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  • Published: 8 August 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241621615
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $32.99

Just Another Missing Person

The gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author




The edge-of-your-seat follow-up to universally acclaimed break-out Top-5 bestseller Wrong Place, Wrong Time . . .

OLIVIA. 22 years old. Last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley. And not coming back out again. Missing for one day and counting . . .
Julia is the detective heading up the case.
She knows what to expect. A desperate family, a ticking clock, and long hours away from her children.
But Julia has no idea how close to home it's going to get.
Because her family's safety depends on one thing: Julia must NOT find out what happened to Olivia - and must frame somebody else for her murder . . .
What would you do?

  • Published: 8 August 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241621615
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $32.99

About the author

Gillian McAllister

Gillian McAllister has been writing for as long as she can remember. She graduated with an English degree and lives in Birmingham, where she now works as a lawyer. Her debut novel Everything But The Truth was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. You can find her on Twitter @gillianmauthor.

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Praise for Just Another Missing Person

Praise for Wrong Place, Wrong Time

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It's absolutely AMAZING. The plot is astonishing - original and ingenious

Marian Keyes

A spellbinding 'whydunnit'. A novel with a difference. Richly layered

Sunday Times

It's perfection, every word, every moment. A masterpiece . . . I had my mind blown apart. After I finished it I sat with my mouth hanging open in awe. One of the best books I've ever read

Lisa Jewell

Ingenuously plotted

Guardian

Another masterpiece from the queen of the emotional thriller. This book has one of the best twists I've ever come across. It's a super-smart detective story, a gripping missing-person thriller and a powerful mother-daughter drama, all rolled into one beautiful novel

Beth O'Leary

I've been known to create a few plot twists in my time, but there was a point during JUST ANOTHER MISSING PERSON where I sat up and shouted in shock. Gillian McAllister stunned me . . . and she will stun you too. I dare you to not ingest this in one sitting

JODI PICOULT, No 1 New York Times bestselling author

The new queen of the what-would-you-do crime thriller is back with a tightly-plotted and twist-packed tale which will send your head spinning and have you asking how far you would go to protect your child. Be prepared to read it twice and kick yourself [for] the clever clues you missed the first time round!

Ellery Lloyd, bestselling author of The Club

Amazingly good

MARIAN KEYES

That. Twist. You will gasp out loud and question everything you've read so far... with Just Another Missing Person, Gillian McAllister has secured her crown as the queen of the mind-bending plot twist.

HOLLY SEDDON

Another sure fire hit, we expect excellence from McAllister and she delivers

ADELE PARKS

A deftly plotted police procedural with a shocking twist

Red

A gasp-inducing twist we wager you won't see coming, a whip-smart, fast-paced plot, this crime thriller will leave you breathless

Sunday Post

McAllister piles twist on startling twist, but always in the service of carefully drawn characters with real human problems. A first class thriller

Mail on Sunday

A chilling mystery

i paper

Jaw-droppingly good

Sun on Sunday

An impossible dilemma . . . will keep you gripped

Best

Another fantastic, gripping McAllister read, ideal for the summer weeks ahead.

Glamour

An involving, cracking story, filled with tension

Literary Review

A clever and ingeniously plotted thriller with a series of jaw-dropping twists that made this reader gasp out loud. Fresh from the success of last year's bestselling Wrong Place Wrong Time, McAllister has delivered another stunning novel certain to delight

Daily Express

[An] intricately plotted, unexpected thriller

Good Housekeeping

Extraordinary and Sinister. The mystery overlaps with blackmail and revenge in a dark and convoluted plot that takes the breath away.

Daily Mail

A stunning, clever and ingeniously plotted thriller with jaw-dropping gasp out loud twists

The Sunday Express

Extraordinary...a plot that takes the breath away

Daily Mail

Gillian McAllister is a writer at the top of her game and Just Another Missing Person is another cleverly crafted, emotional and thought provoking thriller with one of the best twists I’ve read. Superb

CLAIRE DOUGLAS