A small town is devastated when doula Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, mysteriously vanish.

Then there is, Leo (Delilah's brother,) Meredith (Delilah's mother) and Kate (a neighbour of Delilah's. The story opens with prologue of young mother Shelby in mid twenties, having dysfunctional marriage, seeing lipstick stain on her husband’s shirt but she doesn’t care.We go from present to various past dates while changing points of views of Delilah, Leo, his mom, and a neighbor. He has that nothing-to-lose attitude, given that his career is swirling down the toilet bowl anyway. Honeslty the whole bea and Meredith accidently killing Shelly and then hiding her body didn't worked out for me .

Black Bear Television, the TV division of Black Bear Pictures, has acquired the film rights for Local Woman Missing in advance of the release of the book. I struggled with how to rate this book, since I do think Kubica does a really solid job of building up her narrative and presenting it in a way that’s quite engrossing. She had gone for a late run since her husband was home and this was the only time she had to herself as she has an infant to care for. Meredith eventually finds out that her friend Cassandra was responsible for the threatening messages she was getting (because Cassandra had learned that Meredith had a romantic history with her husband, Marty). She's another abducted girl who was brainwashed into thinking she is Delilah (whose disappearance was well-publicized).This can be an effective storytelling device, but in this case, waiting for the private investigator heroine to get to where the reader is at the beginning of the story feels interminable. Before she can talk to him, they run into their next-door neighbors, Kate and Bea, who are celebrating Bea’s 30th birthday; the four of them eat, drink, and dance.

One client in particular worries her; Meredith fears her husband might be abusing her, and she's also unhappy with the way the woman’s obstetrician treats her. i think its the cheapest kind of twist, not to mention that this was queer representation and being smacked with the idea that even lesbians can be evil just cheapens it further. A Garda spokesperson said: "Gardaí are seeking the public's assistance in tracing the whereabouts of 69-year-old Maureen O’Connor, who is reported missing from her home in Skehill, Glengarrif, Co. Taking you back 11 years, I literally was holding my breath waiting for that moment when the past and the present would merge into each other.Second in the military crime series featuring Special Agents Scott Brodie and Magnolia "Maggie" Taylor, after The Deserter (2019). And she was the central character in If It Bleeds, a novella in the 2020 collection of the same name. im not sure how to describe it other than the reader is given the entire picture, a large mural of everything that has happened. Flashing back to 11 years ago, soon after Meredith disappeared, her body was found in a motel and it's determined to be a suicide.