As Rachel catches the same train every morning, passing a row of houses each day, she becomes acquainted with a couple from afar. “Jess and Jason” are the perfect couple, or so it seems. One morning on her routine train ride, Rachel sees something shocking happen to “Jess and Jason” and soon she has the opportunity to become a part of the lives of two people whom she has only watched from afar. What she discovers is so far from the picture-perfect life of “Jess and Jason” that she had formed in her imagination…

Read along as Rachel’s life is flipped upside down as she is thrust into an investigation into “Jess’s” disappearance. How much information and help can she provide to police when she is relying on a life she has only regarded on a train? And how will her life and her past become entwined with the true life of “Jess and Jason”?

Similarly to Paula Hawkin’s The Girl On The Train, an enthralling Netflix series to dive into is Blindspot. One day a mysterious Jane Doe covered in tattoos is discovered in a blue bag in the middle of New York City. The mysterious woman has no recollection of her past life, but when Jane Doe’s tattoos predict events, the FBI realizes she can be a helpful tool in uncovering and preventing crime. As the FBI and Jane Doe work to fight crime, will they uncover more than what they bargained for?

Want to be like Rachel and become involved in an investigation, but not directly? The Vanished is a weekly podcast hosted by Marissa Jones covering missing persons cases, old and new, with the loved ones of these individuals. Marissa covers the entirety of these cases with respect and dignity whilst also giving listeners the whole story.