A companion post spotlighting Booth's Writers Read entry, alongside the publisher's description of Then He Was Gone.

Booth shares what's on her nightstand for two neighborhood book clubs: Chris Whitaker's All the Colors of the Dark and Virginia Evans's The Correspondent.

A companion post highlighting Booth's Author Interviews Q&A, on how Then He Was Gone got its title and what her teenage self would think of it.

Booth talks through her title, her first lines, and the real-life moments — including a volunteer encounter she's never forgotten — that made their way into the novel.

Cathy calls Then He Was Gone an absorbing, skillfully crafted thriller, praising its handling of a family's unraveling secrets as they search for their missing son.

Crooked Lane Books acquires Isabel Booth's debut thriller after editor Marcia Markland discovers the manuscript on The Black List — the first novel deal to come out of the platform's fiction program.

A 20-questions feature on the writing-class assignment that became the seed of Then He Was Gone, plus what Booth is working on next.

Booth talks influences, her writing process, and the childhood moment she decided she wanted to be a writer.

Booth and her editor Marcia Markland trace the path of Then He Was Gone from manuscript to acquisition in this podcast conversation.

Isabel Booth shares a family recipe and the story behind it — a phone call in her early teens, copying down her aunt's spaghetti sauce by ear.

Marilyn Brooks reviews the multi-voice structure of Isabel Booth's debut, and the fault lines it exposes in a marriage under pressure.

Reviewer Judith D Collins gives Then He Was Gone 4 out of 5 stars, praising the courtroom-level precision Isabel Booth brings to a missing-child thriller.