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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Good read very interesting
Overall, this was a rather twisted version of six degrees of separation theory but fell flat in a few places. The book focuses more on the mental state of the moms of the missing kids, and not on the horrors of the child abductions, and culprit. So it wasn’t thriller paced, more hollow and going through the mindless nuances of life paced. There …
Good book, well written. Surprises and twists. The format used to describe the main characters gives an informative view of each one, and is almost a story itself. No cliff hangers but there is an incentive to read another of her books, and I will.
With so many characters to keep track of it made it a very busy read. At times I would go back to see who was who again. Otherwise I really enjoyed reading it.
This book was just OK; it had some bad language & was took place in England (different words/writing style). But it was a disjointed story with multiple characters popping in w/their storylines – unexpectedly. It was hard to follow & the ending was dissatisfying.
Excellent characterizations of the many ways mothers’ relate to their children. Explored the theme–a mother’s instinct and duty to physically protect her children and the types of guilt that occur in failure, linking it all together through a support group. The people were portrayed so bluntly it rang true and even had a twist at the end. Great …
Weird story. Ok read. Not always believable
Once started reading didn’t want to put down. Keeps you guessing.
Interesting book about moms living with the worst fear a parent could have.
I didn’t like it at all. Never finished reading the book.
I didn’t like this book. It jumped around too much. Too hard to. Follow.
This is the first book I have read by this author. Her story moved me to tears and to anger. The characters are well developed and relatable. The strong theme was well presented. I could not put the book down. I am looking forward to reading other books in this series.
Great storyline…kept me guessing through to the end. Just when you think you’ve been able to figure it out, there is another twist. Well written with memorable characters.
Great page turner. Quick read because you don’t want to put it down.
This book held my interest all the way thru, hard to put down.
It was alright
Odd ending
An unexpected and disappointing ending.
It was a bit twisted for me. I don’t care for books that contain brutal killing of children.
slow-paced and boring, Couldn’t get through and deleted it