That's what matters to Steiner - character. When Edith disappears from her Huntingdon apartment (glass, blood, coat left behind), her father, Sir Ian, physician to royals and windbag to all, makes a good deal of noise, so much that Manon is summoned from hard-won rest to the scene of the crime. The author even has her victim Edith Hind writing a dissertation on the fight against patriarchy in Victorian literature. Manon and Miriam, in different social classes, professions and locations, might seem to have little in common, but it's Steiner's reporting experience that pulls their lives together and shows how women lose in a malecentric society.īut, but, Steiner says - men lose, too. The other belongs to Miriam Hind, mother of the title's missing graduate student, Edith. One perspective belongs to Detective Sergeant Manon Bradshaw of the Cambridgeshire Major Incident Team, who is staring middle age in the face without having found a partner, a family, or contentment. Steiner's contribution to what might be called 'cozy noir' involves a dual lens. You might come to Missing, Presumed for the police procedural you'll stay for the layered, authentic characters that Steiner brings to life. If you've binge-watched Happy Valley, The Fall or Prime Suspect, have I got a book for you: Former journalist Susie Steiner's Missing, Presumed offers a close view of diverse British characters coming to terms with both a murder and their own imperfect lives. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Missing, Presumed Author Susie Steiner

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