Thanks so much to the publisher and to NetGalley for giving me access to this book. British police procedurals are a great genre. This novel is the first in a series of three. It is the great beginning to a series. I have recommended this to many patrons.

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Erin's review Aug 01, 2017 · edit
really liked it
bookshelves: i-recommend

I love a British police procedural and this one is no exception. DS Manon Bradshaw is a compelling character, but now without flaws in her personal life which makes her much more relatable and compelling. As she tried to solve the mystery of what happened to missing graduate student Edith Hind there are plot twists and turns including a second murder. I recommend this novel as a excellent mystery with well fleshed out and intriguing characters.

This noir thriller is a first-in-series featuring police detective Manon Bradshaw, a forty-ish member of a Cambridge area police force. Manon is a loner workaholic who is beginning to feel the need to share her life with someone but her inept attempts to find someone have been unsuccessful. She is often surly and easily irritated by interaction with her work colleagues, but underneath her difficult personality is a concern for others and a desire to "step up and take people on" when they are in need. Manon's relationships with her co-workers, her dad, and her sister are thorny: she often handles people awkwardly and blurts out things better left unsaid, and her online dating experiments have been uniformly disastrous.
Manon and her fellow officers are investigating the disappearance of the daughter of a socially-prominent local family, and fears are growing daily that the girl has come to harm. The mystery of Edith's vanishing is somewhat slow to develop, but the tension ratchets up in the novel's second half. The characters are exceptionally well-fleshed out and believable, and the atmosphere of the police station comes across authentically. Although the novel and the characters' lives are quite dark and depressing, the novel ends on a more hopeful note. The excellent writing and the characters are the high points of the novel for me, and I will definitely read the next books in the series.

I really enjoyed this first book in a new police procedural series. I will continue to read the novels featuring this character.

After reading a few chapters, I decided this book held no interest for me at this time nor was it a good fit for my blog. I elected not to finish the book now, but it may well be a case of "the right book at the wrong time" syndrome and I might be willing to try it again in the future. Thank you to Random House Publishing Group – Random House and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to sample this title.

I still think about this book and thought I had sent the review in! Better late than never. Susie Steiner is a master with who done its! Her settings are a much a character with the clues they hold as the suspects themselves. I will be adding all of her titles to my TBR list!

Steiner has written a near perfect British police procedural. As you might predict from the title, "Missing, Presumed", tells the story of a beautiful young Cambridge student, Edith Hind, who disappears without a trace one evening from her flat. Catching the case on her scanner, Detective Manon Bradshaw, age 39, is soon entrenched questioning suspects who may have wished young Edith harm. Steiner has created an appealing cast of police officers who are carefully drawn. This mystery novel has a bit more in- depth characterization and description than most, which I enjoyed.
Unputdownable with a nice twist at the end.

Thanks to Susie Steiner and Random House Publishing Group - Random House for a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Mid-December, and Cambridgeshire is blanketed with snow. Detective Sergeant Manon Bradshaw tries to sleep after yet another soul-destroying Internet date – the low murmuring of her police radio her only solace.

Over the airwaves come reports of a missing woman – door ajar, keys and phone left behind, a spatter of blood on the kitchen floor. Manon knows the first 72 hours are critical: you find her, or you look for a body. And as soon as she sees a picture of Edith Hind, a Cambridge post-graduate from a well-connected family, she knows this case will be big.

Is Edith alive or dead? Was her ‘complex love life’ at the heart of her disappearance, as a senior officer tells the increasingly hungry press? And when a body is found, is it the end or only the beginning?

Unfortunately this one fell a bit short for me and lacked the rich plot I was looking for.

Loved the characters and the alternating chapters told by different characters, but I was hoping for a more surprising ending.

The writing was strong but this book just didn't grab me. As some procedurals go, it can get a tad boring at times. It was an okay effort.

Although i dont have any thing negative to say about this book, i dont really have anything positive to say. The book was okayish and I would read more by the same author, But i did not find it gripping nor exciting.

This was an interesting procedural that kept me guessing to the end! I didn't realize I hadn't written the review, but 2 1/2 years later, I am able to recall details, and that is saying something!

I received this book quite some time ago, but just finished it because it didn't appear in my Kindle list. I'm sorry. I don't ready many British detective stories and found this one to be very interesting. I will definitely read more from this author.

Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner
Another terrific Detective Sargent Manon Bradshaw investigation into a missing person in Cambridgeshire. This British police procedural ticks all the excitement boxes in the storyline. Recommended read.

This book was a keeper. The writing wad strong and I found myself hooked...I never wanted to put it down. I hope to read more of Steiners books in the future.

The author is masterful in her character descriptions, and for that reason, I will read the next in the series. I had to reread several of her descriptive passages, they were so well done. If you're looking for high suspense and clever plot twists, though, you might look elsewhere.

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House for this free readers edition. In exchange I am providing an honest review.
3.5 stars
I really cannot get enough of this genre.
A young 20-something woman has gone missing in the middle of the night. Front door left open, wineglass shattered, spots of blood. CCTV doesn't give any hints as to where she went or who might have taken her. DS Manon Bradshaw has been called in on the misper case which is quickly discovered to be high-profile due to the woman, Edith, who went missing. Her dad is part of the Royal Surgery. Along with the rest of her assembled team they start tracking down Edith's last days and minutes - where did she go, who did she talk to, etc. But the investigation is slow and yielding no results and frustrating everyone involved. Where did Edith disappear to and is she still alive?
Steiner did a good job at making the reader feel the drudgery of this misper case. I was getting increasingly frustrated at the dead end leads and the fizzled out theories about where Edith might have been taken off to. I liked how Steiner gave Manon character development through her personal life as well as her professional life and how she drew a picture of the work-life balance that can be hard to have in a profession like law enforcement. And I liked the outcome Steiner chose to have for the Edith part of the story, it was a bit different than your usual fare.

I really just couldn't get into the story or the crime, which is too bad because I thought it would be really good.

I did not like this book. This is my third attempt to write a review on a book that I truly disliked, so I'll just tell you what I think without sugar-coating it.
I did not like the characters. They were not well developed, one-dimensional. I felt that some of the characters were added to support a story line that was not strong, and that the characters were almost non-existent. The only character that was believable was a total wimp!
I did not like the story line either. It was contrived and felt forced. As I continued to read this book, which I felt an obligation to do since I had been granted an advanced readers copy, my disdain for the author increased. I felt that I was wasting my time, and now I'm again giving credence to a less-than-ideal book in writing about it.
By the end, I also disliked the title of the book immensely--talk about a spoiler!
Now, you will be surprised to find that I did like the author's style. She has an interesting way of expressing herself that I found refreshing. With a good story and some more in-depth characters, she has potential. I think she needs a stronger editor to push her in developing her craft. Comparing her to Kate Atkinson was a stretch--and that was the main reason I requested this book.