Title:- Local Woman Missing
Author:- Mary Kubica
Date published:- May 18th 2021
No. of pages:- 378 pages
Genre:- Psychological Thriller
Rating:-
Plot:- 5/5
Writing:- 5/5
Overall rating:- 5/5
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, 11 years later, Delilah shockingly returns. Everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they’ll find….
In this smart and chilling thriller, master of suspense and New York Times best-selling author Mary Kubica takes domestic secrets to a whole new level, showing that some people will stop at nothing to keep the truth buried.
This book is really an unputdownable thriller!
First, Shelby Tebrow goes missing when she went jogging at night. Then a few days later, Meredith and her daughter Delilah goes missing. The news shocked the entire town when Shelby’s body was discovered and Meredith and Delilah’s bodies aren’t recovered.
Eleven years later, Delilah returns back and no one is prepared to find what happened after all these years…
The story is told from Kate’s, Meredith and present day Leo’s POV. All the POVs interconnect with each other. Kate and her wife Bea are helping Meredith’s husband Josh with the search of Meredith which I found interesting, Meredith her POV is based on the days before her disappearance and Leo’s who describe his new relationship with his sister Delilah. There were some questions, some twists and turns and you never know what the whole connection between these three main characters is. The ending is where it was the most unexpected ending and I was actually shocked at te ending. The whole story was brilliantly written and the author did a good job of drawing the reader into the story and making the reader feel like they are part of the story.
This is an engrossing and unputdownable thriller and I recommend this thriller to anyone who hasn’t read it yet–worth five stars in my opinion!
Mary Kubica is a New York Times bestselling author of suspense thrillers including The Good Girl, The Other Mrs., and Local Woman Missing. Her books have been translated into over thirty languages and have sold over two million copies worldwide. She’s been described as “a helluva storyteller” (Kirkus) and “a writer of vice-like control” (Chicago Tribune), and her novels have been praised as “hypnotic” (People) and “thrilling and illuminating” (L.A. Times). She lives outside of Chicago with her husband and children.
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