Local Woman Missing: A Novel of Domestic Suspense
New York Times Bestseller
"Dark and twisty, with white-knuckle tension and jaw-dropping surprises." --Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of Home Before Dark
In this smart and chilling thriller, master of suspense Mary Kubica, author of Just the Nicest Couple, takes domestic secrets to a whole new level, showing that some people will stop at nothing to keep the truth buried.
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...
Don't miss Mary Kubica's twisty new thriller, Just the Nicest Couple!
Look for these other pulse-pounding thrillers by New York Times bestselling author Mary Kubica:
"Dark and twisty, with white-knuckle tension and jaw-dropping surprises." --Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of Home Before Dark
In this smart and chilling thriller, master of suspense Mary Kubica, author of Just the Nicest Couple, takes domestic secrets to a whole new level, showing that some people will stop at nothing to keep the truth buried.
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...
Don't miss Mary Kubica's twisty new thriller, Just the Nicest Couple!
Look for these other pulse-pounding thrillers by New York Times bestselling author Mary Kubica:
- The Good Girl
- Pretty Baby
- Don't You Cry
- Every Last Lie
- When the Lights Go Out
- The Other Mrs.
- Just the Nicest Couple
- She's Not Sorry
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Community Reviews
Overall, this was a pretty good thriller.
Things I was into:
(1) Pretty good pacing. Right away, in chapter one, I felt invested. I was equal parts annoyed and intrigued throughout.
(2) The Leo perspective had just the right amount of sibling love/resentment. It actually creeped me out a little. Good stuff.
(3) the sharp 180 of one character's demeanor. That really intensified things quickly.
Things I was less into:
(1) Timeline jumps between past and present. I get that this helps build tension and suspense, but can someone just write a straight timeline, please? I'm over this trend.
(2) Too many narrators. I think there were technically four. All of them written in first person. Sometimes I got confused about who was talking. Between that and the timeline jumps, my brain was getting scrambled. Again, I get why it was done. But it's not my favorite thing.
(3) Some of the red herring stuff made me literally yell at the book (like how people -- well, me -- yell at the TV) "Whaaaaaaaaaat is going oooooooooooooooooooon heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere?" <-- direct quote...
(4) Some of the writing was a bit over the top. Like bad 80s night time soap over the top.
There's a passage where someone slaps someone and what is said following the slap was just... cheesy and maybe not necessary... very Krystal-and-Alexis (am I aging myself by saying that?).
For me, this was way better than the other book I read by Mary Kubica (Don't You Cry), but I don't think I'm a fan of her writing style... It's not that it's bad. It's just not for me.
Like the title, a local woman is missing. A few days later, so does another woman along with her 6 year old daughter.
My goodness this was fabulous. I love multilayered plots where the answer is not linear, but more like a web. Things and people are connected, and you don't know what is relevant and what isn't.
It was a bit of a slow burn about 30-50% in, but apart from that it was a nonstop ride to the end that kept me guessing the whole time.
My goodness this was fabulous. I love multilayered plots where the answer is not linear, but more like a web. Things and people are connected, and you don't know what is relevant and what isn't.
It was a bit of a slow burn about 30-50% in, but apart from that it was a nonstop ride to the end that kept me guessing the whole time.
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This was a thriller for sure with some interesting characters, but much longer than it needed to be. Not a book I'd recommend.
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