Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica

“That’s not to say I didn’t think about you. I thought about you a lot when you were gone, though all I ever knew was the absence of you.”

Shelby Tebow, new mother, goes out for a late night run and never returns. Weeks later, in the same small town, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, go missing. Are the disappearances connected? Where are they? What happened? Then, eleven years later, Delilah returns.

I finished this book days ago and am I still processing. I really don’t want to reveal much in this review because it was best experienced blindly. We are given different timelines that alternate throughout the story. We have eleven years ago before Meredith and Delilah are missing, eleven years ago after they are missing and present day. We also read from multiple perspectives including Meredith, Delilah, Leo (Meredith’s young son) and Kate (the family’s neighbor). I struggled with the pages from Delilah’s POV…they were rough. What she lived through for eleven years…unfathomable. Leo’s POV was also heartbreaking. It felt like the adults in his life failed him. I wished so much happiness for that poor kid.

This was a nail-biter of a story in spite of the ending, which was too much of a wild ride for me compared to the rest of the story. I highly recommend this very suspenseful tale.

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