Long Gone: A Novel

"Long Gone" by Alafair Burke, published by Harper. After a layoff and months of struggling, Alice Humphrey finally lands her dream job managing a new art gallery in Manhattans trendy Meatpacking District. According to Drew Campbell, the well-suited corporate representative who hires her, the gallery is a passion project for its anonymous, wealthy, and eccentric owner. Drew assures Alice that the owner will be hands off, allowing her to run the gallery on her own. Her friends think it sounds too good to be true, but Alice sees a perfect opportunity to make a name for herself beyond the shadow of her famous father, an award-winning and controversial film maker. Everything is perfect until the morning Alice arrives at work to find the gallery gonethe space stripped bare as if it had never existedand Drew Campbells dead body on the floor. Overnight, Alices dream job has vanished, and she finds herself at the center of police attention with nothing to prove her innocence. The phone number Drew gave her links back to a disposable phone. The artist whose work she displayed doesnt seem to exist. And the dead man she claims is Drew has been identified as someone else. When police discover ties between the gallery and a missing girl, Alice knows shes been set up. Now she has to prove ita dangerous search for answers that will entangle her in a dark, high-tech criminal conspiracy and force her to unearth long-hidden secrets involving her own family secrets that could cost Alice her life. Book details: published 2011. Order now on BookShops.in with fast, reliable delivery across India.