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3.0
Previously posted on The Young Girl Who Loved Books
To be honest, when I first inquired about this book, it was just because of the beautiful cover. After reading the description I was instantly hooked and read this book in less than two days. This book was wonderful. It was really well written, and an instant hit for me. This is also my first Ben Cheetham novel and it really was a great one. I will definitely read more from him.
The story starts out with a little girl going missing, due to her father's tendency to create enemies there are a bunch of different suspects. The town has been put through this ordeal before. Around forty or so years ago, this couple named Joanna and Elijah were murdered in their house. It was horrific and their daughter was left to pick up the pieces. This story is so engrossing from the very beginning. Surely this little girl and this murdered family have no connection, right?
Erin, the little girl who is missing, parents miss here terribly and are desperate to have her back in their arms. Like most parents, they are willing to do anything to find her. The question becomes is she really kidnapped or is she just lost. As every hour passes, the situation gets dire. Her parents are desperate. Secrets will be revealed, but will the town ever really recover.
This book is very heartbreaking and tragic. I must admit that I was completely blown away by the ending. It shocked me in ways that I wasn't expected. This book will devastate you and make you question everything. The story is dark but it is also very beautiful.
The sole issue for me was that this book is labeled as a crime fiction, and based on the storyline you would agree with that. There wasn't a lot of police action or really detective type perspective. This sort of ruined the "crime fiction" aspect of the book for me. There was no point of view from any sort of law enforcement.
Even with this small issue I really recommend this book.
To be honest, when I first inquired about this book, it was just because of the beautiful cover. After reading the description I was instantly hooked and read this book in less than two days. This book was wonderful. It was really well written, and an instant hit for me. This is also my first Ben Cheetham novel and it really was a great one. I will definitely read more from him.
The story starts out with a little girl going missing, due to her father's tendency to create enemies there are a bunch of different suspects. The town has been put through this ordeal before. Around forty or so years ago, this couple named Joanna and Elijah were murdered in their house. It was horrific and their daughter was left to pick up the pieces. This story is so engrossing from the very beginning. Surely this little girl and this murdered family have no connection, right?
Erin, the little girl who is missing, parents miss here terribly and are desperate to have her back in their arms. Like most parents, they are willing to do anything to find her. The question becomes is she really kidnapped or is she just lost. As every hour passes, the situation gets dire. Her parents are desperate. Secrets will be revealed, but will the town ever really recover.
This book is very heartbreaking and tragic. I must admit that I was completely blown away by the ending. It shocked me in ways that I wasn't expected. This book will devastate you and make you question everything. The story is dark but it is also very beautiful.
The sole issue for me was that this book is labeled as a crime fiction, and based on the storyline you would agree with that. There wasn't a lot of police action or really detective type perspective. This sort of ruined the "crime fiction" aspect of the book for me. There was no point of view from any sort of law enforcement.
Even with this small issue I really recommend this book.
thebookgirl's review
3.0
Previously posted on The Young Girl Who Loved Books
To be honest, when I first inquired about this book, it was just because of the beautiful cover. After reading the description I was instantly hooked and read this book in less than two days. This book was wonderful. It was really well written, and an instant hit for me. This is also my first Ben Cheetham novel and it really was a great one. I will definitely read more from him.
The story starts out with a little girl going missing, due to her father's tendency to create enemies there are a bunch of different suspects. The town has been put through this ordeal before. Around forty or so years ago, this couple named Joanna and Elijah were murdered in their house. It was horrific and their daughter was left to pick up the pieces. This story is so engrossing from the very beginning. Surely this little girl and this murdered family have no connection, right?
Erin, the little girl who is missing, parents miss here terribly and are desperate to have her back in their arms. Like most parents, they are willing to do anything to find her. The question becomes is she really kidnapped or is she just lost. As every hour passes, the situation gets dire. Her parents are desperate. Secrets will be revealed, but will the town ever really recover.
This book is very heartbreaking and tragic. I must admit that I was completely blown away by the ending. It shocked me in ways that I wasn't expected. This book will devastate you and make you question everything. The story is dark but it is also very beautiful.
The sole issue for me was that this book is labeled as a crime fiction, and based on the storyline you would agree with that. There wasn't a lot of police action or really detective type perspective. This sort of ruined the "crime fiction" aspect of the book for me. There was no point of view from any sort of law enforcement.
Even with this small issue I really recommend this book.
To be honest, when I first inquired about this book, it was just because of the beautiful cover. After reading the description I was instantly hooked and read this book in less than two days. This book was wonderful. It was really well written, and an instant hit for me. This is also my first Ben Cheetham novel and it really was a great one. I will definitely read more from him.
The story starts out with a little girl going missing, due to her father's tendency to create enemies there are a bunch of different suspects. The town has been put through this ordeal before. Around forty or so years ago, this couple named Joanna and Elijah were murdered in their house. It was horrific and their daughter was left to pick up the pieces. This story is so engrossing from the very beginning. Surely this little girl and this murdered family have no connection, right?
Erin, the little girl who is missing, parents miss here terribly and are desperate to have her back in their arms. Like most parents, they are willing to do anything to find her. The question becomes is she really kidnapped or is she just lost. As every hour passes, the situation gets dire. Her parents are desperate. Secrets will be revealed, but will the town ever really recover.
This book is very heartbreaking and tragic. I must admit that I was completely blown away by the ending. It shocked me in ways that I wasn't expected. This book will devastate you and make you question everything. The story is dark but it is also very beautiful.
The sole issue for me was that this book is labeled as a crime fiction, and based on the storyline you would agree with that. There wasn't a lot of police action or really detective type perspective. This sort of ruined the "crime fiction" aspect of the book for me. There was no point of view from any sort of law enforcement.
Even with this small issue I really recommend this book.
chymerra's review
4.0
Tom Jackson started off having a good day. He had won the approval of his village’s council to reopen an abandoned quarry near a historical site….over the objections of a group of eco-warriors and Druids that are objecting to them even reopening the quarry. Then he gets a phone call that is the beginning of the end. His 9-year-old daughter, Erin, has gone missing while on a walk in the woods with her mother, Amanda.
While the whole town starts a search party and the local police start an investigation, Jake, Erin’s older brother, decides to go into an abandoned house where two people were brutally murdered over 40 years ago. After being attacked by a rook, killing it and rescuing its babies, Jake is drawn into an awful confrontation with his mother and father. That sends him running back to the house and what he finds there is something that can unravel the world as he knows it.
Tom and Amanda, in the meanwhile, are having struggles of their own. When secrets come to light during the investigation, those secrets threaten to destroy their marriage and commitment to each other.
Seth is a young man (I didn’t catch his age) who happens to be in town the same time that Erin disappears. He has his own agenda and wants to right a wrong that happened over 40 years ago. But he is caught up in the search for Erin and his agenda is taking a back seat to the search and rescue.
Mary is the surviving daughter of the people who were brutally murdered over 40 years ago. Called “Crazy” Mary, she never talks, lives in a secluded bungalow with her cats and just acts weird. She knows who killed her parents but is rendered mute due to that trauma.
Everything is tied together in an explosive ending!!!
This book is very fast paced right from the get go. I mean, I scorched through 1/2 of the book within a day and the other half the next day. I absolutely had to find over everything I outlined above, the book had me that sucked into it.
I did figure out who killed the Ingham’s about halfway through the book but even though I figured it out, I was surprised at why that person did it and how this person would go to cover their tracks.
The multiple storylines in the book were wonderfully brought together at the end of the book. The ending was a bit of a shock….actually a huge shock. I wasn’t expecting what happened to happen.
While the whole town starts a search party and the local police start an investigation, Jake, Erin’s older brother, decides to go into an abandoned house where two people were brutally murdered over 40 years ago. After being attacked by a rook, killing it and rescuing its babies, Jake is drawn into an awful confrontation with his mother and father. That sends him running back to the house and what he finds there is something that can unravel the world as he knows it.
Tom and Amanda, in the meanwhile, are having struggles of their own. When secrets come to light during the investigation, those secrets threaten to destroy their marriage and commitment to each other.
Seth is a young man (I didn’t catch his age) who happens to be in town the same time that Erin disappears. He has his own agenda and wants to right a wrong that happened over 40 years ago. But he is caught up in the search for Erin and his agenda is taking a back seat to the search and rescue.
Mary is the surviving daughter of the people who were brutally murdered over 40 years ago. Called “Crazy” Mary, she never talks, lives in a secluded bungalow with her cats and just acts weird. She knows who killed her parents but is rendered mute due to that trauma.
Everything is tied together in an explosive ending!!!
This book is very fast paced right from the get go. I mean, I scorched through 1/2 of the book within a day and the other half the next day. I absolutely had to find over everything I outlined above, the book had me that sucked into it.
I did figure out who killed the Ingham’s about halfway through the book but even though I figured it out, I was surprised at why that person did it and how this person would go to cover their tracks.
The multiple storylines in the book were wonderfully brought together at the end of the book. The ending was a bit of a shock….actually a huge shock. I wasn’t expecting what happened to happen.
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