Unmissing

I’ll admit, I rolled my eyes at first. *Another* missing wife? But *Unmissing* hooked me within 20 minutes—not with action, but with the eerie normalcy of Merritt and Luca’s life post-trauma. Kent’s real talent is making the *aftermath* of a crisis more terrifying than the crisis itself. The way Merritt fixates on Luca’s coffee habits or the way he loads the dishwasher becomes a slow-motion car crash of suspicion. I found myself rewinding scenes just to catch the subtext in Robins’ delivery—her voice cracks at all the right moments, selling Merritt’s paranoia without overdoing it. That said, the middle act drags slightly. Kent leans *hard* into domestic minutiae, and while it’s effective, there were moments I wished for a sharper edit—especially in the audiobook, where pacing is everything. Oppenheimer’s performance as the detective is stellar, though her cadence occasionally clashes with Robins’ more naturalistic style. The production is clean, but the lack of distinct audio cues between timeline shifts (a missed opportunity) forced me to pay closer attention than I’d like. Still, the finale? Worth every second. It’s the kind of ending that’ll have you staring at your spouse’s phone *just in case*. Not perfect, but *damn* effective.