Rena Sutherland wakes from a coma into a mother’s nightmare. Her daughter is missing – lost for four days – but no one has noticed; no one has complained; no one has been searching.
As the victim support officer assigned to her case, Christine Emmett puts aside her own problems as she tries to guide Rena through the maelstrom of her daughter’s disappearance.
A task made harder by an ex-husband … harder by an ex-husband desperate for control; a paedophile on early-release in the community; and a psychic who knows more than seems possible.
And intertwined throughout, the stories of six women; six daughters lost.
I thought that not knowing was the worst thing I could ever endure. Not knowing if she was in trouble or needing my help or in pain. I worried that she’d been taken by someone that would hurt her, then I worried that she’d been taken by someone who would love her and care for her and in a year or two she’d have forgotten I ever existed. Not knowing was killing me.
The police found her body stuffed into an old recycling bin out the back of a sleep-out. My beautiful girl had been bent to fit as though she was just a piece of rubbish, something to be disposed of.
When I went to the hospital to identify my beautiful girl’s broken body – that was worse than not knowing. When I buried her in the cemetery and compared the size of the gravesite to the other freshly buried bodies – that was worse than not knowing. When I drank myself to sleep on the anniversary of her sixth birthday, and realised that I would likely be doing that until my life ended – that was worse than not knowing.
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I got lost in this book. It starts out a little slow and confusing, but it gets better. It’s a sad read, and it was heavy, I don’t recommend it for sensitive parent types.
I read about a third of the book and stopped. I couldn’t connect with any of the characters, the storyline is choppy.
Good read
Was a good read – kept me wondering until the end …
Great read
Another on my best of 2017 list.
I enjoyed the story line. It was a surprise ending which I like that it was not predictable.
Love a great twist in a story, this one fit that bill!
Didn’t finish, didn’t hold my interest.
This book was easy to sink into. You felt like you were experiencing the trauma of the characters in the book. You wanted to have the resolution for them.
It was an interesting concept.
I’m about half way through this book and I keep losing the story line. It’s a struggle.
A tragic story about loss and not knowing what happened to your loved ones. It starts out with a women’s support group where everyone’s daughters have either been murdered or they have disappeared. As the story moves along a shocking discovery is revealed. It’s a tale of child sexual abuse and murder. It was hard to put down. Many of the …
excellent
good.
Too much going on–it was hard to figure out with constant switching from character to character.
Good read
Let bed this book. Very sad
The story kept my interest although some of it seems improbable, but the writing was very good.
Liked the book but it was so sad