Thank you, but I am sorry to say that I was underwhelmed by this book and that it was just not for me.

I have had this sitting on my TBR for months now and have finally decided that I no longer have the urge to pick it up. Id like to thank the author and the publisher for allowing me to have a copy before release.

This was a good story, but didn't stand out amongs so many similar others in the genre.

I received a copy from Netgalley.

This will be short review because I read this some weeks back and to be perfectly honest I remember very little about the book other than I really didn’t like it much. The mystery itself of what happened to the two missing girls so many years apart under the circumstances was interesting enough that I actually did finish the novel.

From what I remember about the plot the main character is coming home to help her brother with the sale of their family home after their father has moved into a nursing home. The first girl who went missing some ten years ago when the MC was a teen was her best friend at the time. Sometime after she’s arrived a second woman goes missing, this woman had always been on the fridge of the MC’s group of friends when they were growing up. The first missing girl, the best friend, was outgoing, lively, popular and a colossal bitch who knew how to push everyone’s buttons. The police investigation was limited as it’s a small town and she’s an 18 year old girl with a reputation. Possible she just said to hell with everyone and ran off. But her legacy is still present in the town as a few of the friends of the MC and the girl are still living there. The second woman who went missing has a faint connection to the first girl and to the MC. There’s connections there, and the MC finds herself digging into what happened to the second one, bringing up memories of the first girl and figuring out the connection between the two disappearances. And managing to ruffle some local feathers while doing so of those who would rather just forget about the first girl. Getting herself reacquainted with old friends and people she’d put in the past as well.

The actual writing itself wasn’t bad at all, nice and descriptive, the area and the setting were easy to picture. Unfortunately, I can’t think of anything about the characters that really stood out. In fact I can’t even remember their names. I certainly didn’t like any of them. The biggest problem I had with the novel was that the method of storytelling was immensely confusing, told in a backwards fashion, counting backwards in chapters. Which I didn’t get at all. To be fair the actual reveal of what happened was fairly surprising, I didn’t guess at all before-hand.

While I do like mysteries, this one just didn’t work for me at all. Thank you to Netgalley and Corvus, Atlantic Books for approving my request to view the title.

What do you do if your daddy dearest remembers a crime being committed? Do you run to the police? Or do you wait until he remembers meeting the Queen in his 20's. Because your daddy dearest has dementia and can not be trusted. Or can he.
Book was well written and worth your time and effort. Do it - you know you want to!

While the premise of this book was very promising and the structure is well laid out, the twist could have probably been better executed. The characters are flawed which make them entirely realistic but the story itself had far too many holes in it unfortunately. A bit disappointed but a good read nonetheless.

Ten years ago, Nicolette 'Nic' Farrell's best friend, Corinne, disappeared. Then Nic did a disappearing act of her own, leaving her small home town behind for the city and university.
Now Nic receives a letter from her father who has dementia, claiming that he saw Corinne the night she vanished.
Nic returns home and a few days later another girl goes missing.
Can the police find Annaleise?
What happened to Corinne all those years ago?

All the Missing Girls is told backwards from Annaleise's disappearance from Day 15 to Day 1. I thought this was a refreshing and unique way to tell a story. There is also a mixture of the past and the present, both of which I enjoyed reading but probably more so the sections about the past.
Nic was an okay protagonist but I didn't have any strong feelings about her or any of the other characters, except maybe Corinne who seemed horrible.
The plot was interesting and I didn't guess what had happened to Corinne or what would come of Annaleise.
I liked the writing style and found it easy to follow.

Overall this was an enjoyable, unique read.

WOW! This book was utterly brilliant. I literally could not put this book down! I'm not one for reading books more than once but I'm definitely going to read this again! Highly recommended read

10 years ago Corinne went missing. Nicolette has moved away and changed her life however she is back to try and sort things out about her father who is bordering on senility. The past is raked up and when another woman goes missing the suspicion starts amongst a group of once close friends.This is a well written book and gives a lot of background before the main part of the story takes place, however this is in a good way and enjoyable. We get to know Nicolette a little and understand where she is coming from. Her relationships with her brother, boyfriend and father are to the forefront. Time frames move and we are taken on a journey. This is a book that keeps the grey matter moving and alive, a book you have to think about. A descriptive, enjoyable read.I voluntarily chose to read this ARC and all opinions in this review are my own and completely unbiased

Well thought out thriller, told in an interesting way. I would recommend

Nicolette Farrell thought she had escaped her rural upbringing, and the secrets buried in her past, when she escaped from her small-town home and in to the big city. Her father's worsening dementia and the seeming resurfacing of the past soon bring her back, however. Reunited with a complicated brother and a childhood sweetheart it starts to feel like she never left, especially after the recent disappearance of a young girl, which bares a startling similarity to the disappearance of Nicolette's best friend, all those years ago...

I loved how gritty and twisting this narrative was. The reader never felt like they could approach any angle of this story on steady footing, as the basis of our understanding was ever shifting. With so many thrillers on the market, this constantly delivered something exciting and new for the reader to obsess over and sink into.

The non-chronological time-scale was part of the story as much as the events were, and was what dually distanced me from the story and yet what pulled me in and made me want to know more. My only problem with this is that it took me some time to realise that the time wasn't actually linear. I felt constantly confused and like I had missed some key information in the text. If I had realised that this was a narrative told backwards, this wouldn't have been the case, however. The ending was fast-paced and unguessable but, perhaps because of the shifting time-scale, I felt the events suddenly transgressed too quickly for me to fully comprehend.

I preferred the sections set in the past, as opposed to those set in the book's present, and would have favoured a larger portion of the book to dwell on the characters as they were in their youth. This, I believe would have garnered a greater understanding for the people they became, without having to spend an equally as long time viewing them as their future selves.

This is a unique and well-done thriller, which I did enjoy and did suck me into the tale. I didn't fully love all segments of this but it is a story I would recommend and am glad I have read.

“We were a town full of fear, searching for answers. But we were also a town full of liars.”

All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda is one of the best books I have read in awhile. It has twists and turns, mystery, suspense, and has a unique way of telling a story in reverse.

“The past, boxed up and stacked out of sight. But never too far away”

It starts out with Nicolette (Nic) Farrell receiving a call from Daniel, her brother, in regards to her father’s failing health and to help sell the family home. Nic agrees to help and returns to her hometown of Cooley Ridge, North Carolina, a very small town where everybody knows your name, and your past.

“But here's the thing I've learned about leaving- you can't really go back. I don't know what to do with Cooley Ridge anymore, and Cooley Ridge doesn't know what to do with me, either. The distance only increases with the years. Most times, if I tried to shift it back into focus...all I'd see was a caricature of it in my mind: a miniature town set up on entryway tables around the holidays, everything frozen in time.”

Ten years ago Nic’s best friend, Corinne, disappeared and that’s when everyone’s lives change. Nic left her hometown, family, and friends to start a new life for herself. But now that she has returned home to Cooley Ridge, her past comes back to haunt her. Another girl in town, Annaleise, goes missing - stirring up old memories and secrets from the past.

Nic needs to find out what happened 10 years ago to Corinne, and to see if Annaleise’s disappearance is connected. Will all this affect her future? We will see, as her father, brother, and her ex-boyfriend are all under suspicion. With Annaleise missing now, all the old rumors come back and Corinne’s cold case reopens.

“If there's a feeling to home, it's this. A place where there are no secrets, where nothing stays buried; not the past and not yourself. Where you can be all the versions of you, see it all reflected back at you as you walk the same stairs, the same halls, the same rooms. Feel the ghost of your mother as you sit at the kitchen table, hear the words of your father circling round and round after dinner, and your brother stopping by, wishing you'd be a little better, a little stronger.... It's four walls echoing back everything you've ever been and everything you've ever done, and it's the people who stay despite it all. Through it all. For it all.”

Telling this story in reverse made it more intriguing to me, and I have to say, Megan Miranda did an excellent job in doing so - it was flawless.

I highly recommend!

*I want to thank NetGalley, Katherine MacPherson, and Atlantic Books for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.*

I wasn't enthralled by this book. It was okay. Slow in places. Could be written better. What was meant to be a shock ending was a bit of a damp fizzle.

I stopped reading this book very early on as it did not grab my attention, so much so that when I put it down (which was very easy) I quickly forgot what I had read so had to re-read the last few pages.
Thanks anyway to NetGalley and Atlantic books for the chance to read it.

Book Description
It’s been ten years since Nicolette Farrell left her rural hometown after her best friend, Corinne, disappeared from Cooley Ridge without a trace. Back again to tie up loose ends and care for her ailing father, Nic is soon plunged into a shocking drama that reawakens Corinne’s case and breaks open old wounds long since stitched.

The decade-old investigation focused on Nic, her brother Daniel, boyfriend Tyler, and Corinne’s boyfriend Jackson. Since then, only Nic has left Cooley Ridge. Daniel and his wife, Laura, are expecting a baby; Jackson works at the town bar; and Tyler is dating Annaleise Carter, Nic’s younger neighbour and the group’s alibi the night Corinne disappeared. Then, within days of Nic’s return, Annaleise goes missing.

Told backwards—Day 15 to Day 1—from the time Annaleise goes missing, Nic works to unravel the truth about her younger neighbour’s disappearance, revealing shocking truths about her friends, her family, and what really happened to Corinne that night ten years ago.

My view
All the Missing Girls is a fantastic, mind boggling page turner which will keep you guessing until the end. I've never read a book which counts the days backward to understand the crime which has been committed but also incorporates the past into the storyline also.

Nic returns to her hometown of Cooley Ridge to assist with family matters, Nics father has Dementia and has been placed in a care facility, her brother Daniel has just about been coping but things take a turn for the worse and the family home has to be put on the market, the past catches up with all of them when Nic returns home. From the minute Nic returns to Cooley Ridge its apparent that things aren't as they were when she left, then Annaleise goes missing and it all shows the same resemblance of 10 years previously when another young girl goes missing. As we we turn back the last 15 days it becomes more and more intense to the point you think you have solved the mystery but another red herring is sent your way. Throwing you off track, the pace builds and all you want to do is find out who was it and why.

Megan has build up a picture of a very intense psychological thriller, loads of red herrings which intensifies the build of the storyline. A book I couldn't put down, enjoyed immensely and a fantastic plotline that I didn't think could be possible but Megan you pulled it off.
Look forward to Megans next release.

I admit I was drawn to this book by the cover. I'm not really sure it lived up to expectations.

Nic had left her her small town and made a life for herself. When she was a teenager, her best friend disappeared. The mystery still hangs over the small town. When her father seems to be failing and has moved into a care home she returns to help her brother clear there childhood home and persuade her father to sell. Memories of her friend's disappearance crowd in & when another local girl goes missing she becomes convinced there is some connection.

I found this book extremely confusing as the story was told from many different timelines so I found it hard to follow a continuous narrative. I would really like to give this a three & a half star score. I bumped it up to four because I did keep because I wanted to find out what happened. It does not feature in my list of 'must reads though.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me the chance to read and review this book.

I’m not one for mystery books because quite frankly I am awful at solving them. I would make the world’s worst gumshoe. However, recently I have been reading more and more of the genre and I have been enjoying the books I have read a lot…still with the poor detective skills.

All The Missing Girls by Megan Miranda was another one that foiled me. It is told retrospectively which besides being insanely clever was really quirky and interesting. It is also the sign of a great writer who can write backwards without revealing anything. My mind was officially blown.

The characters all held an elusive quality about them; author Megan Miranda did not let you get too close to them making everyone a suspect. I swear that every character had the finger of blame pointed at them by me on more than one occasion.

All the Missing Girls is a really good mystery thriller and is perfect for those, like me, that are reading out of their comfort zone.

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At the outset let me mention that I found the style of this book pretty difficult to get used to. The actual writing was good but the structure was different and initially difficult to get my mind around. This is because the story is told in reverse, or to put it another way, told backwards. So, you are introduced to the characters and to the basic story, and then the book jumps forward by two weeks to Day 15, and then each subsequent chapter is one day earlier. Thus, you read about the events of Day 15 before you read about what happened the previous day, being Day 14, and so on. To be honest though, I didn't mind this. It did mean that I needed to concentrate and, if truth be told, it did lead to a slightly jarring story, but I didn't ever feel lost or like I didn't know what was going on.

Because of the way the book is written, I would say that this book is best read as an actual book rather than an ebook, as it would have been nice to flip back sometimes to match up people and events. That is much more difficult to do on a Kindle and, in fact, I didn't even attempt it even though there were times when I felt that I wanted to. But having said that, the structure of the book was quite clever and by the end of the story, you knew exactly what had happened. I did, however, cast my mind back to the chapters I had read in an attempt to figure out the sequence and how it fitted together. I think that certain parts of the story and events did get a little bit "lost" in the strange sequence as one's brain isn't used to reading that way, but the story did come together as a whole by the end.

I found that I did really love this story. It was cleverly done, the characters were interesting, if not total odd balls and the story pulled together well. A comment on the strangeness of the characters - be warned, they were all absolutely weird. This did make the story interesting though, or at least, I thought so. Personally, I love odd characters. The main character Nic, turned out to be very strange indeed and Corinne and Annaleise, well they were just totally nuts. Tyler was unusual and Daniel behaved so strangely at times that I found it difficult to bond with him. But, the strange thing is that I actually liked most of the characters despite their flaws.

In conclusion, if the blurb appeals to you, give this one a try. It's a great read but you just need to be prepared for the different structure.

My rating: * * * *

Many thanks to author, Megan Miranda, publishers Atlantic Books and NetGalley for my copy.

I absolutely loved this book!

This story is about Nic who left her home town of Cooley Ridge ten years ago and has absolutely no desire to go back. She's managed to reinvent herself, obtained two degrees, has a great job that she loves, as well as a lovely fiancee. She's even managed to iron out her accent. But around the same time Nic left Cooley Ridge, her best friend Corrine went missing - and now her father says he's seen her on the porch of their old home. But her father is senile and in a care home - surely he's imagining it?

There are several reasons why I loved this book. Firstly, the characters are so well-drawn I felt I knew these people. They weren't entirely lovable, they all had very realistic flaws - for me, that was part of their appeal. Different aspects of their personalities were dripped into the story, a little at a time, so just when I thought I'd worked someone out, there was another twist to surprise me. And as I read an awful lot of crime fiction, it takes a lot to surprise me! Every character has a very plausible motive for wanting Corrine to disappear. I'd read one chapter and think 'Ha, he's the murderer!' and then in the next chapter I'd think it was someone else, and so on. I never did work it out!

The third reason I really enjoyed this books is that the story is told backwards. You have the beginning, where Nic receives the news about her father, and then the story skips to fifteen days later. The chapter after takes place fourteen days after Nic's arrival in Cooley Ridge, counting down to day one. It is a brilliantly clever way of telling the story; it hits the ground running and doesn't let up in tension until the very end. I did have to concentrate hard though! It's a bit like trying to do a jigsaw puzzle, have someone sweep all the pieces back in the box after an hour, and then having to start all over again!

I would definitely, definitely recommend this book to anyone who loves psychological suspense. With the claustrophobic setting and dysfunctional characters it reminded me of one of my favourite authors, Shirley Jackson. But, like Jackson, the author takes her time in letting the tension mount up and tighten into a stranglehold - which means that if you're the kind of person who devours fast-paced crime thrillers, you might find it a little slow - but I loved it!

Wow what a great psychological thriller, with lots of twists and turns to keep you on the edge of your seat. This is the first Megan Miranda book I have read, and it won't be the last, as I loved it so much. I've never read a book that is written backwards before, it made a nice change. I will be recommending this book to friends and family, I have written reviews on Amazon and Goodreads. My thanks to Atlantic Books and to Megan Miranda for the opportunity to read such a good book.