Manon Bradshaw is a thirty-nine-year-old, single
detective with the Cambridgeshire police force in England. She is very good at her job but not so great
at the whole personal life/relationship thing.
She has distanced herself from her father due to his controlling new
wife and lost touch with her only sister after a fight over said
step-mother.
After
several disastrous internet dating attempts, she is tempted to give up all together
on the idea and soothes herself to sleep by listening to her police radio. This is when she hears the call for a missing
person’s report and possible crime scene.
Missing is
Edith Hind, an attractive twenty-something Cambridge student and daughter of a
rather prominent family with ties to the Royal Family. Edith’s live-in boyfriend comes home from a
weekend away to find their door wide open and blood on the floor.
Investigation
begins immediately and as it does many secrets are revealed not only about
Edith but about those around her as well.
Edith may have had a double life and some of her associates have alibis
that cannot be completely substantiated.
Manon must figure out those missing pieces and as fast as possible in
the hopes that Edith is still alive somewhere.
Manon
Bradshaw is a lonely, sad but very real character that I enjoyed greatly. She is smart, witty and very good at her
job. She is afraid to feel for others
but cannot seem to help it at the same time…I think we have all felt this way
at one point in our lives. I dare you
not to fall for and root for this woman!
This story
is very cleverly written and the characters are all unique yet relatable. The chapters’ perspectives jump around giving
you different points of views of the story from Manon, Edith’s mother Miriam,
Manon’s partner Davy and a few more so that you get to see the story unfold
from nearly every perspective. This
keeps things even interesting and fresh but doesn’t bog the story down like you
would expect.
I think
that this book would be a great first book in a series although there doesn’t
seem to be any mention of Manon’s story going any further. If you enjoy a good British mystery or any
type of mystery with a great female detective you need to read Missing,
Presumed.
4.5/5 stars
Author’s sites: www.susiesteiner.co.uk/
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