A young pickpocket is rescued from the tracks of a New York subway station seconds before an oncoming train's arrival, and a decade-old mystery is unlocked. When McKenna Jordan, a magazine journalist investigating the story of the heroic and unidentified woman, finds video footage of the incident, she thinks she recognizes her as Susan Hauptmann. But Susan, who introduced McKenna to her future husband, Patrick, disappeared without a trace years earlier. As the mystery of what happened to her friend gets ever more complicated, McKenna starts to unearth secrets that lie deep in all their pasts. A sublimely plotted suspense novel - and a devastating thriller about marriage, private security and journalistic scandal - If You Were Here further underlines Dennis Lehane's assertion that 'Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today.'
