Review: The Boy in the Photo - Nicole Trope
Review: The Boy in the Photo - Nicole Trope - June 2019
If you are in the mood for a mystery novel then The Boy in the Photo by
Nicole Trope is the read for you. The novel starts off with a case that could
happen to anyone as Megan and her husband argue like cats and dogs as he is
controlling and abusive towards her. Megan has had enough, so she takes her son
Daniel and moves out. Trying to start new, Megan enrols Daniel into school and
things seem to be working until one day when Megan's worst nightmare happens.
She has gone to school to pick up Daniel - her six-year-old son, only to learn
that her ex-husband picked him up and now has gone off the grid kidnapping her
son, her baby boy. Six years pass and though Megan thinks about her son
all the time and has joined a support group for similar parents and made two
great friends Tom and Susan who have been through similar cases. She is trying
to move on with her new husband -Detective Michael and their young baby girl
Evie. One day Megan gets a phone call from her husband, saying that they have
found Daniel. Megan rushes to the station and sees her son. It should be a
happy reunion, but her boy isn't the same kid she said goodbye to that morning
she dropped him off at school. This Daniel is sullen, hiding things, keeping
secrets and acts just like a carbon copy of her ex-husband. What happens though
when Megan discovers some unsettling news and her past comes to haunt her? Can
Megan protect her little girl from having the same fate as Daniel happen to her?
I have to admit, I liked the twist of the ending of this book but didn't like
what happened to Megan as I felt it was a let-down to the story as it was like
she just got her family back and now we will rip it apart again in one way or
another - WTF ??. Overall, the Boy in the Photo was a good mystery but in parts
could tell it was Australian due to the slower pace of the story.
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