The tense parts were incredible. and the only reason this has any stars.

The rest..¿
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throughout the book, it was so in-your-face the author is a white woman with some heavy internalized misogyny and racism, cause it was written in a way that was aware without having any awareness.

the beginning was littered with internalized misogyny that was very "I'm not like other PTA moms" or "criminals with ankle monitors" while the author desperately tried to paint the characters as both "holier" AND "more distraught" than thou. 

Which would be possible to empathize with given the story, had it not been written in such a distasteful AND poor way.

near the beginning, there was also a bit along the lines of (paraphrasing) "I was surprised to remember the robber was white, and not mexican or black. Was that racist?" 
The way it was written was more "oops" than it was "yes. that was racist. let's unpack, or at the very least acknowledge that."

And unfortunately these things were prevalent in many places throughout the book.

Final note: the fact that the author wrote the inner monologue of a character with the most absurd amount of questions that made me feel like we were running in panicked, tight circles, was almost insufferable.