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- Review of The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak's The Island of Missing Trees explores past Turkish-Greek conflicts in a small island community to her past, meanwhile her stranger of an aunt emerges, and with her, the possibility of filling in missing I listened to The Island of Missing TreesĀ as an audiobook.
- Review of Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles
I love a book about scrappy librarians , and Janet Skeslien Charles's historical fiction novel Miss Morgan's I listened to Miss Morgan's Book Brigade as an audiobook.
- Review of Heartwood by Amity Gaige
Amity Gaige's Appalachian Trail-set novel offers several of my favorite elements: a Maine setting, a missing-person of respect to match her commitment and ability, and Valerie, an Appalachian Trail hiker who has gone missing Beverly is known to be able to find missing persons, and she is set upon finding Valerie. I love a Maine setting, a missing-persons story, and a tale of brave women thriving in a traditionally Check out the titles at the links here for more missing person stories and for more books set in Maine
- Review of Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook by Celia Rees
Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook alludes to the way Edith includes coded intelligence within her letters
- Review of The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle #1) by Rene Denfeld
More missing-person stories If you like unlikely heroines and missing-person plots, you might also like And check out this link for more Bossy reviews of novels with missing-persons plots.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/11/25 Edition
Gillig's rich fantasy series with a slight romantic storyline; and I'm reading Amity Gaige's Heartwood , a missing-persons of respect to match her commitment and ability, and Valerie, an Appalachian Trail hiker who has gone missing Beverly is known to be able to find missing persons, and she is set upon finding Valerie. I love a Maine setting, a missing-persons story, and a tale of brave women thriving in a traditionally
- Review of The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean
I'm intrigued by a missing-persons story, and I'm a fan of Emiko Jean's writing. I'm fascinated by a missing-persons story . , Detective Chelsey Calhoun is shocked by the reappearance of Ellie Black, a young girl who's been missing Chelsey is especially invested in the case because her own sister Lydia went missing years earlier--before
- Review of Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
Kim's missing-person novel is a mystery and is structured around the discovery and exploration of what As the family works to find their missing member, various illuminating elements of the imperfect man
- Review of The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
The Personal Librarian is historical fiction about the real-life figure of Belle da Costa Greene, J.P Morgan's personal librarian who was Black and who hid her heritage in order to hold her position in early The Personal Librarian is Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray's historical fiction based on The personal emotional connection the authors offer as possibly having existed between Morgan and Greene I listened to The Personal Librarian as an audiobook.
- Review of King Nyx by Kirsten Bakis
King Nyx offers haunting imagery, sinister mysteries, unreliable memories, resurfacing past trauma, missing persons, unexplained deaths, and a children's fairy tale gone awry. other couple staying nearby seem to have dark secrets, the rumors they had heard on the mainland of missing
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/7/21 Edition
persons detective whose retreat to her hometown leads her into the middle of a missing person case there persons detective. When she experiences a personal tragedy of her own, she flees to the Northern California of her childhood But when she arrives, she finds out that a young local woman has gone missing. "Weaving together actual cases of missing persons, trauma theory, and a hint of the metaphysical, this
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/11/24 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Lisa Gardner's newest Frankie Elkin missing-person mystery, Still 01 Still See You Everywhere (Frankie Elkin #3) by Lisa Gardner Frankie Elkin is the best at finding missing She's an unassuming middle-aged woman and a recovering alcoholic who has a compulsion: to locate missing But her current mission is a first for Frankie: to find the long-missing sister of a convicted serial
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/26/24 Edition
Bookstore and Sourdough . 03 Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate In 1909 Oklahoma, one Choctaw sister goes missing But controversy over a new national park in the area, a missing teen hiker, and the discovery of the To find Bossy reviews of other missing-persons stories I've read, check out the books at this link .
- September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
fiction about an unplanned pregnancy; the real story of a beloved figure from stage, film, and song; a missing-person I'm fascinated by a missing-persons story . code-switcher who tailors his language to follow white people's expectations of a submissive Black person Yet the true horrors of life as an enslaved Black person in the deep South at the time of Twain's novel She defies societal expectations to provide for her baby and to find fulfillment in her personal and
- Review of When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain
California setting, imperfect Anna's rich and rocky history--and her messy road toward a version of personal Anna is a San Francisco missing persons detective in denial about the fact that her job has overtaken her personal life for years. When she experiences a personal tragedy, she flees to the Northern California of her childhood--a place setting, Anna's rich and rocky history, her search for answers--and a messy road toward a version of personal
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/23/23 Edition
Kim's missing-person story is also about a family deeply connecting to each other and going to extraordinary
- Six of My Favorite Mystery Reads of the Year
I'm fascinated by a missing-persons story . , Detective Chelsey Calhoun is shocked by the reappearance of Ellie Black, a young girl who's been missing Chelsey is especially invested in the case because her own sister Lydia went missing years earlier--before cognitive challenges until late in the book when multiple mentions were made regarding this; maybe I simple missed
- Review of Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens
and rugged terrain of British Columbia, along a highway where unsuspecting women traveling alone go missing Highway setting is based on the real-life "Highway of Tears" in British Columbia, where women have gone missing Many of these missing-person cases remain tragically unsolved. Chevy Stevens's first novel was Still Missing.
- Review of Fallen: A Novel of Suspense by Linda Castillo
The crime against Rachael is so vicious as to seem personal, and Kate must try to determine why Rachael like books featuring female detectives, you might like Paula McLain's When the Stars Go Dark, about a missing persons detective coping with her own tragedy; the historical fiction story A Curious Beginning; or
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/13/20 Edition
01 A Star Is Bored Author Byron Lane was Carrie Fisher's personal assistant in real life, and in his Kathi Kannon is a woman with a big, wacky personality who is also Hollywood royalty. Webb provides multiple mysteriously missing persons, mixed motivations, naive characters ruined by sinister people in power, and an occasional first-person narrator who isn't what they first seemed.
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
I most loved reading during the past month: When the Stars Go Dark, Paula McLain's newest, about a missing persons detective who experiences a personal tragedy and dives into solving the disappearances of young 01 When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain Anna is a San Francisco missing persons detective in denial about the fact that her job has overtaken her personal life for years. When she experiences a personal tragedy, she flees to the Northern California of her childhood--a place
- Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer
If you like unlikely heroines and missing-person plots, you might also like Before She Disappeared. 02
- Review of Trust No One (Devlin and Falco #1) by Debra Webb
Webb provides multiple mysteriously missing persons, mixed motivations, naive characters who might be ruined by the sinister people in power, and an occasional first-person narrator who isn't what they
- October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
This month my favorite reads were a missing-person camp story in two timelines; literary fiction set Both the world and the characters' personal lives are complicated, messy, wonderful, and fragile. going through the plane as if in a trance, announcing expected ages of and causes of death for each person couple, to Allegra herself, the Death Lady (as she is later called) announces a prediction of each person's
- November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Kim's missing-person novel is a mystery and is structured around the discovery and exploration of what
- Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Novels for Everyone on Your List
They have a fantastic selection of titles, staff members offer spot-on recommendations (and sparkling personalities Kim's missing-person novel is a mystery and is structured around the discovery and exploration of what
- Review of The Summer Guests (Martini Club #2) by Tess Gerritsen
in rural Maine while assisting (and sometimes running over) the local police chief to try to find a missing In The Summer Guests , they operate as a team to try to find a missing teen--both helping and annoying In book two of the Martini Club, the mystery at hand--a missing teen--draws in local citizens as well
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/9/24 Edition
Reading Now I'm reading Ava Glass's newest Emma Makepeace spy mystery, The Trap ; I'm listening to Miss Ava Glass is also the author of Alias Emma and The Traitor . 02 Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by Janet Charles I love a book about scrappy librarians , and Janet Skeslien Charles's historical fiction novel Miss I'm listening to Miss Morgan's Book Brigade as an audiobook.
- Review of All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham
Willingham's past and present storylines and by her unreliable narrator Isabelle, who is desperate to find her missing Is she paranoid, or is the podcaster taking too deep of an interest in Isabelle's personal past rather I have a realllly tough time reading missing-children stories, and somehow I missed that key plot point
- Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer
If you like unlikely heroines and missing-person plots, you might also like Before She Disappeared, which
- Six Books with Cold, Wintry Settings to Read by the Fire
If you like unlikely heroines and missing-person plots, you might also like Before She Disappeared, which
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/16/24 Edition
and a multi-million-dollar interstate drug ring; and I'm listening to a suspenseful mystery about a missing Jean Detective Chelsey Calhoun is shocked by the reappearance of Ellie Black, a young girl who's been missing Chelsey is especially invested in the case, because her own sister Lydia went missing years earlier,
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/17/24 Edition
is set in the wilderness and concerns old lovers thrown together in hopes of finding a mysteriously missing the author of other books I love: We All Want Impossible Things, Waiting for Birdy, and How to Be a Person But when her estranged old friend Janessa goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Emlyn must team
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/21/24 Edition
Dublin private school and the deadly secrets she attempts to uncover; and I'm listening to The Island of Missing This is the author's debut novel. 03 The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak My friend James and I I'm listening to The Island of Missing Trees as an audiobook.
- Review of The Colony by Annika Norlin
Her perspective forces each person to face the truth of what is missing from their lives and to resent
- Review of The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins
systematically assassinated in public shows of retaliation for their past crimes, Emi's mother Kristina goes missing Yet the wealthy are getting wealthier again, emissions threaten to creep up due to corporate greed, and
- Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Science and Nature Books
They have a fantastic selection of titles, staff members offer spot-on recommendations (and sparkling personalities wonder, appreciate, and work to preserve these fragile, special animals. 03 The Birds That Audubon Missed : Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness by Kenn Kaufman The Birds That Audubon Missed explores Kershenbaum Animals are constantly communicating to each other in a cacophany of sounds--chattering, hissing
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/7/25 Edition
And Princess Gisela of the Alpenwald, a dear friend of Alice's, goes missing just after Veronica shares It turns out that the mystery girl is her Aunt Carol, who was one of six Black girls to go missing in
- Review of Quantum Girl Theory by Erin Kate Ryan
recently published historical fiction mystery Quantum Girl Theory, Mary Garrett focuses on finding missing in the Jim Crow South to investigate a girl who has disappeared, she finds that two Black girls went missing As Mary's search for all three girls intensifies, we find that Mary herself was a "missing girl," Paula writing about the character I thought she was writing about, but that definitely could have been a personal
- My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads
developed memoir in which she explores her musical influences and influential high and low moments in her personal Williams shares stories of her childhood, her musical influences, and pivotal moments in her career and personal Kim's missing-person novel is a mystery and is structured around the discovery and exploration of what from across the globe; her older brother never seems to be around to help; and she's the only Black person
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/4/25 Edition
points of view, which together present fascinating questions about the true story of two disparate personalities by Michelle Huneven When Sally Samuelson was eight, her idolized golden-boy older brother Ellis went missing
- Review of Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment #1) by Rebecca Ross
Iris's beloved brother is missing in action in the war among the gods, and sending letters through a But the person receiving these missives is not Forest, but Iris's work nemesis, Roman.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/17/25 Edition
Ronnie regrets having missed out on love--and having missed out on leaving Faha.
- Review of System Collapse (Murderbot #7) by Martha Wells
System Collapse provides more of SecUnit's emotional coping with PTSD than action, and I missed the faster (I didn't feel as connected to the human team here as in other Murderbot books--and I always miss Mensah
- Review of Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson
He is, after all, an imperfect person whose fear of failure caused him to abandon each chance at a wonderfully The most tragic aspect isn't that his children were left, but that he missed out on time with these quirky
- Review of The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Thompson Walker
Byrd, Jane goes missing. Byrd's personal and professional life on dates she could not possibly have encountered him; and as she
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/13/25 Edition
The reality of her personal library seems destined to come to light--just as Lula and Beverly are running But now her family is in prison and her sister is missing.
- July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
And Princess Gisela of the Alpenwald, a dear friend of Alice's, goes missing just after Veronica shares in rural Maine while assisting (and sometimes running over) the local police chief to try to find a missing In book two of the Martini Club, the mystery at hand--a missing teen--draws in local citizens as well She's curious about everything and is the smartest person Sander knows.
- Review of Bug Hollow by Michelle Huneven
When Sally Samuelson was eight, her idolized golden-boy older brother Ellis went missing after his high Phil travels worldwide for his job, and his more appealing personality and our peek into his viewpoint
- Review of Charm City Rocks: A Love Story by Matthew Norman
I loved this story about relationships, complications, famous/everyday person romance, and a love of the embracing of the beauty in an everyday life and in straightforward affection, the heartbreak of missed The everyday-person/famous-person love is a favorite trope of mine, and Norman adds emotional complexities