Review: Three Days Missing - Kimberly Belle

Review: Three Days Missing - Kimberly Belle - June 2018

Going through a divorce is hard enough, but navigating it as a parent? That's a whole other level of difficult. Kat knows this all too well. Still raw from her split with ex-husband Andrew, she's now facing another first letting her son Ethan go on an overnight school camping trip to the Mines without either of his parents by his side. It's a small thing in the grand scheme of parenthood, but for Kat, it's enormous. She psyches herself up, plans a little self-care, and tries to embrace the quiet.

That quiet doesn't last long.

A knock at the door. The police on her doorstep. And every parent's worst nightmare delivered in a handful of words - Ethan is missing from the campsite.

What follows is an absolutely gripping race against the clock as Kat rushes to the camp and discovers this was no accident. Someone deliberately set a fire as a distraction and used the chaos to take her son. But why Ethan? That question gnaws at you through every chapter, and the answer, when it comes, is both clever and gut-wrenching. Ethan was taken by mistake. The real target was Sammy, the senator's son and, as it turns out, a bully who had stolen Ethan's sleeping bag. That one act of petty cruelty put Ethan in the wrong place at the wrong time, and now Kat must somehow work alongside a senator she barely knows to get her boy back before it's too late.

Kimberly Belle is an absolute master at building dread, and this book had me holding my breath from chapter to chapter. The ticking clock device works so well here you genuinely feel the weight of every passing hour.

I also have to give a special shoutout to the Gears of War reference tucked in there I burst out laughing because my partner is on Xbox Live playing that constantly, so that was a very relatable moment in the middle of an otherwise tense read!

If you love a fast-paced thriller with heart, this one delivers. Kimberly Belle is firmly one of my favourites, and Three Days Missing is a brilliant example of why.

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