In this ground-breaking work, seemingly happy wife, Amy Dunne, disappears with all signs pointing to her husband, Nick. It is impossible to write a piece about thrillers with missing women without giving a well-deserved nod to the novel that essentially re-created the psychological thriller genre. Below is a list of thrillers that play with these themes in different ways. And then there are those-the outliers-whose disappearance involves criminal activity. In fact, most missing person cases are the result of the person having walked away voluntarily. But when the stress is extreme enough, these thoughts can overtake us, and we act. Most of us have had these fleeting, impulsive thought-like chucking a cell phone out the window, or quitting a job-that provide relief from emotional stress. It was a thought about walking away, along this strange but oddly beautiful road, that seemed to lead to nowhere, but somewhere other than where I was. It was one of those moments where stress and emotion take over and your brain shoots off a crazy, fight-or-flight-induced thought that is quickly swept away by rational decision making. In fact, the story began with a real-life moment I had on a back road far from home. When I started writing my latest novel, Don’t Look for Me, I did not intend to go down this path.
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