Una Mannion’s debut novel is
A Crooked Tree.
Her new novel,
Tell Me What I Am, is due out in the US in August 2023.
At CrimeReads Mannion tagged
eight great books about missing persons. One title on the list:
Songs for the Missing by Stewart O’Nan
In the summer of 2005, 18-year-old Kim Larsen vanishes on her way to work. Her Chevette is found several days later in a nearby town. O’Nan resists generic expectations, side-lining the true-crime thriller 
elements to offer a compassionate portrait of a family afraid to give up in the face of tragedy. Narrated alternately by Kim’s mother, father and fifteen-year-old sister, O’Nan shows us a different kind of procedural: endless waiting, spending nights with the ‘missing’ on websites as her sister does, or taking pills to fall into unconsciousness like her mother. Perhaps the most devastating character is the father, desperately driving up and down highways distributing flyers, trying to keep his daughter in the public consciousness.
Read about
another entry on the list.
The Page 69 Test: Songs for the Missing.
--Marshal Zeringue
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