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Author: Alafair Burke
ISBN : B009NFDQ40
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If You Were Here is a thrilling novel of suspense from Alafair Burke, the author Dennis Lehane calls “one of the finest young crime writers working today.”
Manhattan journalist McKenna Jordan is chasing the story of an unidentified woman who heroically pulled a teenaged boy from the subway tracks. When she locates a video that captures part of the incident, she thinks she has an edge on the competition scrambling to identify the mystery heroine, but is shocked to discover that the woman in the video bears a strong resemblance to Susan Hauptmann, a close friend who disappeared without a trace a decade earlier.
What would have been a short-lived metro story sends McKenna on a dangerous search for the missing woman—a search that will force her to unearth long-buried truths much closer to home…
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- File Size: 536 KB
- Print Length: 389 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0062208357
- Publisher: Harper (June 4, 2013)
- Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
- Language: English
- ASIN: B009NFDQ40
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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McKenna Wright is an attorney-turned-journalist after a rather inglorious end to her career in law after she jumps to conclusions in a police shooting. She is now covering the story of a mystery woman who dead-lifts a teenager off the tracks seconds before he would be hit by an oncoming subway car. Footage of the incident is inexplicably missing... except for a snippet on someone's cellphone camera. When McKenna sees that, she is convinced that the mystery woman is her friend Susan Hauptman, who vanished without a trace 10 years ago.
McKenna becomes obsessed with finding the woman in question.
Simultaneously, she is pursuing the story of a corrupt judge and, just like the end of her law career, she is fired, disgraced, discredited, and generally humiliated.
So what happened to Susan Hauptman? Alive or dead? Hiding and why?
What is she really up to?
What's going on with the judge scandal?
And why has the last remaining video now vanished?
Fortunately, (or not) McKenna now has LOTS of time on her hands, and can investigate all of these questions, enlisting the aid of the police detective who hates her from years ago, various family members of Susan's into whose homes she bullies her way, and a whole lot of other people who want nothing to do with her.
Sound like a lot going on? Oh yes. Alafair Burke is keeping more plates in the air than most jugglers. And she does tie them all together at the end. But I came away unsatisfied. I was looking forward to a great meal and it was okay.
The tendency of people reading reviews is to read the 5 star reviews and the 1 star reviews. I didn't like it enough for 5. I didn't dislike it enough for 1.
If You Were Here is my first exposure to author Alafair Burke; however, it will not be my last! I can hardly wait to read her debut thriller, Judgment Calls.
An avid reader and fan of suspense thrillers, I was surprised at the quality of writing by an author that I had never heard of. This is one of the most entertaining that I have read in a long time.
Burke masterfully develops a complex storyline with believable and memorable characters. Normally, I am pretty good at guessing at where the story is going and whodunit, but that was not the case with this 358 page gem. The titillating twists and turns in this enjoyable engaging ride had me pivoting one way and then another guessing, figuring out motivations and wondering what was going to happen next.
Ten years earlier, McKenna Wright, then a young Assistant District Attorney was introduced to her future husband, former West Point graduate Patrick Jordan by their friend, Patrick's former classmate, Susan Hauptmann, daughter of an influential two star Army General.
About the time that Susan disappeared, McKenna was discredited and humiliated after going to the press with a story that police hero Officer Scott Macklin shot and killed a young black male Marcus Jones and then planted a gun in the victims hand, Newspaper Editor, gave her a job as a reporter.
Now, a decade later, a young lady captures a video of an unidentified female hero saving Nicky Cervantes, a young high school athlete from certain death from an oncoming train. McKenna thinks that the grainy video is her missing friend Susan.
About that time, McKenna's editor releases her block buster newspaper story involving a corrupt judge. Again, McKenna is discredited, humiliated and fired.