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Starred Review for Among The Missing!

Posted on: Thursday, May 19, 2011

 The USA Librarians' journal Booklist has given Among The Missing a starred review.  Here is the whole thing:

"This remarkable novel has an abundance of suspense at its core, put forth in beautiful prose that all but glows on the page.  The setup is a common fantasy: an unhappily married Englishwoman, vacationing in Scotland with her drone of a husband, is mistakenly declared dead when a bridge collapses.  She's carrying enough cash to go anywhere and be anyone she wants; it's her luck that the first person she meets is the widow of the man who died in her place.  The two women narrate alternate chapters, gradually learning each other's identity as one slips into madness, the other into despair.  The reader knows what the women do not, yet the author keeps a jittery tension going as the novel spins toward its violent, grand-scaled finale.  Like most thrillers with a literary bent, this one spends time with the thoughts and feelings of the characters.  In lesser hands, this can be stultifying, especially if the people aren't that interesting.  But these two women have fascinating inner lives, and Joss details them in vivid, propulsive language."

Among The Missing is published in the USA by Delacorte on 21 June 2011.  Order your copy here !