Missing Persons
Psychologist Alan Gregory’s friend and fellow therapist Hannah Grant has died suddenly and mysteriously. The police are baffled, leaving another unsolved homicide in Boulder, Colorado. Only Alan can decipher Hannah’s clues—a quest that will take him to Las Vegas and lead him to question the integrity of those closest to him.\ But while Alan tracks a missing patient of Hannah’s, the answers to both cases may be locked inside the mind of a client he has been treating for schizoid personality...
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Psychologist Alan Gregory finds his own colleague dead, while one of her patients-a young girl-has gone missing from Boulder on Christmas Day. With the police baffled, the answers to both cases may be locked inside the mind of a deeply disturbed client Alan has been treating. Running a maze of dilemmas, Alan takes a bold risk that will cost him his career-or his life. REVIEW; White's best. (Denver Post)Library JournalTruth and fiction blur a bit in White's latest novel featuring psychologist Alan Gregory when 14-year-old Mallory Miller goes missing from her Boulder, CO, home on Christmas, eight years to the day after a six-year-old girl (JonBenet Ramsey, unnamed here) was kidnapped from the same neighborhood. Soon others go missing, revealing connections to Mallory and her family, including possibly the untimely death of Hannah Grant, a colleague and close friend of Alan's partner, Diane. Doctor-client privilege is a staple in this series, but it has never proven more complicated than here. Rest assured, Alan's integrity remains intact, his wife's MS is no worse, daughter Grace is developing delightfully, and detective Sam Purdy is divorced and slimmed down. With an emphasis on mental illness, this installment is sadder and a little less suspenseful than others in the series, but the pleasure is in seeing these well-developed characters in action again. That alone makes this essential. [See Prepub, LJ 11/1/04.]-Michele Leber, Arlington, VA Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
\ From Barnes & NobleThe Barnes & Noble Review\ New York Times–bestselling author Stephen White offers readers fascinating glimpses into the human psyche, blended with real-world details and heart-stopping suspense. In Missing Persons, the peril begins with a simple phone call. Alan Gregory and Diane Estevez call fellow mental health professional Hannah Grant, and Hannah doesn't call them back. That might not sound very alarming. Lots of people don't answer phone messages promptly, especially when they're at work. But for an obsessive-compulsive like Hannah, not responding to a phone call is beyond unlikely -- it's downright impossible! Discovering Hannah's dead body on the floor of a colleague's office is almost a relief. Death is an excuse that could not be denied. The only remaining question seems to be whether this tragic event was a misadventure…or murder.\ \ With Hannah's death still a mystery, the city of Boulder, Colorado, reels under another blow. The night before Christmas a girl disappears, leaving behind a trail of blood and even more unanswered questions. The one that haunts everyone involved in this investigation is the possible link to the still-unsolved disappearance of another girl eight years before -- a six-year-old who would now be the same age as the young teen who vanished on Christmas Eve. To Diane and Alan's surprise, it seems that Hannah's client records -- as well as Alan's -- may hold some of the answers; but issues of confidentiality limit access to facts that could prove vital, as the ranks of Missing Persons swell. Sue Stone\ \ \ \ \ Library JournalTruth and fiction blur a bit in White's latest novel featuring psychologist Alan Gregory when 14-year-old Mallory Miller goes missing from her Boulder, CO, home on Christmas, eight years to the day after a six-year-old girl (JonBenet Ramsey, unnamed here) was kidnapped from the same neighborhood. Soon others go missing, revealing connections to Mallory and her family, including possibly the untimely death of Hannah Grant, a colleague and close friend of Alan's partner, Diane. Doctor-client privilege is a staple in this series, but it has never proven more complicated than here. Rest assured, Alan's integrity remains intact, his wife's MS is no worse, daughter Grace is developing delightfully, and detective Sam Purdy is divorced and slimmed down. With an emphasis on mental illness, this installment is sadder and a little less suspenseful than others in the series, but the pleasure is in seeing these well-developed characters in action again. That alone makes this essential. [See Prepub, LJ 11/1/04.]-Michele Leber, Arlington, VA Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.\ \ \ Kirkus ReviewsEight years after the unsolved real-life killing of a preteen beauty queen from Boulder, Colorado, psychologist Alan Gregory (Blinded, 2003, etc.) has to deal with the disappearance of one of her classmates. Mallory Miller, 14, vanishes on Christmas Day without any indication of foul play or any footprints in the snow surrounding her family's house. It's just a week after the death of Hannah Grant, the therapist Mallory took it upon herself to consult after her parents split up over a psychosis that drove her mother to attend weddings she hadn't been invited to. What was Hannah doing in her psychiatrist neighbor Mary Black's office? Why had she left her purse in the middle of her own office floor? And why was her blouse pulled up to bare her midriff and tucked neatly into her bra? These are hard questions, and White provides plenty of time to mull them during a remarkably slow opening movement. Alan is devastated by his discovery of Hannah's corpse and even more disturbed by a series of hints from Bob Brandt, a long-term schizoid patient, that he knows something about Mallory's fate. Strapped as usual by the need to keep his patients' confidences, Alan needs all the help he can get. But his friend Diane Estevez, a social worker who goes searching for Mallory's delusion mother in wedding-rich Las Vegas, disappears. So does Bob Brandt, driving off in his vintage Camaro after leaving behind a long typescript he asks Alan not to read. With the exasperated help of Detective Sam Purdy and Diane's determined husband Raoul, Alan will eventually get to the bottom of all those disappearances. Be warned: The solution is just as complicated as the multiple riddles. A fictional echo of JonBenet Ramsey(constantly invoked but never named) buried beneath reams of ethical quiddities, criminal cross-purposes, and mind-boggling coincidences. Author tour. Agency: Janklow & Nesbit\ \
