Another gripping novel you won't be able to put down from the inimitable Kellye Garrett, one of the most gifted suspense authors writing today. We need more books by her and more books from all crime writers of color, who offer a perspective that's been underserved for decades.

Satisfying and twisty, Garrett has done it again.
I love a thriller with the right balance of modern complications (social media, VRBO/Air BNBs), twisted with the classic concerns of life, death, and public perception. This novel follows a woman who unexpectedly has to solve a murder, or else be framed for it. Highly recommended! Can't wait for this one to hit the shelves.

Heart pounding thriller that left me on the edge of my seat. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this one. Definitely one of the best books this year.

Fast=paced and insightful, this thriller had me entranced! Loved the mystery, the propulsive story-telling, and the high-stakes plot points. Character development was rich and detailed.

Kellye Garrett is a fresh and exciting voice in the mystery realm. In this novel, she gives us a naive protagonist who shuns ambition and has lived a stunted life ever since she was arrested after leaving a party and falsely accused of having weed in her car. With a criminal sentence in her background, she has given up on her dreams, until she meets a handsome, charming man who sweeps her off to a vacation in a luxurious Jersey City Airbnb, The neighbors are suspicious of the Black couple and are militantly searching for a missing white woman, with a TikTok influencer taking up the cause. Nevertheless, they begin to have a wonderful time traveling to Manhattan - though her boyfriend keeps breaking his promise to leave work behind. She's getting impatient with his furtive phone conversations until one morning she wakes up to find him missing and a dead white woman on the floor.

On the whole, I enjoyed reading this story, though I found the protagonist a bit hard to get to know, and her rapid-changing attitudes about her missing boyfriend was a little irritating (though not unrealistic). Toward the end, either I wasn't paying enough attention or there were some major plot holes. But the author's understanding of social media and her use of it in the story (as in Garrett's earlier Like a Sister) was intriguing.

Slow, but pretty good too. The writing was amazing and sharp I have no doubt that this author is incredibly talented. I'll be recommending it to certain readers for sure.

The premise of Missing White Woman immediately caught my attention and I was so excited to read it. I assumed from the summary and the first sentence of the book that the reader would be immediately thrown into the action. Unfortunately, this has a really, really slow build. The first 20% feels like background and scene-setting without much to amp up the tension. Even though I found Bree to be an interesting narrator, I didn't feel compelled to keep reading. I think if the author had brought in the mystery element much sooner, this would have held my attention longer.

Love the pitch, was very excited about this, and the author can certainly write, but felt the narrative tension was lacking here.