Missing Monday

by Matthew J. Costello, Matthew Costello, Alex Brown

When Janna Wade wakes up on a Tuesday, she doesn't remember a thing from the day before. It's as if she wasn't there at all. Only one person knows what became of Janna's lost day--and from now on, her every waking hour will be a nightmare.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425194558
• ISBN13: 9780425194553
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 345 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

good book for any day of the week

I particularly enjoyed this book because one of the main characters lives in Park Slope not too far from where I live. Interesting style of the book in that the scenes shift very often with cliff-hangers left and right. It feels a lot like an XFiles show, and the quick scene shifting kept me thinking there was a commercial break coming. The book also is very sci-fi-ish and although I don't normally read sci-fi, this was a thriller and a mystery too. Eventually the connections of the various shifting scenes are brought together so we finally see what's going on, and the wondering kept my attention. I couldn't help thinking the author was writing with an eye to a Hollywood movie, or something to that effect. Or else he wrote it after watching a marathon run of X-Files? I stayed up all night reading it so it definitely has that page-turning quality, and it was well-written and suspenseful. Get out the popcorn for this one.

a page turner

Missing Monday was a GREAT book! I bought it because its premise, as implied by the title, really intrigued me: Janna Wade, the heroine, wakes up on a Tuesday, not remembering a thing from Monday. I was hooked by page ten. As I kept reading, the story didn't disappoint! Missing Monday is a book with fantastic twists and turns, that kept me on the edge of my seat until the very end. I can't wait to read Costello's other books, I think I've found a new favorite author!

dark gothic speculative fiction

When she went to sleep it was Sunday night and when she woke up it was Tuesday morning. Janna is scared that she is going crazy especially when she discovers that she did her usual work yesterday at the office. Her friend Kathy and her boyfriend David tell her she was her usual self once she confides in them. David and Kathy suggest she sees a psychiatrist to help her get past the trauma. She believes the psychiatrist is helping her until she overhears him and David talking about her, and the possibility of doing away with her.Alex Stern is a brilliant psychiatrist who was tortured for information that he has that his killers want. He commits suicide rather than letting them know the secrets of his group and he is able to send a message to his wife Caryn who luckily is listening on her cell phone. Caryn is part of a cell that is charged with a mission that neither the authorities nor the police can perform. When her path crosses with that of Janna, their cell has more information to carry out their mission.Readers who enjoy a dark gothic speculative fiction story will love MISSING MONDAY, a novel that deals with the future of Earth. From the very beginning of this novel, there is a feeling of foreboding that increases with each ensuing chapter. The audience will want to read Matthew Costello's latest work to find out who the true enemy is and hopefully there will be a sequel to this exciting tale.Harriet Klausner