Full review at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books 
 There's been a trend in mystery fiction lately of deliciously twisty psychological thrillers featuring women in roles that mysteries don't usually afford them. I've talked about it before, The Gone Girl effect, and how these thrillers that set up a traditional mystery scenario. A woman (usually respectable and middle class) is missing or dead. We presume she is the victim. Then the author takes all our usual assumptions shakes them up in a Yatzee cup, hits us in the face with them, and then tosses them out the window. 
 Sometimes the women in these books are a victim; sometimes they're the killer. Sometimes they're both. But they are always nuanced, complicated characters who refuse to be reduced to a pretty face on a reward poster. They can be cunning, manipulative, evil, mentally ill or just plain badass. They are never reliable as narrators. 
 This is a trend I am 1000% here for and All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda is a wonderful addition to this new subgenre insuspense fiction. 
 I can't tell you much more about the plot because I'd be giving too much away. The premise above is enough to make me grab for the book, but All the Missing Girls is so, so much more. 
 For one thing, the author employs an interesting strategy of telling the story backwards. We start with day 14 after Annaliese goes missing, the next chapter is day 13, etc. So the crisis point of the book is actually the day of the disappearance. As the narrative unfolds the reader understands that something cataclysmic happened the day Annaliese vanished, but we don't know what. We're left to weave in loose ends-off the cuff remarks from other characters, suspicions, gossip, and Nic's actions which make little sense. Nic is sleep deprived, not eating, struggling to navigate in a community where she's under everyone's watchful eye. As she tells us the story of the past, of the day Corinne vanished, we also start uncovering snippets of the present day mystery. 
 At first I wasn't sure the "telling the story backwards" thing made a ton of sense, but then as the mystery unraveled I realized how beautifully it worked. When I finished the book I was left with an OMG moment where everything fell into place perfectly. 
 If you like mysteries or thrillers or suspenseful books-you'll love this book. Skip the library. Buy it now. I told your credit card it's okay. If you're intrigued but easily creeped out, I think it's still okay. There's no gore here and it's not a BOO! I jumped out of the closet and scared you mystery, it's more of a "I don't know who to trust here" mystery. There are no real scary parts, just ah-ha! and OMG parts. 
 All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda is a standout debut thriller and example of female crime writing that I want more of, goddamnit. 
 - Elyse