VBT # Review: Our Daughter Is Missing - Darren O'Sullivan - January 2026 Welcome to The Phantom Paragrapher Book Blog! I'm thrilled to be hosting a stop on the Zooloos Book Tours virtual book tour for Darren O'Sullivan's gripping thriller, Our Daughter is Missing. Imagine waking up to your worst nightmare: your daughter doesn't come home. Now imagine you're physically unable to leave your house to search for her. This is the gut-wrenching premise that pulled me into O'Sullivan's latest psychological thriller, and honestly, I couldn't put it down. Our protagonist is a mother trapped by agoraphobia, watching the world through her windows while her daughter Faye vanishes somewhere out there in the dangerous world she's been hiding from. The setup is brilliant how do you rescue someone when you can't rescue yourself from your own fears? It's the kind of high-concept premise that immediately hooks you, and I found myself racing through chapt...

    Review: Mother- Daughter Murder Night - Nina Simon - September 2023 This book captured my attention from the title as I imagined a mother/daughter duo with a game night but instead of board games - it was murder. This book also had a very cozy mystery feel to it. In The Mother Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon, we have three generations of females - grandmother Lana, daughter Beth, and granddaughter Jack aka Jacqueline. Lana has Cancer and has gone to live with her daughter in the small hometown of Elkhorn Slough, it is in the middle of nowhere and nothing exciting normally happens. That is until Jack finds on one of her kayak tours, a dead body and she is labelled as a suspect in the death of Ricardo Cruz. Lana wants anything to clear her granddaughter and this is the most exciting thing that has happened in a while. She misses the thrill. During the rest of the book, Lana will work alongside a reluctant Beth and an excited Jack in trying to solve the mystery of who ki...