Today I’m joining the blog tour for Missing White Woman. My review is written with thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me on the tour and to the publisher for my copy of the book.

Blurb:

Beautiful. Blonde. Missing. Murdered.

It was supposed to be a romantic getaway to New York City. Breanna’s new boyfriend, Ty, took care of everything – the train tickets, the sightseeing itinerary, the four-story Jersey City rowhouse with the gorgeous view of the Manhattan skyline. 

But then Bree wakes up one morning and discovers recently missing dog-walker Janelle Beckett dead in the foyer. Ty is gone, vanished without a trace.

A Black woman alone in a strange city, Bree is stranded and out of her depth. There’s only one person she can turn to: her ex-best friend, a lawyer with whom she shares a very complicated past.

As the police and a social media mob close in, all looking for #Justice4Janelle, Bree realises that the only way she can stay out of jail is if she finds out what really happened that night.
 
But when people see only what they want to see, can she uncover the truth hiding in plain sight?

Review:

I’ve seen Missing White Woman on social media a lot over the last few weeks and I was very interested to see what it is about. The blurb drew me in straight away and I really wanted to know what had happened to Janelle Beckett. The story itself burns quite slowly, but the author is constantly turning the screw to keep me reading to find the answers.

Our protagonist is Breanna Wright and she’s the ideal first person narrator. I wanted to believe she was innocent, but I was never quite sure whether I could. As the novel progresses and we meet Breanna’s childhood friend Adore, it becomes clear that Breanna has a colourful past and it was interesting to explore this and see how it influenced the way she behaved throughout the novel.

There are several references to race, racism and inequality in Missing White Woman, not least in the title, and this gives the story an extra layer which is not always present in crime novels. I would have liked this to have been covered in more depth, as I feel that it is an important issue.

Throughout the novel, there are examples of posts and comments on social media accounts. This made it very relevant to today’s society and highlighted how influential social media can be in the discussion of current news stories.

I don’t want to write much about the ending of Missing White Woman in case of spoilers, but it’s worth waiting for!

Missing White Woman is available from Amazon.

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