
Title:- Loving Mothers
Author:- Miranda Smith
Date published:- 3rd October 2024
No. of pages:- 316 pages
Genre:- Psychological Thriller
Rating:-
Plot:- 5/5
Writing:- 5/5
Overall rating:- 5/5

Our whole neighborhood is desperately searching for sixteen-year-old my own daughter’s best friend. But I know my daughter is lying about the night Shelby disappeared. And a mother will do anything to protect her child…
Hickory Hills is the perfect place to raise a family. Everyone knows everyone. Sometimes, that’s a bad thing.
The morning after the Halloween party, the word spreads from house to house, each resident gasping at the news, each mother holding their child tighter. Shelby has gone missing.
My daughter should be distraught, but she’s claiming they weren’t even friends anymore. When I go to talk to her, I hear her giggling on the phone with Shelby’s boyfriend.
And then I find her Halloween costume, stuffed into a bag in her closet, covered in blood.
I will do anything to protect my daughter. I will turn this community upside down. I will blame someone else’s child if I have to.
After all, I have secrets of my own…
A totally gripping psychological suspense about the dark secrets that lie behind perfect families, and how far mothers will go for their children. If you love Claire Douglas, Ruth Ware or Karin Slaughter, Loving Mothers will have you glued to the pages till the final jaw-dropping twist.

After a Halloween party, a teenage girl named Shelby has gone missing. There are two main suspects–Hudson, who is Stella’s son and who seemed to have a history with the old school and Grace, who is Mary’s daughter who fought with Shelby on the day she disappeared. Mary would do anything to protect her daughter and Stella would do anything to protect her son, even though she suspected that he might be behind Shelby’s disappearance. When Shelby’s body was found, immediately Hudson was suspected as he and Shelby used to date together.
This was actually an interesting and a fast paced thriller that will keep you on the edge till you reach the end. Both Stella and Mary are determined to protect their children at any cost even though they both suspected that their children might have something to do with Shelby’s disappearance. The story is told in the POV’s of Stella, Mary and the other mothers Naomi and Donna who is Shelby’s mother. The story is a bit emotional when you read Stella’s part as she suffered from domestic abuse from her ex-husband. The twist at the end was completely unexpected . I have read this author’s books many times and this book is one of her best psychological thrillers I have read. If you are looking for an unputdownable thriller, then this book is for you–worth five stars.
Many thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for the ARC. The review is based on my honest opinion only. Many thanks to Bookoute formaking me a part of the blog tour.


Miranda Smith writes psychological and domestic suspense. She is drawn to stories about ordinary people in extraordinary situations. Before completing her first novel, she worked as a newspaper staff writer and a secondary English teacher. She lives in East Tennessee with her husband and three young children.
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