Twenty-two year old Olivia is missing and seasoned detective Julia knows how this will go down. Until it doesn’t and the journey comes too close to home. 

Gillian McAllister creates much suspense. I had to know what happened and read this novel over a few days. McAllister brings real life, relationships, morality, and motherhood to the pages - all topics I can’t get enough of. This was surprising and tense. I liked it and recommend it.  

Here are 4 of the 42 passages I highlighted:

“…not quite enough to kill her passion for this: solving things, piecing them together, helping people, and inching ever closer to that most elusive of things: the truth.”

“ABC: Assume nothing, Believe nothing, Challenge everything. One of the most important rules of being a detective.”

“That’s the thing when you feel something emotionally. When you notice body language. When you know it, but you can’t prove.”

“This is what people don’t tell you about having a child: so quickly, so fast you almost miss it, they become a full, sentient, adult being. And this is when they need the most help, need the sacrifices.”