The Missing Half

By Ashley Flowers

Book Overview

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Two women haunted by their sisters' unsolved disappearances band together in this captivating mystery from the author of All Good People Here and host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie.

"A propulsive mystery with excellent writing . . . Simply a great read "--Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl

Nicole "Nic" Monroe is in a rut. At twenty-four, she lives alone in a dinky apartment in her hometown of Mishawaka, Indiana, she's just gotten a DWI, and she works the same dead-end job she's been working since high school, a job she only has because her boss is a family friend and feels sorry for her. Everyone has felt sorry for her for the last seven years--since the day her older sister, Kasey, vanished without a trace.

On the night Kasey went missing, her car was found over a hundred miles from home. The driver's door was open and her purse was untouched in the seat next to it. The only real clue in her disappearance was Jules Connor, another young woman from the same area who disappeared in the same way, two weeks earlier. But with so little for the police to go on, both cases eventually went cold.

Nic wants nothing more than to move on from her sister's disappearance and the state it's left her in. But then one day, Jules's sister, Jenna Connor, walks into Nic's life and offers her something she hasn't felt in a long time: hope. What follows is a gripping tale of two sisters who will do anything to find their missing halves, even if it means destroying everything they've ever known.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593726987
• ISBN13: 9780593726983
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Bantam
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Dark search leads to dark answers

It would be horrible to have your sister go missing, no body found, and no closure to the case. I can understand how easy it would be to kind of self destruct the way Nic has since Kasey disappeared seven years ago. You get that balance with Jenna, whose sister also went missing with no answers a few days before Casey because she won't give up. I also like how Jenna lost her little sister and Nic lost her older sister so they naturally fall into those roles again with each other. And boy do they need each other to delve into the secrets people have kept all those years, or even just points of view that had been disregarded by the police. It does get dangerous in the search, with threats and broken ties with those thought to be good friends. Lots of twists, heartbreak over choices made and not shared between sisters like what usually happened between Nic and Casey. This book really does a number on what people would do for their sisters and whether blood is thicker than water in the case of Nic and Jenna finding out the dark truth about their sisters. I truly was blown away by that ending and it really had me thinking about all that and whether it was best to dig deep and find the truth for that cost. It was a fast paced suspenseful story that made it hard to put down. I do feel like the poem mentioned a few times really sums up the book. Two branches of the same tree, Two pieces of a soul. Where one sister goes, the other will be For she is but half of the whole. No matter the cost, Nic could not be without her sister in the end, even at the destruction of everything.