RS Recommends: 'If I Disappear' Is a New Thriller for True Crime Fanatics RS Recommends: 'If I Disappear' Is a New Thriller for True Crime Fanatics Eliza Jane Brazier's novel throws into sharp relief how desensitized we can become when we treat real life like a game Brenna Ehrlich, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The hunter becomes the hunted in Eliza Jane Brazier’s upcoming thriller, If I Disappear, out today via Berkley Publishing. A skillful dissection of true-crime podcast culture and those obsessed with it, this new novel has more twists and fakeouts than an episode of Serial. If I Disappear follows a woman named Sera who is transfixed by true crime podcaster, Rachel Bard, and the concept of women disappearing — a common trope of the genre that speaks to who society cares about. Beautiful white women with tons of family ties? The cops are on it. A drifter loner with no family? Not so much.