Review: The Stolen Twin - Jade Lee Wright - July 2026 A split second is all it can take to change a life forever, and that truth sits heavily at the heart of The Stolen Twin by Jade Lee Wright. This is one of those stories that quietly settles into your bones as you read, wrapping itself around the idea that family, trust, and truth are far more fragile than we ever like to believe. Bella’s world is already full when the story begins. She and her husband have just adopted twin girls, and life is a blur of nappies, exhaustion, and love. So when she finally steps out for a Christmas party, it feels like a small moment of normality , something light after months of giving everything to motherhood. But that fragile balance is shattered in an instant when her husband calls to say one of the twins is missing. From there, the novel stretches across fourteen years of grief, unanswered questions, and a family living in the shadow of absence. Robyn is gone, and Bella and her husband are left rai...

Book Spotlight: Keep Her Close - Brian O'Rourke - May 2026 This little town seems perfect. Until you start digging… When twelve-year-old Sienna Voss vanishes without trace, three women are pulled into the desperate search for the missing girl. Sienna's mother, Roxanne, will tear up this quiet creek-side town to find her daughter. She felt at home here, trusted her neighbors but has one of them done something unspeakable? Chief of Police Tamsin Drake needs to find Sienna quickly. And not just because she’s a good cop. She’s beginning to suspect the girl’s disappearance is connected to a dark secret she thought she’d buried years ago. Cam-girl Cleo Monroe has a hunch she knows who took Sienna and why. If she’s right, that information could buy her a ticket to a better life. As the search parties fan out and the clock runs down, the three women inexorably close in on the horrifying truth. A truth that only one of them will survive. Keep Her Close,  the chilling psychol...

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 q...

Review: Nine Missing Girls - Steena Holmes - March 2026 As a long-time fan of Steena Holmes, I was absolutely thrilled to dive into Nine Missing Girls. Holmes has a wonderful way of blending emotional depth with gripping suspense, and this book delivered exactly what I was hoping for. It’s the kind of thriller that keeps you turning the pages late into the night ,definitely one of those “just one more chapter” reads. At the heart of the novel is Detective Meri Amber, the FBI’s leading child abduction specialist. Meri has dedicated her entire career to finding missing girls, but her mission is deeply personal. Twenty years ago, her own sister vanished, and that loss fuels every case she takes on. For Meri, each missing girl is a reminder of the sister she never stopped searching for. It adds a powerful emotional layer to the story, making every investigation feel incredibly real and urgent. What makes Nine Missing Girls stand out is its structure. The book follows nine separate cases , ...

Review: The Nowhere Child - Christian White - June 2018 There’s something extra special about receiving a book as a gift , especially a birthday Bookstagram surprise and The Nowhere Child by Christian White felt like exactly that kind of treat: one that invites you to curl up, get cosy, and disappear into its pages for a few blissful hours. A couple of years ago, I read The Ledge by Christian White and was instantly hooked by his knack for tension and twists. Since then, I’ve slowly been working my way through his backlist, and this one had been sitting on my radar for a while particularly because it features one of my absolute favourite tropes: missing children who are later found as teenagers or adults. Think Finding Carter vibes or Angie Stanton’s Don’t Call Me Greta , stories where identity, truth, and memory all collide in the most compelling ways. In The Nowhere Child, we begin in a small, cult-like town in the US, where a baby named Sammy Went disappears without a trace. It’...

Review: Long Time Gone - Charlie Donlea - May 2024 Sometimes the best hooks come from the most unexpected places. I'll admit, I wasn't planning to dive straight into another Charlie Donlea novel, but after finishing Those Empty Eyes, I found myself face-to-face with the opening chapters of Long Time Gone tucked right there at the end. Two chapters in, and I was completely hooked—there's something about Charlie Donlea's ability to weave DNA mysteries with missing persons cases that just hits all my reading sweet spots. Long Time Gone follows Dr. Sloane Hastings, a forensic pathology student working under one of the world's best. As part of her thesis on DNA and crime solving, Sloane decides to submit her own genetic material—partly for research, partly out of curiosity about her adoption. What she discovers turns her world completely upside down. Sloane wasn't just adopted; she was stolen. And the day before her "adoption," her entire biological famil...

Review: Little Does She Know - Book #1 If Only She Knew Series - Pamela Crane -June 2022 As someone who is a true mood reader, it can be hard to find a book that just clicks with you and makes you want to continue with it. I find that as a reader, there are a few authors who I know that I will tend to be more favorable of their books and enjoy them. One of those authors is Pamela Crane with her mystery thriller stories. In Little Does She Know, we start back in the 1980s and Ginger is a single mother to her two boys Benny and Cole.  One day, they are at the beach when her youngest disappears. The newspapers report that he has drowned but Ginger knew her boys when it came to water and that he never would have drowned. With nobody found, it became a cold case. Years later, she is browsing in the newspaper and sees the mayor with a baby boy - she knows her baby anywhere. Did they kidnap him or is she mistaken as they claim that Chris is their child? The family then moves away and ch...

Review: The Girl That Got Away - Marin Montgomery - February 2018 One of the things that I love with my Kindle is Kindle Unlimited as it gives me the chance to read and discover new authors whose books I am on the fence about. They are the ones I want to read, but it's like are they good enough to spend that money on as they possibly could be DNFs and I am a one-time reader when it comes to my books. I had read one of Marin's books previously and enjoyed it, so I grabbed The Girl That Got Away. This book also captured my attention as it contains another of my favorite tropes in a thriller - missing children and then the age-old tale of two went in and only one came back storylines. In this book, it starts with two best friends Avery and Callie who are fourteen years old. Every Summer before school starts for the new year, they camp in a tent in Avery's front yard. This year though, Avery knows it will be the last as Callie  is changing and acting more mature than Avery, she...

Review: The Good Neighbor - Cathryn Grant - September 2019 Not sure exactly what I was in the mood for, I scrolled through my Kindle and came across The Good Neighbor by Cathryn Grant. The cover captivated me with the pink shoe lying on the road and the idea of a kidnapped child. A Missing Persons story. The story starts with Brittany and her parents moving into a small close-knit suburb, the neighbors don't know much about the family as they stick to themselves and it seems Brittany acts much younger than she is. She seems younger than her 14 years old. One night after being here a couple of weeks, Brittany vanishes and is classed as a missing person. Next door Taylor helps by making a Facebook page running search parties and helping the family with whatever they need. During the time Brittany is missing, a woman Crystal sees the post and is shocked as this is her daughter who was taken from her almost 10 years ago. Crystal contacts Taylor and is first seen as a prank messenger bu...

Review: Picture Unavailable - Andrew J. Brandt - October 2022 Picture Unavailable was an interesting book and I grabbed it as the title sounded intriguing. The book was tween to YA orientated and aimed at the younger audience as was very clean despite the horror and supernatural aspect. In this book, there is a shadow that gets a child every 6 years and over time it is like that child never existed as he fades from society and the only people who remember them are the ones who were close to them at the beginning and had a connection. The book starts with Ben's friend disappearing as Ben clutches the light and survives. Now years later, Ben is a teacher and a student named Johnny has disappeared. He knows it's the shadow but he is confused as he was so sure Charlie was the one the shadow wanted. Charlie feels guilty about the night Johnny went missing as his life changed too as his dad died that night looking for Johnny. When it's the end of the year and they get their yea...