Missingville

Welcome to Missingville, where the residents are dead, their bodies are missing, and the afterlife is a lot more complicated than anyone promised.

When Renata Foster trades a weekend of country club tennis and mimosas for a hike on the Appalachian Trail, she expects sore feet and maybe a few questionable life choices.

She does not expect to be strangled to death.

Renata wakes up in Missingville, a strange purgatory reserved for people whose bodies haven't been found. From there, she can still watch the living world unfold: her family's grief, the police investigation, and the man who killed her.

Then she starts falling for another soul. One who has done something unthinkable.

Darkly funny, strange, sharp, and deeply interested in the messy gray area between good people and bad behavior, Missingville explores grief, forgiveness, punishment, sexual fluidity, and what happens when morality isn't nearly as simple as we want it to be.

Perfect for readers who like their afterlife with a little existential crisis, a murder investigation, morally complicated characters, and a sense of humor.

Written by Missouri author Christine Kiefer.