My review: 4⭐
The prologue grabbed me right in.
The story is told in multiple pov’s and goes back and forth between now and before and each chapter is dated, so you’d think it would be easy to follow along, but at times it wasn’t so you really need to pay attention. We have a couple of chapters told by others that really intertwines each character into the story bringing about secrets that everyone has.
But I’d say it’s mainly told by Charlie, Dee and Elise.
Charlie is always around town chatting with everyone, probably trying to get away from his nightmare of a wife, Pauline. He goes missing after the music festival that many didn’t want in their small town.
Dee is the invisible house cleaner for many homes in the town trying to make ends meet while her husband, Liam, is having trouble finding work. She sees and hears quite a bit, but she’s not one to gossip and get involved, well not really.
Elise is out on medical leave due to breast cancer, but getting ancy to get back to work. She starts looking into the disappearance of Charlie on the sly with neighbor, Ronnie, and they slowly uncover more of who Charlie really is. When the lead detective has to step down Elise is back to work and officially on the case with partner, Caro.
I thought the police did a great job investigating and I enjoyed Ronnie ‘Sherlock’ as a side character.
This is my 4th book with this author and I enjoy her work. There’s plenty on scheming and secrets in this suspenseful mystery. Although I had some inklings along the way, I was happy with how it all played out in the end.
*Thanks to Berkley Publishing Group, Fiona Barton and NetGalley for the ARC. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*
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Save on Local Gone Missing at Booksamillion.com.Book blurb: Release date ~ June 14, 2022
Elise King is a successful and ambitious detective – or she was, before medical leave left her unsure if she’d ever return to work. She now spends most days watching the growing tensions in her small seaside town of Ebbing: the weekenders in their fancy clothes, renovating old bungalows into luxury homes, and the locals resentful of the changes.
Elise can only guess what really happens behind closed doors. But Dee Eastwood, her cleaner, often knows. She’s an invisible presence in many of the houses in town but she sees and hears everything.
The conflicts in town boil over when a newcomer wants to put Ebbing on the map with a giant music festival, and a teenage girl ends up dead because of drugs. When a man also disappears the first night of the festival, Elise is drawn back into her detective work and starts digging for answers. Ebbing is a small town, but it’s full of myriad secrets and hidden connections that run deeper and darker than Elise could have ever imagined.
