Mysterious Ruby Love, also known as the Countess Rivers, has been convicted for a murder she cannot remember. As she writes in her cell, she is carried away on a journey into memory in a fugue of voices, and hallucinations of music. Ancient Greek philosophy and numerology that Bach played with in his musical puzzle canons, weave the background to this fugue mystery.

As Ruby tries to remember what happened, Missing tells the same story as The Antipode Room in a faster-paced thriller form, without references to psychogenic fugue from medical books and journals and cultural texts discussed in the excerpts in The Antipode Room. First published by PostMistress Press imprint in 2015 (ebook-mobi kindle); 2016 (paperback) and 2017 (series edition). This edition is published with minor revisions.

Missing is the abridged edition of The Antipode Room without the non-fiction medical and cultural excerpts and without illustrations.

Reviews:

Forget Houellebecq, I like Skilbeck. This is of course in relation to the French author. I had read all his books, and the new one Submission came to us about the same time as Ruth Skilbeck's Missing. I was compelled to read Missing. It is female-centric for one. I did love many of Houellebecq's books but when I started reading Skilbeck's Missing and then his new one, I could not read his - Karen Kennedy, author of Deeply Felt, Reflections on Religion and Violence within the Anarchist Turn

Really enjoyed it. I liked the way the characters develop, and the pace of the writing. I find the psychology exciting and in many instances I revisit something that I experienced myself. The dear kinky boffin! The snorting gallery owner! The end chapter with [Skilbeck's] observation on Velázquez is fabulous- Natasha Williams, artist

ISBN: 9780992277956 paperback. Revised edition.

Date of first publication in paperback: 31 December 2015