Like the spellbinding psychological suspense in The Girl on the Train and Luckiest Girl Alive, Megan Miranda’s novel is a nail-biting, breathtaking story about the disappearances of two young women—a decade apart—told in reverse. It’s been ten years since Nicolette Farrell left her rural hometown after her best friend, Corinne, disappeared from Cooley Ridge without a trace. Back again to tie up loose ends and care for her ailing father, Nic is soon plunged into a shocking drama that reawakens Corinne’s case and breaks open old wounds long since stitched. The decade-old investigation focused on Nic, her brother Daniel, boyfriend Tyler, and Corinne’s boyfriend Jackson. Since then, only Nic has left Cooley Ridge. Daniel and his wife, Laura, are expecting a baby; Jackson works at the town bar; and Tyler is dating Annaleise Carter, Nic’s younger neighbor and the group’s alibi the night Corinne disappeared. Then, within days of Nic’s return, Annaleise goes missing. Told backwards—Day 15 to Day 1—from the time Annaleise goes missing, Nic works to unravel the truth about her younger neighbor’s disappearance, revealing shocking truths about her friends, her family, and what really happened to Corinne that night ten years ago. Like nothing you’ve ever read before, All the Missing Girls delivers in all the right ways. With twists and turns that lead down dark alleys and dead ends, you may think you’re walking a familiar path, but then Megan Miranda turns it all upside down and inside out and leaves us wondering just how far we would be willing to go to protect those we love.


梅根‧米蘭達的小說與《列車上的女孩》和《最幸運的女孩》一樣，鋪陳許多引人入勝的心理懸疑情節，劇情緊張刺激，讓人屏息以待，本書以倒敘的方式描述十年間兩位年輕女子的失蹤案件。十年前，妮珂萊特‧費羅離開偏遠的家鄉，而在那之前，她的摯友卡羅妮消失在庫里山脈裡杳無蹤跡。妮珂為了完成某件事情並照顧生病的父親再次回鄉，但她很快地陷入一場震驚的戲劇性事件，大家因此再度關注起卡羅妮的事情，昔日癒合的傷口又再次裂開。過去十年的調查重點都放在妮珂、哥哥丹尼爾、男友泰勒、和卡羅妮的男友傑克森身上。 自卡羅妮失蹤後，只有妮珂離開過庫里山脈。丹尼爾和妻子蘿拉的孩子快要出生了；傑克森在鎮上的酒吧工作；泰勒跟妮珂的年輕鄰居安娜蕾絲．卡特約會，安娜蕾絲作證，關於卡羅妮失蹤案，這群人都有不在場證明。然而，妮珂才回來沒幾天，安娜蕾絲竟然失蹤了。作者將安娜蕾絲失蹤起的第 1 天至第 15 天以倒敘手法鋪陳，妮珂努力想了解為何年輕鄰居離奇失蹤，因而揭露了她的朋友、家人、以及十年前那晚在卡羅妮身上發生的真相，事實將令人震驚。本書不同於你以往閱讀的作品，呈現手法精采紛陳，情節曲折跌宕，讓人摸不著頭緒，正當讀者覺得可以猜出接下來的劇情，作者梅根米蘭達卻往往有出人意料的安排，本書也讓讀者思考到底自己願意付出多大的代價，來保護所愛之人。


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