olivia, a 22 year old girl was last seen on cctv going somewhere and was never seen again after that. Julia, a detective, mother, and is leading the investigation. This mystery thriller was brilliant, as all of Gillian’s stories are. One of my auto buy authors. I could not put this down, I finished it in one single sitting. Almost every single chapter left me on the edge of my seat. The characters are flawed, not perfect, have their own baggage, but that’s what I love so much about Gillian’s characters. They’re real, they’re raw. Highly recommend! I can’t wait for it to come out so I can have a physical copy for spooky season!

Thank you Net Galley for the ARC of Just Another Missing Person. One of my all time favorite authors. Such a privilege and exciting moment to be able to read the arc and write this review. 📖

This is my second Gillian McAllister book and I'm so thrilled to have found her! Just Another Missing Person is a twisty tale of police woman Julia and her search for a missing girl. The story is told from multiple points of view.
It took me a little while to really get into the story but it was worth the time and effort! I highly recommend Just Another Missing Person!
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this digital ARC.

A young woman, Olivia, goes missing one night in a dead-end alley. Julia is the detective on the case and in charge of the operation to find her. Julia doesn’t really how close to home this case will get, as the person behind it seems to know Julia’s deepest darkest secret. Julia must choose between finding Olivia and solving the case or keeping her secrets- and her family- safe.

This story is told from several perspectives, however, primarily Julia’s perspective. She is caught in a tricky situation, and I loved reading her thoughts as she goes back and forth in her decision-making throughout the book. She is a complex character who struggles with her dedication to her career and her family equally. The book starts fairly slow, but it picks up around the halfway point, as the twists start to be revealed. This is a book where you truly don’t know who is who, who is good, and who is bad. Everyone’s motives are questionable throughout the book, until the end, at which point the seemingly unrelated pieces come together for the reveal. My rating of 3-stars was due to the pacing of the book- I felt it was slow in parts and then rushed through other parts. Also, I picked up on the ending, therefore, there wasn’t a huge shock factor for me.

Read if you enjoy:
👮🏼 police detective suspense
🔍 missing person crimes
👩‍👧 mother-daughter bonds
👀 plots with blackmail and corruption
🤫 people pretending to be other people
🔀 multiple POVs

I read this book courtesy of @NetGalley!

I did not simply READ this book; I DEVOURED it. Page after page, twist after twist, revelation after revelation.

Olivia. 22. Last seen on CCTV entering a dead-end alley. She never comes back out.

Julia. Mother. Wife. DCI heading the investigation.


The request is simple: frame someone for the murder of the missing girl. When asked to do the unthinkable, DCI Julia Day must choose between her career and her daughter, an easy choice for the dedicated detective. But in the aftermath, a clock begins to tick. She must find out what happened to Olivia before the ripple of her choices are felt; and before it’s too late for her daughter.

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

˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ 4/5 stars

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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