This intricately plotted, tensely paced story gives us two stories, balancing against each other. One is about Aimee, an actress on the verge of being famous. She's on her rise to stardom when she comes home one day to discover her husband missing. She's not worried at first because, after all, they had a big fight the previous night. However, when her credit card gets denied and she discovers her bank account has been emptied of $10,000, she immediately suspects her husband. And now, the police are questioning her as if she has something to do with his disappearance. She doesn't does she? At least, she doesn't remember doing anything to him . . .
Alternating with Aimee's story is the story of a little girl who wanders away from home, only to end up with strangers. And you know what they say about talking to strangers.
There is a sense of malevolence that permeates this book, which I found to make for an engrossing read. It was hard to put this book down! With the alternating stories, you're getting first-person accounts and it's hard to tell at first how the two are related --- until it becomes very clear. But there are still plenty of twists in this story, including a whopper that I didn't see coming at all (which was wonderful!).
Recommended for fans of suspenseful, psychological fiction who like Ruth Ware, B.,A. Paris.
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