Gillian has done it again! She has really found a way to keep you on your toes through out this whole novel! She has become and insta buy author for me.

I really enjoyed this thriller. It was full of surprises along with great characters. I always enjoy seeing all the pieces come together in one of Gillian’s books.

This book had a very interesting concept and I was excited to figure out the mystery. But my overeagerness might hve led me to figure out the twist way too early. Thereafter it was just skipping and skimming to confirm my predictions. So even with the interesting plot it was too predictable for me. I am giving it 3/5 stars

I received a free eARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This was fun! I don't know if it had the greatest twist of all time, as several other reviews have mentioned, but it was a good execution of that twist at least.

Our protagonist is a detective named Julia who has just been assigned a missing person case. Julia is your typical married-to-the-job type...except she has an actual family she's neglecting. Nonetheless, she throws herself into the case of Olivia Johnson, and although she has a reputation for doing everything staunchly by the book, she's suddenly pulled into an actual conspiracy. A man breaks into her car and threatens her - not only is she NOT to go searching for Olivia, but she needs to frame someone else for Olivia's murder (mind you, at this point she's just missing - there's no body), or the guy will tell her bosses about the crime Julia covered up a year ago...

In between Julia's chapters, we hear from two parents - Lewis and Emma. Both of their chapters are addressed to a mysterious "you", although they aren't addressing the same person. Lewis is speaking to his missing daughter (whom we are meant to assume is Olivia), while Emma is speaking to her son Matthew, and it's unclear at first what role he's playing in all of this. It transpires that Matthew is the person Julia is meant to frame for murder.

We eventually learn that nothing is as it seems with any of these people. The case keeps getting more complicated, and there's just something not quite right about Olivia...including the fact that her housemates have never actually met her in person.

It's entertaining, but it's all a little convoluted, and there are a few convenient plot points that strain believability. For a book with an even better execution of this twist, I'd definitely recommend The Trap by Catharine Ryan Howard. Totally caught me off guard.

I liked her first book better, but this one was still good. Slow beginning but I still wanted to know what happened.

A great twist thriller! I would recommend this to mystery lovers but thought her other book was stronger.

In this page turner a detective has to make a choice about an impossible moral situation. This book will leave you on the edge of your seat. The detective has some hard choices to make and figure the crime out. A really good thriller that will leave you asking lots of questions.

ARC from NetGalley* overall a fun read! The first 3rd was tough for me to get into, but after that I couldn’t put it down! Highly recommend if you’re looking for a fun, thrilling mystery!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an advanced copy of Just Another Missing Person by Gillian McAllister.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the eARC!

3.5 rounded up. I’m not sure how to feel about this. I didn’t entering love the writing style, there were a lot of commas. Like, a lot. But it didn’t bother me enough to stop reading it.

I was a little bored at times but overall was invested and wanted to know what happened. I didn’t see most of the twists coming and overall enjoyed it more than i didn’t. I’m glad I have it a shot!

I will say, Art felt pretty useless in this but I guess I understand why he was so prominent in the end. Also, I liked price a lot.

I finally got around to reading Flynn’s second novel! I was really looking forward to this because I was one of the few who did not love her first, but I think I disliked this one even more. I did receive an early release of this, but had a hard time getting into it so I had to start fresh a few weeks ago.

This murder mystery follows Detective Julia Day who is investigating a 22 year old missing person, Olivia, who up in vanished. The last CCTV footage of Olivia shows her entering a dead end alley and never leaving. As Julia begins to investigate she is blackmailed into planting false evidence, that could lead to framing someone different entirely. But what does the black mailer have on Julia, why does he want to frame her, and what happened to Olivia?

I think the plot of this novel is what initially drew me in. A mystery with lots of plot twists is right up my alley, however I find this novel very hard to follow. Initially I thought it was slow moving and then became convoluted. It is told from the perspective of three different characters, two in first person and one in second person.

Ultimately, I was a bit disappointed and would not recommend.

This was a thriller that exists and I read it, but I'm not sure I'll remember it. I enjoyed the read while reading it, and the mystery was intricate and compelling. I appreciated the end of the book a lot. It was fine.

I had such high hopes for this book, especially given how wildly successful McAllister's first novel WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME was. But knowing my track record of opinions on authors selected for "Reese's Book Club," I knew enough to take that "honor" with a grain of salt. The story sounds compelling but this book was just... boring and went nowhere. There were glimmers of hope and I did find this novel to be inventive and unique, but unique does not necessarily make a novel a good one.

I didn't love the characters and found them mostly annoying, and I predicted the twist well in advance of the end of the book which took all the suspense out of a book that had the potential to be very suspenseful. I wanted to love this SO BAD but it just didn't work for me, as someone with entirely too high standards for thrillers. Probably wouldn't recommend this one and want to forget it.

After reading Wrong Place Wrong Time and loving it, I was hoping that this one would be just as good. Thankfully, it was.

This one can get a little tricky as it is told from multiple viewpoints. DCI Julia Day is the lead character. She is organized and dedicated to her work and goes above and beyond to make things go the right way. The beginning of the book tells about an event that makes you see her in a different light.

Emma is a mother as well, and she's not sure about her adult son's secretive manner, the lies she captures him in and his behavior. Has he done something bad?

And the third view that of Lewis, a father desperate to find his missing daughter. She's been gone for almost a year. Is there any hope?

You do have to pay attention because the viewpoints can get a little confusing. But, it was a pageturner and one I would recommend.

Gillian McAllister doesn’t miss!!! DCI Julia Day is investigating the disappearance of a young woman. Just as the investigation is getting started, Julia gets a visit from a stranger giving her instructions that she is reluctant to follow. He doesn't threaten her with a weapon - he threatens her with a secret that Julia does not want to get out. What follows is a story that makes you question everyone's motives and asks the question - how far will you go to keep your family safe? This is a police procedural, and there is a wild twist in the middle. There were also more twists at the end! If you are looking for a great thriller/mystery, pick this one up! I highly recommend it!

At first I wasn't completely sold on this book. It mostly just made me anxious, and I was a little confused. Once the different twists were revealed though, I was hooked. The characters were dynamic and fascinating, and seeing them interact with each other was fun to read. I really wasn't expecting the different surprises throughout the book, but not in a way that they seemed unrealistic. It's a book that I would maybe want to re-read to see if I can see any of the twists coming (and I almost never re-read books). Thank you to NetGalley and William Morrow for this ARC!

I'm going to preface this by saying that I usually hate reading detective novels. I don't know why, but normally the detective point of view just irritates me.

That is not true of this novel, mostly because I feel that Olivia is so broken that she makes an excellent MC despite the fact that she's a detective. In fact, she breaks so many rules that it seems like the only reason the author gave her this job is that she would have access to things that a normal person wouldn't.

The thing I loved most about this book is that Olivia gets herself so ridiculously entangled into this situation that I couldn't put the book down because I could not figure out how she would manage to get herself out of the situation.

As as I began to unfold what really happened, I was utterly flabbergasted. The end? SO GOOD.

I really wanted to like this book but it was a struggle. I found it really difficult to like and follow the plot to this story , I will only say that about half way through it does get interesting.

4.5 stars
I am a big fan of Gillian McAllister's books. This one did not disappoint either. Julia is a detective under immense stress. Her daughter had something terrible happen to her. Julia has a difficult job searching for missing people .Her most recent case is the one that threatens to push her right over the edge. Olivia is missing, but it seems impossible to solve. She is on CCTV going into a dead end alley...and never emerges. As Julia investigates this case, she is presented with a soul crushing ethical situation. At first, I was frustrated with Julia's choices. But then I asked myself, what wouldn't you do for your daughter? I thank Netgalley for allowing me to read this as an ARC. I highly recommend it!

First of all thank you so much to William Morrow for the ARC of this one! I had really loved Wrong Place, Wrong Time and I was super excited to read this one. The intrigue and mystery was pretty interesting and I did like how the twist was explained. But I think there could an would have been earlier resolves to the mystery. This was definitely a fast paced read.