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Missing White Woman

by Kellye Garrett

Anthony Award for Best Novel · 2025 · Shortlist
Park Row Booksmystery-crimeISBN 9781335477989

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Anthony Award for Best Novel2025Shortlist

About This Book

A Black true-crime podcaster investigates the disappearance of a white woman while challenging the systemic racial disparities in media coverage of missing persons cases.

About the Author

Kellye Garrett is an American mystery author and former television writer known for her Hollywood Homicide series and the standalone thriller Like a Sister. She is one of the prominent voices in the diversification of mystery fiction, blending classic detective traditions with contemporary Black American perspectives. Garrett worked as a writer on the TV series Cold Case before turning to fiction. Read more →

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