by Stephen White
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Hannah Grant had volunteered to cover Alan Gregory's practice over the Christmas period, but when he and another colleague called at her office they discovered her body, the cause of death not clear. Then on Christmas Day itself a fourteen-year-old girl is reported missing - eight years to the day after another missing child had been discovered murdered - a girl who had she lived would have been fourteen. Then it emerges that the parents of the latest missing girl had been treated by Alan some years ago, and recently the girl herself had consulted Hannah. Could any of these tangential connections prove to be links to both deaths and the missing girl, or are they mere coincidences? And should Alan break the seal of patient/doctor confidentiality if the few strands of knowledge he has can throw light on any of these mysteries?
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 DULL, 2008-05-08
While I have enjoyed most of the books in this series thus far, this installment has me thinking that maybe the best of the Alan Gregory stories are found in books 1-12.
Once again Alan Gregory finds himself involved in a dangerous situation that is revolved around his psychology practice. Like Dr. Gregory says on page 80..."Karma does seem to deliver mayhem to my door with disturbing regularity." No kidding!
When I picked up this book after a long day, I didn't get that sense of urgency to get to the next sentence, paragraph, or page. Mostly, I read to get to the end of the chapter, so I could mark my place, and get a good nights sleep. The pages turned about as fast as they would if I were reading the DSM-IV code book cover to cover.
I can appreciate that Stephen White is himself a psychologist and he writes about what he knows. Up until now, I've found his work interesting and his stories fun, however this latest addition just didn't do it for me.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 Babbling and Boring !!!, 2008-03-24
I read Blinded by Stephen White and liked it. This book however left me wanting from page one!! The characters are uninteresting; and the author introduces new evidence and characters that are dull and have nothing to do with the story. The story itself is so Convoluted that I soon just started reading the dialog, hoping that it would `get better' or finally be worth reading. At the mid-way point I gave that up too!!! And just read the ending, something I have never done before. My advice would be to skip this book it's not worth your time or mine. The `mystery' is less exciting then a cracker jack box prize and makes less logical sense too!!!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Another One I Couldn't Put Down..., 2007-10-12
Stephen White continues to please with Missing Persons. It starts with a bang when Alan and Diane find a coworker's body in her office and doesn't let up. As the story progresses, more people disappear without a trace. When Diane goes missing in Las Vegas, it is her husband Raoul to the rescue. Maybe that is one reason I like these novels so much. The main character doesn't have to always be the hero. His supporting characters are multi dimensional with lives and feelings of their own.
Onto his next novel, Kill Me!
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Pretty Bad, 2007-05-10
Funny thing: my guilty pleasure is pop fiction stuff like Stephen White or Patterson or whoever the trendy pop writer is. I love a quick read, a non-thinker, a throw-disbelief-out-the-window experience.
But Missing Persons fails to reach even such banal reading expectations.
The first word that comes to mind is lazy. After having picked up Missing Persons, I'm almost embarrassed to admit that I have read many of White's other novels. That said, this is a weak one, and one that hobbles on an all-too-familiar crutch in a sad attempt to propel a story:
Jon Benet Ramsey.
Just freakin say it! Or type it! Do you have any idea how insulting it is to the reader to continually refer to such a commonly known historic episode and try to dance around it without saying it? Give me a break!
I'm going to write a novel based upon the murder of a former pro football player's wife and her supposed lover. The former baller husband is then going to flee in a dramatic slow-speed chase scene in a white Bronco. And it is going to take place in Los Angeles! What do you mean that you've heard all this before? My story parallels the OJ story! But it is a little bit different! It really is different! (Sheesh!)
I can't believe I'm doing this, but in all honestly, tonight I threw this book into the garbage bin, after reading only up to page 173 (paperback version). The continual and overt references to the JonBenet thing were so insipid that I couldn't stomach it anymore.
I read a lot. I read everything that I read from beginning to end. Not this time. What a joke. This is the perfect example of jumping the shark. If I ever buy another Stephen White novel, I'm the fool for it.
Disappointed for certain.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Solid Thriller, 2006-11-19
Another Dr. Alan Gregory mystery. Intersting plot twists. A growing pile of missing persons. What I enjoy most about Mr. White's novels are the psychiatric pathologies of his "clients" and this one has some good pathology. There is probably too much hand wringing about ethics for my blood but A GOOD, QUICK READ!!
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