The Missing

by Chris Mooney

Book Overview

A razor-sharp thriller from the Edgar Award-nominated author who "blurs the lines between dreams and nightmares" (Abilene Reporter-News, TX). Darby McCormack was in high school when she first... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743463803
• ISBN13: 9780743463805
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Great read!!

Good read with unexpected twists & turns & ending. Will read more in this series!

Lots of twists and turns!

I absolutely love this book! You will not be disappointed with this purchase. Embrace all the twists and turns awaiting you as you read. I wish there was more and more to it, I couldn’t get enough.

unrelenting suspense

i couldn't put the book down and i read it in only a few days and it gave me nightmares!!! the author does a great job with the main character of darby mckormick and a sadisitc serial killer named traveler who has been crossing the country for years and being trailed by the fbit oh my god it was cool. i am definitely going to be reading this author in the future

Excellent Thriller!

The Missing had me hooked from start to finish! The storyline, of the police & FBI searching for a serial killer, who had been abducting women for years, never flagged, or got monotonous, at any stage in the book. This is not always the case with books of this genre. It did not get too bogged down in technical detail, either. The pace is quite relentless, with something incident/discovery cropping up, at the end of almost every chapter, making you want to read on further. I felt the characters were quite believeable, also, from the police to the nasty serial killer. This book was one of the best thrillers that I have read in a while, and I would defintely recommend it.

Intense...

This book was excellent. It has great characters, great setting, and a great plot. It was creepy and intense. I would compare this book to a mixture of Thomas Harris and John Sandford, which is a compliment to Mooney. I devoured this book in two sittings, it was that good. I will be reading more of Chris Mooney in the future. A+ for The Missing.

A Really Tense Thriller

The author was born and raised in Lynn, Massachusetts and attended college at the University of new Hampshire and in his own words "tried to study, of all things computer science" and was less than successful at it. He quickly switched his major to English with the emphasis on creative writing. He now lives just outside Boston with his wife and son and is at work on his second novel in the Darby McCormick series. It is always nice to find a new author and Chris Mooney is certainly new to me and although I am an avid reader of virtually anything, thrillers are not the first thing that I would pull off the book shelf. What a pleasant surprise, the book is well written, well structured and the characters are not only well rounded, but believable. In a book of this type it is always a temptation for the author to include as much gratuitous sex, violence, blood, you name it, they include it, as possible. But this novel strikes a good balance and is all the more scary and thrilling because of that. When CSI Darby McCormick finds an emaciated woman, clearly not in her right mind hiding at the scene of a violent kidnap, she runs a DNA test to identify the woman. The resulting test confirms that the woman was the victim of an abduction that occurred over five years ago. She has somehow managed to escape from the clutches of the person or persons who have kept her caged up. With a teenage girl also missing and the woman seriously ill Darby find herself with a plate full of trouble and little time to find where the raving woman has been incarcerated before someone else fall victim. When the FBI butt in on the case it some becomes clear that a serial killer has been on the prowl for years and they are certainly not going to stop now . . .

Mooney Fan

Once again Chris Mooney has not disappointed me. Each book gets better and better. He has a gift for writing thrillers. Am already looking forward to the next book.