So I picked this up purely because i was mid house move and every other book i owned was packed away and it was actually a pleasant surprise. There seems to be a lot books around at the minute about parents losing a child either through kidnap/murder, this is one of them, but its good.
Lisa Dale is overworked, she has two children, a husband, her dad and brother have reputations, one day when she has five minutes in the park with daughter Ella, she shuts her eyes while they play hide and seek and when she opens them Ella has done more than just hide, she has vanished.
The book follows Lisa as she assumes the worst, as the case into her daughters disappearance leads to fingers being pointed at everybody she knows and as she slowly loses hope that Ella will ever be found.
The narrative also follows Ella's kidnapper, who believes Lisa to be an incompetent, useless mother who doesn't deserve Ella and she intends to keep Ella as long as it takes to expose Ella for the fraud she really is.
There's a lot of layers, a lot of twists and red herrings and Ella's kidnapper has a deeply complex personality. The book itself is a page-turner, it hooks you in, you want to know whether Ella will ever make it home.
4 stars, sharp, brilliant, well written with an excellent finishing twist.
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