The Missing Hours: A Novel

Written by Julia Dahl

Narrated by Taylor Meskimen

From the critically acclaimed author of Invisible City and Conviction, The Missing Hours is a novel about obsession, privilege, and the explosive consequences of one violent act.

From a distance, Claudia Castro has it all: a famous family, a trust fund, thousands of Instagram followers, and a spot in NYU’s freshman class. But look closer, and things are messier: her parents are separating, she’s just been humiliated by a sleazy documentary, and her sister is about to have a baby with a man she barely knows.

Claudia starts the school year resolved to find a path toward something positive, maybe even meaningful – and then one drunken night everything changes. Reeling, her memory hazy, Claudia cuts herself off from her family, seeking solace in a new friendship. But when the rest of school comes back from spring break, Claudia is missing.

Suddenly, the whole city is trying to piece together the hours of that terrible night.

A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Audio
• Release date: Sep 14, 2021
• ISBN: 9781250241030

Julia Dahl

Julia Dahl is the author of Conviction, Run You Down, and Invisible City, which was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, one of the Boston Globe’s Best Books of 2014, and has been translated into eight languages. A former reporter for CBS News and the New York Post, she now teaches journalism at NYU.

Reviews for The Missing Hours

[B4iwascrzy · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I HATED the narrator's errors - they damage the artificial "bubble" that readers need to be able to access to leave the stress of reality behind. I am beginning to think that these major multimillion dollar publishing houses dont want to spend extra coins by having an editor LISTEN to the ENTIRE AUDIOBOOK BEFORE IT IS RELEASED TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. As a professional (30+ years) tech writer / editor, I would be fired (come on if you don't know that Mores (as in societies mores is NOT PRONOUNCED like "more" as in "give me more hotdogs" then LOOK THE WORD UP) if I put out something GR with these sophmoric errors. "Ear RAPTure" I guess I didnt realize this was a joke book.

Story would be a 4.