If You Were Here, (Paperback)

from grumpydan

Former prosecutor turned journalist, McKenna Jordan watches an amateur video of a woman saving a teenager from an oncoming subway train and thinks it's an old friend who disappeared ten years earlier without a trace. Thinking this would make a good story, she begins to investigate it. But what tu...

from Twink

Alafair Burke is the author of two wonderful series featuring recurring characters Samantha Kincaid, a lawyer and Detective Ellie Hatcher. In her latest book If You Were Here (a stand alone) she brings us another great protagonist - and another fantastic book for some hot summer reading. McKenna ...

from mikedraper

Journalist McKenna Wright sees footage of a woman rescuing a teenager who had fallen onto the train tracks. McKenna recognizes the woman as an old friend and former classmate of McKenna's husband at West Point. The woman had disappeared nearly ten years ago. Thinking that this might be a good sto...

from gpangel

My rating: 4 of 5 stars If you were here by Alafair Burke is a HarperCollins publication. This was a June 2013 release. I received a copy of this book from the publishers and Edelweiss. Nicky has been stealing cell phones from New Yorkers until one day in the subways he stole from the wrong lady....

from brendajanefrank

It is so nice to read a mystery/thriller that is not a series. This is more challenging for the author in that the entire persona of the lead character, journalist McKenna Wright, must be developed in the space of one novel. However, it's a treat for me to not have to deal with the character's hi...