Title:  Local Woman Missing
Author:  Mary Kubica
Genre:  Mystery/thriller
Rating:  DNF

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…

I read about 20% of this before giving up. The writing was solid, but the style just wasn’t for me. I found the switches between timelines and points-of-view to be clunky and confusing, and I just didn’t feel a connection to any of the characters.

Mary Kubica is a bestselling author. Local Woman Missing is her newest novel.

(Galley courtesy of Harlequin/Park Row in exchange for an honest review.)

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