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When I Disappear Book Cover When I Disappear
Amanda McKinney
Storm Publishing (January 24, 2025)

He spent twenty years in prison. She spent twenty years living a lie. At 2:00 a.m. Sylvia Stone awakens to a letter on her doorstep suggesting the handsome carpenter, Rhett Cohen, who was convicted of murdering her mother twenty years earlier, is innocent. The anonymous letters continue, each one revealing details only the true killer would know, making Sylvia question her testimony years ago. But as Rhett is released from prison, the fourth and final letter arrives with one chilling message: You’re next. Then Sylvia disappears. You may think you know how this story ends. Think again.

When I Disappear by Amanda McKinney is a page-turner with several surprises.

I assumed I knew exactly who was responsible for the murder, but McKinney threw in various angles and points-of-view that had me questioning my detective skills. She provided a few viable options for the identity of the true murder throughout the story, up to the very end. It took me quite a few chapters to piece together the other mysteries of the town, and how they did or did not connect to the mystery of Marjorie’s death.

From the premise of When I Disappear, we’re all but certain that someone besides Rhett killed Marjorie. Included in the premise, is that someone is harassing Marjorie’s daughter Sylvia, two decades later that “she’s next”. An unlikely alliance is formed between Rhett and Sylvia to discover who is sending threatening letters to her, and why they decided to draw attention to themselves when they clearly got away with a murder. 

There’s a lot of players to this story, each of them with their own secrets.

More than one crime is discovered in this book, and something that deserves attention is how easily a little misstep can place the wrong person behind bars. While it wasn’t the focus of the book, Rhett’s reentrance to society after twenty years in prison was quite thought provoking. 

I recommend When I Disappear to any reader looking for a bit of intrigue from multiple points-of-view. If you need more of this kind of thriller, Amanda McKinney has quite a backlist of other thrillers too!

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