![]() ![]() ![]() Manon scrambles out of bed after another disappointing one-night stand (he talks about newts and splits the bill to the last penny), and rushes to the scene when she hears about a missing female in Huntingdon. Missing, Presumed, Steiner’s second novel after the more literary Homecoming, is told from differing perspectives, all jigsawing together to make a whole. ![]() Whether it’s her police protagonist, DS Manon Bradshaw, a single 39-year-old who listens to her police radio to help drown out the loneliness while she goes to sleep, or the story’s victim, 24-year-old Edith Hind, an earnest Cambridge postgrad whose PhD is on the fight against the patriarchy in Victorian literature, she breathes life into them all. S usie Steiner has a real knack, sometimes missing in police procedurals, for shading in the throwaway details about a character that turn them from two-dimensional into three. ![]()
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