She charges through Missing, Presumed with twin goals?to find the body, and to find durable love. It all adds up to a world that feels much bigger than the novel in which it is contained.'? The Guardian 'Detective Sergeant Manon Bradshaw is appealing, multifaceted, and unforgettable. This novel stands out from the pack.'? Kirkus Reviews 'Where Steiner excels is in the depth and clarity with which she depicts her characters. Praise for Missing, Presumed 'A vein of dark humor pulses beneath this compelling whodunit with an appealing, complicated heroine at its center.'? Publishers Weekly 'A highly charismatic and engaging story. Suspenseful and keenly observed, Missing, Presumed is a brilliantly twisting novel of how we seek connection, grant forgiveness, and reveal the truth about who we are. With no clear leads, Manon summons every last bit of her skill and intuition to close the case, and what she discovers will have shocking consequences not just for Edith's family but for Manon herself.

As the search widens and press coverage reaches a frenzied pitch, secrets begin to emerge about Edith's tangled love life and her erratic behavior leading up to her disappearance. The investigation starts with Edith's loved ones: her attentive boyfriend, her reserved best friend, her patrician parents. Manon instantly knows that this case will be big?and that every second is crucial to finding Edith alive.

Her home offers few clues: a smattering of blood in the kitchen, her keys and phone left behind, the front door ajar but showing no signs of forced entry. Edith Hind?a beautiful graduate student at Cambridge University and daughter of the surgeon to the Royal Family?has been missing for nearly twenty-four hours.

One night, after yet another disastrous Internet date, she turns on her police radio to help herself fall asleep?and receives an alert that sends her to a puzzling crime scene.

Single and distant from her family, she wants a husband and children of her own. 'An extraordinarily assured police procedural in the tradition of Ruth Rendell and Elizabeth George.'?Joseph Finder, author of The Fixer At thirty-nine, Manon Bradshaw is a devoted and respected member of the Cambridgeshire police force, and though she loves her job, what she longs for is a personal life. For readers of Kate Atkinson and Tana French comes a page-turning literary mystery that brings to life the complex and wholly relatable Manon Bradshaw, a strong-willed detective assigned to a high-risk missing persons case.

Missing presumed a novel