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Until, that is, Kat stumbles on his profile on a dating site that her private eye mate Stacey (Jessica Plummer) has urged her to join. She’s torn – she still loves Josh – but eventually she “matches” with him on the app. And all is not, of course, what it seems.
Meanwhile, there’s a gruesome subplot involving prolific actor Steve Pemberton (you might remember him as an MI6 agent in Killing Eve) as a psychopathic dog breeder (seriously) abducting people in order to drain their bank accounts. When a young man comes to Kat to report his mum missing, things grow ever messier and intertwined.
All the while Kat is still determined to find out what really happened to her dad – was he really murdered by local underworld figure Monte Leburne (Marc Warren), who’s now dying in prison? Is Kat’s boss, Detective Stagger (Coben favourite Richard Armitage), holding back some information? And what are her friends hiding from her?
Chock-full of implausible but fun revelations – and a cameo from James Nesbitt as a charming crime boss – Missing You has all the Coben hallmarks, a great cast, and, unusually, something of a heartwarming ending.
Despite the pall of suspicion hanging over just about everyone, the regulation plot twists and the sadistic subplot, this a Coben crime caper with a love story at its centre.
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