

An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient’s frightening past in this chilling thriller from theNew York Timesbestselling author of Local Woman Missingand Just the Nicest Couple.
Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom to a teenage daughter and working as a full time nurse. While on duty at the hospital one day, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, having jumped from a bridge and plunging over twenty feet to the train tracks below.
But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was Caitlin pushed and if so, by whom and why?
Meghan has always tried to stay emotionally detached from her patients, but this time, she mistakenly lets herself get too close until she’s deeply entangled in Caitlin’s and her family’s lives. Only when it’s too late, does she realize that she and her daughter could be the next victims.
An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient’s frightening past in this chilling thriller from theNew York Timesbestselling author of Local Woman Missingand Just the Nicest Couple.
Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom to a teenage daughter and working as a full time nurse. While on duty at the hospital one day, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, having jumped from a bridge and plunging over twenty feet to the train tracks below.
But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was Caitlin pushed and if so, by whom and why?
Meghan has always tried to stay emotionally detached from her patients, but this time, she mistakenly lets herself get too close until she’s deeply entangled in Caitlin’s and her family’s lives. Only when it’s too late, does she realize that she and her daughter could be the next victims.
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Domestic thrillers and psychological suspense novels built around intricate secrets, missing persons, and deceptive personal lives have made Local Woman Missing a prominent work in modern suspense fiction. Mary Kubica gained international recognition with her bestselling debut novel The Good Girl and has since written numerous standalone thrillers centered on high-stakes family tension and mysterious disappearances.
Born and raised in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, Mary Kubica attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and American Literature. Before establishing her career as a full-time author, she worked as a high school history teacher. After living in the city of Chicago for several years, she relocated to Plainfield, Illinois, where she resides with her husband and two children.
Following the success of The Good Girl, Kubica authored a consistent lineup of popular suspense novels, including Pretty Baby, Don't You Cry, Every Last Lie, When the Lights Go Out, The Other Mrs., Just the Nicest Couple, She's Not Sorry, and It's Not Her. Her works have achieved major commercial success, selling over five million copies worldwide and being translated into more than thirty languages.
Kubica's narrative style is defined by controlled pacing, psychological complexity, and suburban settings where hidden truths destabilize ordinary lives. Her plots often weave together multiple perspectives, unreliable narration, and intense domestic conflict to examine topics such as marriage, motherhood, trauma, and identity. Critical reviews have frequently commended her tight narrative control and engaging characterization.
3 books in catalog
Domestic thrillers and psychological suspense novels built around intricate secrets, missing persons, and deceptive personal lives have made Local Woman Missing a prominent work in modern suspense fiction. Mary Kubica gained international recognition with her bestselling debut novel The Good Girl and has since written numerous standalone thrillers centered on high-stakes family tension and mysterious disappearances.
Born and raised in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, Mary Kubica attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and American Literature. Before establishing her career as a full-time author, she worked as a high school history teacher. After living in the city of Chicago for several years, she relocated to Plainfield, Illinois, where she resides with her husband and two children.
Following the success of The Good Girl, Kubica authored a consistent lineup of popular suspense novels, including Pretty Baby, Don't You Cry, Every Last Lie, When the Lights Go Out, The Other Mrs., Just the Nicest Couple, She's Not Sorry, and It's Not Her. Her works have achieved major commercial success, selling over five million copies worldwide and being translated into more than thirty languages.
Kubica's narrative style is defined by controlled pacing, psychological complexity, and suburban settings where hidden truths destabilize ordinary lives. Her plots often weave together multiple perspectives, unreliable narration, and intense domestic conflict to examine topics such as marriage, motherhood, trauma, and identity. Critical reviews have frequently commended her tight narrative control and engaging characterization.