If You Were Here

Bestselling author of The Ex,The Wife and The Better Sister

*The Girl She Was, available to pre-order now*



'Highly addictive' KARIN SLAUGHTER 'A major talent' HARLAN COBEN

Your past can change everything...



When McKenna Jordan, a magazine journalist investigating the story of a heroic and unidentified woman, finds the video footage, she thinks she recognizes her as Susan Hauptmann. But Susan disappeared without a trace ten years earlier, having just introduced McKenna to her future husband, Patrick.



In this sublimely plotted mystery about marriage, private security and journalistic scandal, McKenna's complex search for her missing friend forces her to unearth secrets that lie deep in all their pasts.



Alafair Burke's books include her Samantha Kincaid series, the standalone thriller Long Gone, and her highly acclaimed series starring NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher, the most recent of which, Never Tell, was a Kindle bestseller. A former Deputy District Attorney in Portland, Oregon, Alafair is now a Professor of Law at Hofstra Law School, where she teaches criminal law and procedure. If You Were Here marks her debut on the Faber list, and will be followed by a new Ellie Hatcher novel in 2015.