The Missing Hour : the breakneck new race-against-time crime thriller from the Sunday Times bestseller

Author: Rutherford, Robert

Crime & mystery

Published on 4 December 2025 by Hodder & Stoughton (Hodder Paperback) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 432 pages
198 x 130 x 30 | 304g

***Winner of the Lindisfarne Prize for Crime Fiction***YOUR HUSBAND HAS BEEN ARRESTED.

Maggie's husband is suddenly arrested in the middle of the night, on suspicion of murder.

When Grant dies in custody, her world implodes.

EVERYONE BELIEVES HE IS GUILTY.

All the evidence points to Grant being a killer - including DNA at the scene.

But how can this be true when he was with Maggie all night?ONLY YOU CAN PROVE THEM WRONG.

Following a trail of deception, it's up to her to uncover the truth.

But Maggie has a secret too. Something she hasn't told anyone.

She was with her husband all night - apart from one missing hour...