Missing

by Alice Marks

Rhonda Collins MD is a popular physician at a Corpus Christi family clinic. One day she leaves on her lunch break and never returns.
The media learns about the missing woman and everyone in the city is caught up in the mystery of what happened to a beautiful doctor. Pressed by the media, the head of the South Corpus Christi Police Department reluctantly appoints two detectives, veteran Sgt. Stan Belkin and newbie, Maria Gonzales, to the case. The two begin an uneasy relationship, which sometimes becomes warlike.
The husband of Linda, Rhonda’s best friend, carries a secret. Linda wonders if she ever really knew her best friend. Is it possible she or her husband had anything to do with Rhonda’s disappearance?

255 pages, Paperback

First published October 4, 2015

Reviews

[Sue]

Interesting, convoluted story line. Led to lively discussions with other readers, each of us interpreting the main character and the ending very differently.

[Devorah Fox]

What happened to Rhonda? What's Sandra running from, and will she overcome the obstacles and make her escape? What secret is Dr. Linda's husband hiding? Even more interesting to me was the fate of Maria Gonzales. Would the young officer, abruptly pressed into service on a case that looks like a career-killer, solve the mystery and gain the respect of her partner, a veteran detective? I had great fun following the story's interwoven threads all the way to the end. A huge fan of Alice Marks's shorter works, I was delighted to have an entire novel of hers to read, and hope that there will be others.