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…