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If You Were Here LP

by Alafair Burke

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A subway rescue reopens a decade-old disappearance

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A subway rescue reopens a decade-old disappearance

A Manhattan journalist’s search for the identity of a woman filmed rescuing a teenager from subway tracks takes an unexpected turn when the footage resembles a friend who vanished ten years earlier. McKenna Jordan’s reporting transforms a brief local story into an investigation tied to a long-unsolved personal loss. The novel brings together urban journalism, missing-person questions, and secrets that have remained buried within McKenna’s own circle, with the central mystery widening as she pursues the connection.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Suspense readers interested in missing-person investigations
  • Readers who enjoy journalist-led mysteries set in Manhattan
  • Fans of personal secrets intersecting with a public news story

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DisappearanceJournalismIdentityFriendshipBuried secrets

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Book overview

If You Were Here is a thrilling novel of suspense from Alafair Burke, the author Dennis Lehane calls "one of the finest young crime writers working today."

Manhattan journalist McKenna Jordan is chasing the story of an unidentified woman who heroically pulled a teenaged boy from the subway tracks. When she locates a video that captures part of the incident, she thinks she has an edge on the competition scrambling to identify the mystery heroine, but is shocked to discover that the woman in the video bears a strong resemblance to Susan Hauptmann, a close friend who disappeared without a trace a decade earlier.

What would have been a short-lived metro story sends McKenna on a dangerous search for the missing woman--a search that will force her to unearth long-buried truths much closer to home...

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