![]() ![]() At the start of this novel, Manon is a Detective Sargeant with the Cambridgeshire Police. ‘Missing, Presumed’ is the first of three novels about her. That the story is told from multiple points of view by people with very different backgrounds, motivations and circumstances enriched the novel for me.Ĭentre-stage is Manon Bradshaw. The plot is interesting but it’s mainly there to provide a framework for looking at the lives of the people touched by the investigation. ![]() It’s a longer, more arduous process and there are some surprises along the way. ![]() This isn’t one of those ticking-clock police dramas where everything has to be solved in seventy-two hours. As the police work to find her or, at least, find out what happened to her, her personal life comes under scrutiny and her friends and her parents receive unwanted media attention. The fact that her parents are friends of the Home Secretary make her a high profile missing person. The circumstances of her disappearance mean she’s classed as a high-risk missing person. From a plot point of view, ‘Missing, Presumed’ follows an investigation into the sudden disappearance of a Cambridge post-grad student. ![]()
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