I am so thankful to Atria Books, Netgalley, and Catherine McKenzie for granting me advanced digital access to this jarring thriller. I couldn't put it down and can't wait to consume more of this like-minded content going forward.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

𝘼 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙠 𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙦𝙪𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙔𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙋𝙖𝙧𝙠.

I read 𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗨𝘀 last year and had such a fun time with it. I went into this one with high expectations and wasn’t expecting it to compare to the previous book, but I actually liked this one more - which is kind of shocking because I loved 𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗨𝘀!

This one takes place at Yosemite National Park, and I honestly think the book itself is worth the read because of the eerie setting. We are also introduced to three different women, but there’s something there that ends up connecting them all to one another.

Cassie, Petal, and Jada each have their own differences and dark secrets… but their paths intersect... I won’t say how, but I actually loved how they connected and the way their stories came together.

This book is structured into two timelines: then and now. We get Cassie’s POV, journal entries, Instagram posts, news articles, and YouTube transcripts. I absolutely loved the way this book was structured. I had so much fun trying to piece what happened to the missing women and how each format intertwined together.

I am a huge fan of this author and definitely need to go back and read her backlist titles. She writes these very well-developed characters you actually care for. There are twists thrown that add to the overall story, I kept trying to guess throughout the book.

This book was absolutely wild and thrilling. I was intrigued by the story from the very beginning. I don’t think the ending will be for everyone, but I actually really enjoyed it. The mystery was wrapped up so well and I was not expecting to care for these women - but I did! I would highly recommend picking this stunning thriller up!

Thank you so much NetGalley and Atria Books for the review copy in exchange for my honest review!

Catherine McKenzie was born and raised in Montreal, Canada.
I love finding new Canadian authors....or just new to me lol
I enjoyed this read and binged it with one go
Could not put it down and wanted more
Will read more of Catherine's work!!!

In Have You Seen Her, Cassie in an attempt to get away from her abusive significant other in NYC runs back towards her haunting past spent with the Yosemite Search and Rescue (SAR) team, where she found one of her friends dead a decade ago under suspicious circumstances. Finding Cameron like that still haunts Cassie but she goes back to work with the SAR team and wants to fly under the radar for a while incommunicado from her prior life. When a young couple disappears inside the park, it digs up memories and secrets from the past.

This is my first time reading one of Catherine’s books and I definitely think she will be a new auto-read author for me! I wouldn’t necessarily classify this as a thriller, but it was very suspenseful and entertaining and had plenty of plot twists I didn’t see coming. As a result, I breezed through it in 24 hours with no regrets. It was a very unique plot. I’ve never read anything involving SAR before. And I liked the ending.

Thank you so much to Atria Books, Catherine, and NetGalley for the advance reader’s copy!

Although I didn't love this one as much as Please Join Us, I remain a huge fan of Catherine McKenzie's writing!

Cassie is running from her husband and old life in NYC and has taken a job in Search and Rescue at Yosemite National Park, a job she held ten years ago back where she grew up. When a young couple goes missing, she finds herself wrapped up in a haunting experience from her past.

The past and present action is told through alternating timelines, journal entries, social media posts and news articles, and the reader -- in a true, slow-burn style -- comes to understand what Cassie has been experiencing as past and present collide.

This is a great read for those who enjoy slow-burn mysteries and stories about nature and rock climbing.

Thanks to Atria books, Catherine McKenzie and Netgalley for the ARC!

Cassie Peters has left her busy life and abusive husband in New York City. Armed with a burner phone she returns to her roots and somehow quickly falls back into old patterns. As people start to go missing around her, there seems to be a striking similarity to the last time she was home. Or is there?

Good read! Loved uncovering the connections and mysteries at the end. Highly recommended.

* I received an advanced reader’s copy of this book from NetGalley and Atria Books in exchange for my honest review

This was entertaining read with an ending I did not see coming and while I liked being surprised - it was my least favorite part of the story. I enjoy reading books when the bad guys (whose identity is the surprise in this one) get what's coming to them and the ending let me down a little in this respect. It was, however, still a fun and easy read with great suspense and interesting characters. Additionally I really enjoyed the setting (Yosemite) and all the Search and Rescue details. 3.75 stars.

At the start of this novel, we see Cassie being helicoptered out of Yosemite with a dead body at her feet, before flashing back to the beginning of the summer when she fled her life in NYC to work Search and Rescue at Yosemite. Plus we find out that ten years earlier Cassie had worked that same job at Yosemite, then fled there after some kind of incident. So right off the bat there are a lot of mysteries - who is the dead body, and what are the reasons Cassie uprooted her life both ten years ago and now. Plus, in between chapters we also see social media posts from a woman named Jada, and a diary from a woman named Petal, both headed to Yellowstone, so there’s also the question of how their stories will intersect with Cassie’s.

So, lots of mysteries going on, but all are satisfyingly answered eventually, and with some surprises I did not see coming. However, enough timelines and different strands that this is definitely one I recommend reading visually rather than on audiobook.

I’m a long time fan of Catherine McKenzie - in fact, this was the 10th book of hers I’ve read! (I still have a few more of her older books on my backlist books to read list.) Her early books are more contemporary fiction, and then somewhere along the way she transitioned to books which land somewhere on the suspense/mystery/thriller continuum. But whatever the genre, I know she’s always going to give me an interesting main character and a fun ride to the end.

Have You Seen Her is a story of Cassie a woman with a past on the run, as things are slowly revealed. She is hiding out working rescue on Yosemite, and this was the part of the story I enjoyed the most. The rescues, the setting. Cassies story the intersects with 2 other female stories, and eventually there is a payoff at the end with a surprise ending with Petal. Otherwise it was a slow burning book.

Moving from New York to Yosemite, Cassie is running from her past. Almost a decade before there were a couple of missing hikers in Yosemite. Cassie teams up with some people from her past and new ones to help solve the case of the missing hikers.

This was a slow burn for me. Took a while for me to really get into it, It wasn't until about the end where it started to pick up and I was intrigued.

If you love thriller, suspense, mystery, I recommend. Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC in return for an honest review.

Have You Seen Her is a dual timeline suspense thriller centering on Cassie as she is being helicoptered out of a remote location in Yosemite with a dead body. This is one that is best to go in blind, but you will learn about the years just before she left the area originally, her time and marriage in NYC and her current job back in Yosemite & Mammoth Lakes. I enjoyed the setting and there were so many different little mysteries, you never are sure if they are separate or tie together. In the end I found it all wrapped up in a satisfying way. Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for an advance copy in exchange for my honest opinion. Have You Seen Her is now available.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book.

This was an OK read. Most of the book was a slow burn and sometimes a bit boring. The ending was a surprise, but not in a good way, just pretty unbelievable. Didn't really connect with any of the characters and the ending made me like them even less. Can't say I'd recommend this one.

Catherine McKenzie has done it again: written another compulsively readable mystery, this time set in the woods amid a team of search and rescue professionals. The ending requires a few leaps in togic, but the overall story is compelling and kept me guessing 'til the very end.

Have You Seen Her by Catherine Mckenzie

My rating:
3/5
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A story of three women, Cassie, Jada & Petal & how their stories intertwine in Yosemite National Park.

This one is a tough one to rate for me. I think this story had a lot of set up in order to tell the full story. I was hooked at 75% to the end. So much so that I had to finish it this morning. I can see how everything ties together in the end and all my questions were answered. I wish there was a little more suspense in the middle of this book.

Overall I think this was a good read, but not my favorite. Would I recommend it? If you enjoy the outdoors and a slow thriller, maybe! I was definitely surprised with the ending and how it all came together, so I have to give the author lots of credit for that, but the rest of the book was rather dry.

Thank you netgalley for the ARC! You can read this one now!

Ok, keeping this short and sweet, because I think this was totally a me problem, not a book problem. I wasn’t feeling the setting being in the woods and rock climbing. I felt like it was moving a little too slow for my mood. I may come back to it and try it again another time. Who knows?!

This had a great mix of physical danger within the Yosemite wilderness. This also have secrets survival and leaves the reader wanting more. I would encourage others to read this. Looking forward to what the author has in store next

Have You Seen Her was an adventurous thriller - while it starts and ends strong, the middle dragged a bit for me and felt a little repetitive. That said, I loved the twist at the end and how all the loose ends came together. This was a great and entertaining thriller!

Firstly, thank you Net Gallery for a fantastic read!
"That's how it started. Three women connecting across the country in anonymity. Providing support, solace, a lack of judgement. When we escape, that's what our fantasy was called. When we escape, we'll fill in whatever blank you wanted. Be happy, find love, live without fear, make better romantic choices."
This was a really enjoyable twister for me.
I’m looking forward to reading more of Catherine McKenzies novels.

I could not get into this book. Unfortunately, it is not for me. I found the writing to be simple and not interesting.

This was a fast placed mystery. At first it seems like the average book, but then the time frame chances and puts you into a "What's going on? " scenario. With two time lines there are nuances you need to keep track of. All this wrapped together kept me interested and wanting to keep going. The big twist at the end is a surprise I didn't see coming.