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Have You Seen Me?

A Novel of Suspense

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2 of 2 copies available

From New York Times bestselling author Kate White comes a gripping novel about one woman's dangerous quest to recover lost memories someone would rather she never find.
The key to her missing memories could bring relief—or unlock her worst nightmares.

On a cold, rainy morning, finance journalist Ally Linden arrives soaked to the bone at her Manhattan office, only to find that she's forgotten her keycard. When her boss shows, he's shocked to see her—because, he explains, she hasn't worked there in five years.

Ally knows her name, but is having trouble coming up with much beyond that, though after a trip to the psychiatric ER, she begins to piece together important facts: she lives on the Upper West Side; she's now a freelance journalist; she's married to a terrific man named Hugh. More memories materialize and yet she still can't recall anything about the previous two days. Diagnosed as having experienced a dissociative state, she starts to wonder if it may have been triggered by something she saw. Could she have witnessed an accident—or worse—had something happened to her?

Desperate for answers, Ally tries to track where she spent the missing days, but every detail she unearths points to an explanation that's increasingly ominous, and it's clear someone wants to prevent her from learning where those forty-eight hours went. In order to uncover the truth, Ally must dig deep into the secrets of her past—and outsmart the person who seems determined to silence her.

Desperate to unearth answers, Ally focuses on figuring out where she spent the missing forty-eight hours. As ominous details of the two days pile up, so does the terrifying pressure: she must recover the time she lost before the time she has left runs out.

Featuring Kate White's signature twists and turns, Have You Seen Me? is a harrowing tale that will keep listeners guessing until its shocking ending.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      In this audiobook, listeners join finance journalist Ally Linden as she arrives at her Manhattan office, surprising herself and her former boss because she has not worked there for five years. It quickly becomes apparent that something is very wrong and that Ally has lost part of her memory and is experiencing a dissociative fugue state. Narrator Cynthia Farrell helps build the atmosphere with her accomplished characterization of Ally, highlighting both her strength and confusion as she tries to piece together what has happened to her. This suspenseful thriller is told from Ally's viewpoint in the present tense, and Farrell's spot-on pacing helps to ramp up the tension, keeping listeners on the edge of their seats to the end. K.J.P. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 24, 2020
      Ally Linden, the narrator of this well-honed thriller from bestseller White (the Bailey Weggins series), arrives one morning at her Manhattan office, wet and bedraggled, with a throbbing headache. Her boss approaches her and asks, “What are you doing here?... You haven’t worked here in years.” A stunned Ally realizes she has no idea where she’s been or where she lives, and that there’s “a thick, dark curtain between this moment and everything that came before it.” She’s diagnosed as being in a dissociative state, caused by a traumatic incident. The questions just keep on coming: what triggered the memory loss, is it connected to a troubling experience in her childhood, who can she really trust to tell her the truth, and why were a handful of blood-soaked tissues stuffed into the pocket of her raincoat? White skillfully maintains the pace until the rushed ending. Even the most jaded reader will be satisfied. Agent: Sandra Dijkstra, Sandra Dijkstra Literary.

    • Library Journal

      March 27, 2020

      This new stand-alone from the talented White ("Bailey Weggins" series) starts snappily enough: Ally Linden heads to work but realizes she doesn't have her key card. When she does get in, her boss tells her she hasn't worked there for five years. Then she faints. When she comes to in an ambulance, she's understandably confused. She begins to remember details of her life, but even after seeing her husband and accounting for the last five years, she still can't remember where she was or what she was doing for the past two days. The rest of this uneven suspense novel has Ally plumbing her memory and tracking down clues--including bloody tissues in her coat pocket--to find out what happened. Her best friend is out of town and her husband is strangely distant, though concerned. Worried that something terrible occurred while she was "out," Ally turns to her loving brother and her therapist, even a private investigator, for help. She also has the feeling she's being watched, but by whom? VERDICT White spends much time describing fancy apartments and houses, what characters are wearing, what they eat and drink, some of which her readers expect and enjoy, but in this outing it tends to slow down the narrative Still, White's ability to write realistic characters and twisty plots make this worthwhile. [See Prepub Alert, 9/30/19.]--Liz French, Library Journal

      Copyright 2020 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Kirkus

      February 15, 2020
      A woman suffers memory loss due to trauma; her search for truth may end up being the most dangerous decision of all. When Ally Linden arrives at work one morning, she's shocked to find out that she hasn't actually worked at this office for years. Somehow, she's suffered a dissociative episode, and while the memories of the past eventually come flooding back, she still cannot remember anything that happened over the previous two days. Alarmed, she seeks out her therapist, her friends, her husband, trying to put the pieces together. There's been tension in her marriage because her husband is pressuring her to have children, so when Ally finds out they had a fight the night before she "disappeared," the root of her memory loss seems clear. However, there are still too many loose ends: Why were there bloody tissues in the pocket of her coat? What happened to her cellphone? And could any of this be related to a murder investigation from her childhood? Not sure whom she can trust, Ally hires a private detective who then ends up murdered. One thing's for certain: Someone will go to any lengths to prevent Ally from recovering her memory. White (Such a Perfect Wife, 2019, etc.) provides the twists and shocks that any reader of domestic thrillers expects and savors, but she also manages to use some of our expectations to create clever dead ends. Ally's need for self-discovery has an immediacy, of course, but also a larger resonance, as she begins to realize that she hasn't always made choices that are completely authentic or independent. Perhaps recovering her memory will be the first step in a larger quest to find herself. An engaging novel that turns some clich�s of recent thrillers on their heads.

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    • Booklist

      March 1, 2020
      Business journalist Ally Linden arrives early at her Manhattan office, only to find that she hasn't worked there for five years. At first knowing only her name and age, she soon retrieves the memory of the rest of her life, except for the previous two days, during which she's been missing. She learns that she's been in a dissociative state, usually brought on by trauma, which can reoccur. Is it related to having found a toddler's body when Ally was only nine years old, or to something more recent, involving the wad of blood-encrusted tissues Ally finds in her coat pocket? Anxious to fill in her missing days, she ignores her therapist's advice to avoid stress, hiring a private detective to help her and searching for information about the still-unsolved case of the toddler's death. But these efforts come at a cost, as attempts are made on her life from more than one quarter, and her marriage is definitely off-kilter. From former Cosmo editor-in-chief White, author of the Bailey Weggins series, this gripping psychological suspense tale is hard to put down.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2020, American Library Association.)

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