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LOCAL WOMAN MISSING

 



SYNOPSIS

People don't just disappear without a trace…

Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents connected? After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold.

Now, eleven years later, Delilah shockingly returns. Everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they'll find…

Title: Local woman missing
Author: Mary Kubica
Publisher: Park Row
Publication date: May18, 2021


REVIEW

RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫

Prior to reading Local Woman Missing I had only read one book by Mary Kubica and it was slightly disappointing, so despite the glowing reviews I had seen of this one I came into it with no expectations at all. Was I wrong! It was superb!

Reading the synopsis you might think this is nothing new, just another missing girls story and, granted, it’s another missing girls story but a tremendously gripping one.

The disappearance of Shelby, Meredith and her daughter Delilah and the sudden reappearance of Delilah eleven years later is the starting point of this story which you won’t be able to stop reading until you find out what happened eleven years before.

When reading mysteries/suspense stories I can’t stop forming theories of what might be happening, but in this case I could not, for the sake of me, formulate any coherent theory almost until the end, and once I did the author still managed to surprise me with a last curveball I did not see coming.

Although the chapters in the past were my favorite, I found Leo’s chapters really interesting, showing through a teenage’s eyes how terribly devastating must be to go back to a life you don’t remember anything about and to a family of strangers.  I also felt for him cause he had to live all his life in the shadow of what happened to his sister with no one really caring about how he felt.

The audiobook was a great choice and all four narrators did an excellent job.

Even though you may think you have read this story a hundred times, give Local Woman Missing a chance and I assure you you won’t regret it.

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