IN THE EVENT THAT YOU Were This is a thrilling book of suspense from Alafair Burke, the writer Dennis Lehane phone calls “one of the finest young crime writers working today.”

Manhattan journalist McKenna Jordan is chasing the story of an unidentified girl who heroically pulled a teenaged boy in the subway monitors. When she locates a video that captures area of the occurrence, she thinks she’s an edge on the competition scrambling to identify the secret heroine, but is certainly shocked to discover that the woman in the video bears a solid resemblance to Susan Hauptmann, a good friend who vanished without a trace a decade earlier.

What would have been a short-lived metro story sends McKenna on a dangerous seek out the missing woman-a search that may power her to unearth long-buried truths much closer to house…