Floyd‘s family has a precocious daughter, Poppy, who looks like Ellie and a sister that is quite different. Though some give-away clues are revealed early on, you’re still taken on a journey that will most definitely pull your heart in many directions. It's been ten years since her daughter disappeared, seven years since her marriage ended, and only months since the last clue in Ellie's case was unearthed. I wasn’t satisfied with the ending as there were still storylines that weren’t completely tied up and explained. Laurel, Ellie's mother, is struggling to get her life back on track and save her relationships with her two remaining children.

The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs.

Besides the suspense — the characters hearts are tender - I felt what they did — none were offensive. The more time Laurel spends with Poppy, the more confused she becomes about her personality, her outlook on life, and how Laurel sees her dead daughter in Poppy. Lisa Jewell is the internationally bestselling author of sixteen novels, including the New York Times bestseller Then She Was Gone, as well as I Found You, The Girls in the Garden, and The House We Grew Up In. It is hard to read the despair and feelings of inadequacies that the family members encounter and at one point it was a little hard for me to continue. Brooks is a pro at building suspense even if it plays out in some rather spectacularly yucky episodes, one involving a short spear that takes its name from “the sucking sound of pulling it out of the dead man’s heart and lungs.

For me this one was a little difficult to read because the behavior of this probable psychopath was just so twisted and ugly. Ellie, a conscientious teenager, and the apple of her mother's eye, left to visit the library and was never seen or heard from again.Or maybe I’m just jaundiced by the idea of a perfect man showing up at the table next to an older divorced woman. In the wake of Ellie's disappearance ten years ago, her mother and father have split and the family has been torn apart by losing its "golden child".