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Tijdens een bezoek aan een museum raakt Jessica in de drukte gescheiden van haar man en baby. Hoe ze ook zoekt, ze lijken van de aarde te zijn verdwenen. Radeloos gaat ze uiteindelijk alleen naar huis. Die avond wordt haar man mishandeld en bewusteloos op straat teruggevonden, van hun kind ontbreekt echter elk spoor.
Een uitgebreid onderzoek levert de eerste dagen niets op en Jessica besluit zelf op onderzoek uit te gaan. Ze moet blijven geloven in de terugkeer van haar kind, maar iedereen in haar directe omgeving lijkt zich verdacht te gedragen. Wie staat er eigenlijk aan háár kant? Angstig wacht ze af tot haar man bijkomt. Maar zou hij zich nog wel herinneren wat er gebeurd is? En hoe goed kent ze hem eigenlijk...?
Een uitgebreid onderzoek levert de eerste dagen niets op en Jessica besluit zelf op onderzoek uit te gaan. Ze moet blijven geloven in de terugkeer van haar kind, maar iedereen in haar directe omgeving lijkt zich verdacht te gedragen. Wie staat er eigenlijk aan háár kant? Angstig wacht ze af tot haar man bijkomt. Maar zou hij zich nog wel herinneren wat er gebeurd is? En hoe goed kent ze hem eigenlijk...?
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First published October 24, 2007
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July 24, 2013
It's strange, this book has so many bad reviews but I loved it. Literally could not put it down loved it. Maybe it's because I'm from the area on which it's set and the language (slang) is more understandable or maybe I just loved it but I'd fully recommend giving it a go! I'll be reading other books by this author most definitely.
January 13, 2015
Nada más empezar, ya me estaba pareciendo malo por la traducción (se nota muchísimo que es una traducción del inglés, y algunas frases eran caóticas... no sé si es que no la revisaron o que le dieron poquísimo tiempo a la traductora para entregar el documento, pero, madre mía).
La protagonista no me estaba encantando, pero bueno... Y al terminar el libro le he cogido un asco mortal. Es una Mary Sue de libro de secuestros, en serio. No sabía que tal espécimen existía. Es una histérica de mierda incluso antes de que le roben al maldito niño. Y encima tiene complejo de Electra, así que cada vez que ve un macho se vuelve loca.
Su marido es un estúpido de mierda, un señor Grey que se la tiró dos veces y en la segunda la dejó preñada. Ella quiso abortar pero él le hizo chantaje emocional, así que lo tuvo y se casaron. Y luego a ella le dio depresión posparto porque el tío le hizo quedarse en casa.
La parte del hermano la verdad es que me ha sobrado casi toda (el intento de violación ese no ha aportado un pimiento a la trama). Y el hecho de que la prota tenga traumas con los polis tampoco (con los polis, con su padre, con su madre... con todo el puto mundo). Y el último capítulo en plan "explica trama" sobra totalmente.
En resumen, mierda misógina disfrazada de novela de misterio. ¡Menos mal que me iba a gustar el libro, Miguel!
La protagonista no me estaba encantando, pero bueno... Y al terminar el libro le he cogido un asco mortal. Es una Mary Sue de libro de secuestros, en serio. No sabía que tal espécimen existía. Es una histérica de mierda incluso antes de que le roben al maldito niño. Y encima tiene complejo de Electra, así que cada vez que ve un macho se vuelve loca.
Su marido es un estúpido de mierda, un señor Grey que se la tiró dos veces y en la segunda la dejó preñada. Ella quiso abortar pero él le hizo chantaje emocional, así que lo tuvo y se casaron. Y luego a ella le dio depresión posparto porque el tío le hizo quedarse en casa.
La parte del hermano la verdad es que me ha sobrado casi toda (el intento de violación ese no ha aportado un pimiento a la trama). Y el hecho de que la prota tenga traumas con los polis tampoco (con los polis, con su padre, con su madre... con todo el puto mundo). Y el último capítulo en plan "explica trama" sobra totalmente.
En resumen, mierda misógina disfrazada de novela de misterio. ¡Menos mal que me iba a gustar el libro, Miguel!
March 10, 2018
I was sucked into this book from the first few pages. I probably never would've picked this book up based on the title or the cover, so I am so glad my mom recommended it and loaned me her copy! Not far in I kept thinking why had I not heard of this book before, or seen any buzz about it? Then I realized it was first published some ten years ago.
Jess and her husband, Mickey, and their eight month old son are having a rare day out together, when they get separated in a crowd, and then the husband and son just vanish. Mickey eventually turns up in a hospital, beaten and bruised, and with no memory of what happened.
The narrative is told by Jess in first person point of view, and her fear and terror at losing her son are palpable. As the search and police investigation drags on she becomes more and more desperate and unraveled. As you would when your child is missing.
I loved Silver, the lead detective. I loved how he always called her “kiddo”, until she snapped at him to stop, and then the word still kept trying to slip out of his mouth. Jess was often frustrated with the investigation, feeling that the coppers aren't doing enough quick enough, which might be a natural reaction to the situation, but she also already had a dislike for and distrust of police to begin with. As we learn more about her background and her childhood the reason for that is slowly revealed.
A tense and gripping book, while also being a good character study. I think this is going onto my list of all time favorites, and I will definitely be looking for more of this author.
Jess and her husband, Mickey, and their eight month old son are having a rare day out together, when they get separated in a crowd, and then the husband and son just vanish. Mickey eventually turns up in a hospital, beaten and bruised, and with no memory of what happened.
The narrative is told by Jess in first person point of view, and her fear and terror at losing her son are palpable. As the search and police investigation drags on she becomes more and more desperate and unraveled. As you would when your child is missing.
I loved Silver, the lead detective. I loved how he always called her “kiddo”, until she snapped at him to stop, and then the word still kept trying to slip out of his mouth. Jess was often frustrated with the investigation, feeling that the coppers aren't doing enough quick enough, which might be a natural reaction to the situation, but she also already had a dislike for and distrust of police to begin with. As we learn more about her background and her childhood the reason for that is slowly revealed.
A tense and gripping book, while also being a good character study. I think this is going onto my list of all time favorites, and I will definitely be looking for more of this author.
March 19, 2016
Give this excellent book a chance!
To think that I almost didn't read this book when I saw that it only received a little more than 2 stars! When I actually read the bad reviews, I discovered that one was due to pricing and the others felt there was too much British terminology. I admit it was somewhat noticeable at first but once things got going, I hardly noticed it.
Jess, our protagonist, seemed a little bit abrasive but she grew on me and I came to admire the way she became quite a force to be reckoned with. Her love for Louis knew no bounds and she became unstoppable.
Once I really got going, I could hardly stand to put the book down. Please don't let the negative reviews and small number of stars stop you from buying this book. I almost did, and I'm so glad that I didn't.
This book is highly recommended!
To think that I almost didn't read this book when I saw that it only received a little more than 2 stars! When I actually read the bad reviews, I discovered that one was due to pricing and the others felt there was too much British terminology. I admit it was somewhat noticeable at first but once things got going, I hardly noticed it.
Jess, our protagonist, seemed a little bit abrasive but she grew on me and I came to admire the way she became quite a force to be reckoned with. Her love for Louis knew no bounds and she became unstoppable.
Once I really got going, I could hardly stand to put the book down. Please don't let the negative reviews and small number of stars stop you from buying this book. I almost did, and I'm so glad that I didn't.
This book is highly recommended!
May 8, 2011
Picked this up to read for the Horror requirement of my Popular Materials class, but it seems actually to have been more of a thriller. Oh well.
This one was more of a 2.5 rounded up, really. I enjoyed the writing quite a lot - I've never seen, heard, or read so many Britishisms together in my life, and I lived in England for six months. Some nice description, too. The plot and characters didn't so much resonate with me, though.
Basically, the protagonist, Jessica, is a woman whose baby has just been kidnapped. Her husband, Mickey, who had the baby with him at the time, disappears, too, but is soon found sans baby, beaten to unconsciousness. When he recovers, he seems unable to remember what had happened. This does not help the already-rickety relationship between him and Jessica, who spends the book alternating between doing crazy things to try and get her baby back and worrying about her relationship with Mickey. (Not about Mickey himself, e.g. "Will he be okay?", even though he comes close to death at least once, but about their relationship.)
I can understand that a person would do crazy things if she thought it would help her recover her kidnapped child. The key here, though, is that there should be some plausibility in the idea that these particular crazy actions could help. Jessica has tons of smart, hard-working police officers on her son's trail, and she herself is so unstable that an officer is assigned to babysit her; Jessica then seems to use a lot of her energy giving the police slip so that she can do insane things like meet with the . . . drug lord? . . . who her doped-up younger brother thinks can help her find the baby, and who instead tries to sexually assault her, such that the police who would otherwise be trying to find the baby have to come running to her rescue. She does get herself out of the situation just as the police are arriving, at which point she yells at them for not getting there faster.
I sympathize with the fact that Jessica is desperate to take action of some kind rather than just sitting at home waiting for updates, and the author does a good job of painting her as someone who's really coming undone under terrible stress. Glimpses of her backstory and her messed-up family help this case. Still, a lot of her actions seem terribly illogical. Some of this might be me: while I like my reads to have a good balance of intellect and emotion, I'd prefer one skewed toward cold strategizing (assuming the protagonist is not actually a sociopath) than toward this kind of melodrama.
Also, while there's a lot going down about which our protagonist could be stressed, she really zeroes in on the baby thing. Her brother, who was once her best friend, is in a downward spiral. Her husband is lying in the hospital hurt and brain-scrambled. Jessica, though, is having none of it. Babybabybaby.
Part of the reason I say "baby" instead of using his name is that his name, Louis, is one that drives me nuts because you can pronounce it different ways. I think this actually hindered my sympathy in the book, because whenever I hit the name "Louis," my internal-reading-voice, unable to pronounce it, just went, "you know, the baby."
(Nor is this the only disconnect the names in this book caused me. Jessica's husband is supposed to be a major, major hottie. I'm sorry, but the name "Mickey"? In my head, it's got another name attached to it. "Mouse." And I'm just not feelin' the sex appeal.)
Another reason, I think, that I have trouble with the tight focus on the missing-baby issue (and if you can't get behind that, then the book's basically lost you), is the fact that Louis really isn't a character. Mickey speaks and acts, and Jessica has extensive flackbacks about him. Ditto Robbie, Jessica's brother. Louis is just sort of a . . . thing. A precious thing, sure, I'll give you that, even though I'm not a big fan of babies. (It could be that the author is, in part, counting on readers automatically going BABY = MOST IMPORTANT THING EVER, possibly due to her own attitudes? Obviously, I don't know.) But he's not a character - he's a baby. And he's a baby who's absent for almost the entire book. No amount of Jessica's loving remembrance of his peach fuzzy head is going to make me care more about him than I do about, say, the husband who Jessica barely visits in the hospital, even though he feels terrible and is also quite worried about his son.
Plus, the search isn't as tense as it could be. A video is sent early on to indicate that Louis is being well taken care of, and it's established that he was probably kidnapped by someone who has no intention of harming him. So there's not much of a time-sensitive element to the search, except that they need to be quick because every moment's delay increases the chances that Jessica will go postal.
The ending seems sudden and weird to me. So Mickey was in on it, kind of. But not really! But this makes him evil! But all that matters is that Louis is back! So presumably Jessica will . . . leave Mickey? Maybe get up with that police officer she's been abusing for most of the book? Okie-dokie, then . . .
I was genuinely sad about Robbie's death, and sympathized still less with Jessica because of how quickly her focus boomeranged from that tragedy back to the search for Louis.
Also, all of Jessica's involvement with the case was quite forced. She doesn't have any relevant skills, basically, and most of the information she knows could have been passed on to the really-quite-effective police instead of her rather-ineffectively acting on it herself. The fact that she nevertheless wedges herself firmly into every aspect of the investigation is interesting in what it says about her character - she has backstory reasons not to trust the police - but makes for some *headdesk* moments when I really wish she'd just do the smart thing.
Still, not too bad a read for the writing. I probably wouldn't read another thriller by this author, but I'd like to see her try her hand at comedy.
This one was more of a 2.5 rounded up, really. I enjoyed the writing quite a lot - I've never seen, heard, or read so many Britishisms together in my life, and I lived in England for six months. Some nice description, too. The plot and characters didn't so much resonate with me, though.
Basically, the protagonist, Jessica, is a woman whose baby has just been kidnapped. Her husband, Mickey, who had the baby with him at the time, disappears, too, but is soon found sans baby, beaten to unconsciousness. When he recovers, he seems unable to remember what had happened. This does not help the already-rickety relationship between him and Jessica, who spends the book alternating between doing crazy things to try and get her baby back and worrying about her relationship with Mickey. (Not about Mickey himself, e.g. "Will he be okay?", even though he comes close to death at least once, but about their relationship.)
I can understand that a person would do crazy things if she thought it would help her recover her kidnapped child. The key here, though, is that there should be some plausibility in the idea that these particular crazy actions could help. Jessica has tons of smart, hard-working police officers on her son's trail, and she herself is so unstable that an officer is assigned to babysit her; Jessica then seems to use a lot of her energy giving the police slip so that she can do insane things like meet with the . . . drug lord? . . . who her doped-up younger brother thinks can help her find the baby, and who instead tries to sexually assault her, such that the police who would otherwise be trying to find the baby have to come running to her rescue. She does get herself out of the situation just as the police are arriving, at which point she yells at them for not getting there faster.
I sympathize with the fact that Jessica is desperate to take action of some kind rather than just sitting at home waiting for updates, and the author does a good job of painting her as someone who's really coming undone under terrible stress. Glimpses of her backstory and her messed-up family help this case. Still, a lot of her actions seem terribly illogical. Some of this might be me: while I like my reads to have a good balance of intellect and emotion, I'd prefer one skewed toward cold strategizing (assuming the protagonist is not actually a sociopath) than toward this kind of melodrama.
Also, while there's a lot going down about which our protagonist could be stressed, she really zeroes in on the baby thing. Her brother, who was once her best friend, is in a downward spiral. Her husband is lying in the hospital hurt and brain-scrambled. Jessica, though, is having none of it. Babybabybaby.
Part of the reason I say "baby" instead of using his name is that his name, Louis, is one that drives me nuts because you can pronounce it different ways. I think this actually hindered my sympathy in the book, because whenever I hit the name "Louis," my internal-reading-voice, unable to pronounce it, just went, "you know, the baby."
(Nor is this the only disconnect the names in this book caused me. Jessica's husband is supposed to be a major, major hottie. I'm sorry, but the name "Mickey"? In my head, it's got another name attached to it. "Mouse." And I'm just not feelin' the sex appeal.)
Another reason, I think, that I have trouble with the tight focus on the missing-baby issue (and if you can't get behind that, then the book's basically lost you), is the fact that Louis really isn't a character. Mickey speaks and acts, and Jessica has extensive flackbacks about him. Ditto Robbie, Jessica's brother. Louis is just sort of a . . . thing. A precious thing, sure, I'll give you that, even though I'm not a big fan of babies. (It could be that the author is, in part, counting on readers automatically going BABY = MOST IMPORTANT THING EVER, possibly due to her own attitudes? Obviously, I don't know.) But he's not a character - he's a baby. And he's a baby who's absent for almost the entire book. No amount of Jessica's loving remembrance of his peach fuzzy head is going to make me care more about him than I do about, say, the husband who Jessica barely visits in the hospital, even though he feels terrible and is also quite worried about his son.
Plus, the search isn't as tense as it could be. A video is sent early on to indicate that Louis is being well taken care of, and it's established that he was probably kidnapped by someone who has no intention of harming him. So there's not much of a time-sensitive element to the search, except that they need to be quick because every moment's delay increases the chances that Jessica will go postal.
The ending seems sudden and weird to me. So Mickey was in on it, kind of. But not really! But this makes him evil! But all that matters is that Louis is back! So presumably Jessica will . . . leave Mickey? Maybe get up with that police officer she's been abusing for most of the book? Okie-dokie, then . . .
I was genuinely sad about Robbie's death, and sympathized still less with Jessica because of how quickly her focus boomeranged from that tragedy back to the search for Louis.
Also, all of Jessica's involvement with the case was quite forced. She doesn't have any relevant skills, basically, and most of the information she knows could have been passed on to the really-quite-effective police instead of her rather-ineffectively acting on it herself. The fact that she nevertheless wedges herself firmly into every aspect of the investigation is interesting in what it says about her character - she has backstory reasons not to trust the police - but makes for some *headdesk* moments when I really wish she'd just do the smart thing.
Still, not too bad a read for the writing. I probably wouldn't read another thriller by this author, but I'd like to see her try her hand at comedy.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 4, 2011
I really thought this book was going to be a great read but I couldn't be more wrong. I felt that it went on for about 100 pages more than what it should have. It took forever to finally figure out what was really going on in the main characters life (past and present) that by the time it was revealed you didn't really care anymore. This book is written by a British author and even though I am someone who watches and reads a good deal of British shows/books there were a lot of phrases/words that I did not understand. I am not one to give up in the middle of a book but seriously considered it when reading this one.
February 16, 2017
Claire Seeber an author of unputdownab!e c!ass
I started reading Claire Seeber backwards but she is an author that grips a reader. Her novels are fast paced and kept you up late. Lullaby is a mother's nightmare, who do you trust? Jessica finds her life in tatters when Louis her son is taken and her husband goes missing. Mickey is found badly injured but the nightmare is only just beginning . The story is gripping and the reason this author has prominent place on my book shelves.
I started reading Claire Seeber backwards but she is an author that grips a reader. Her novels are fast paced and kept you up late. Lullaby is a mother's nightmare, who do you trust? Jessica finds her life in tatters when Louis her son is taken and her husband goes missing. Mickey is found badly injured but the nightmare is only just beginning . The story is gripping and the reason this author has prominent place on my book shelves.
February 6, 2022
Jessica Finnegan is visiting an art gallery with her husband, Mickey, and their new baby, Louis. Then Mickey and Louis vanish. Mickey shows up, badly beaten, and is taken to hospital. But Louis is nowhere to be found. Whilst having several mental breakdowns and endlessly leaking milk from her breasts, Jessica tries to figure out who could have taken her baby.
Yeesh. I'm just not having any luck with books lately.
Although this was published several years before the boom of missing/kidnapped baby/child thrillers that started in the mid-2010s, it doesn't make it any better or more interesting than them. The book's biggest problem is that we are saddled with a protagonist who absolutely tested my last nerve. Maybe it's an accurate representation of a mother whose baby has been kidnapped, in that she has mental breakdown after mental breakdown, accuses everybody she knows of kidnapping her baby, behaves irrationally and beligerantly, and constantly passes out or vomits.
But it sure got tedious reading about it.
At over 440 pages, this needed some serious editing. The plot just goes around in circles as it desperately tries to convince us that it isn't going to deliver the plot twist all readers would have figured out about halfway through (what was with that sequence involving Jessica going with her brother to the General?!?). It's filled with the usual tropes And you know you're in trouble when the big plot reveal happens because the antagonist randomly decides to spill the beans even though they had pretty much gotten away with it.
A lullaby is supposed to send you to sleep, right? This book at least achieves that.
Yeesh. I'm just not having any luck with books lately.
Although this was published several years before the boom of missing/kidnapped baby/child thrillers that started in the mid-2010s, it doesn't make it any better or more interesting than them. The book's biggest problem is that we are saddled with a protagonist who absolutely tested my last nerve. Maybe it's an accurate representation of a mother whose baby has been kidnapped, in that she has mental breakdown after mental breakdown, accuses everybody she knows of kidnapping her baby, behaves irrationally and beligerantly, and constantly passes out or vomits.
But it sure got tedious reading about it.
At over 440 pages, this needed some serious editing. The plot just goes around in circles as it desperately tries to convince us that it isn't going to deliver the plot twist all readers would have figured out about halfway through (what was with that sequence involving Jessica going with her brother to the General?!?). It's filled with the usual tropes And you know you're in trouble when the big plot reveal happens because the antagonist randomly decides to spill the beans even though they had pretty much gotten away with it.
A lullaby is supposed to send you to sleep, right? This book at least achieves that.
December 8, 2010
This might be a marmite book because the people I know who've read it either love it or hate it. Unfortunately I'm in the latter category. I ended up abandoning it about 100 pages from the end. I think it was an interesting idea - telling the story of an kidnapped baby using the mother as the narrator but I didn't think it quite came off. There was little character development. This was understandable in the context of the book. I don't think the mother of a kidnapped baby is going to spend much time musing over the characters of the people she knows or meets and I don't see how else their characters could have been explored. However this meant that I struggled to remember who some of the minor characters were. The plot was also confused. The mother suspected just about everyone (apart from her and the police) of being the kidnappers at some point or other. Although this seemed realistic it meant that the plot got a bit bogged down. Added to that there were some cryptic mentions of events from the past which were casting a shadow on the present. I think there were just too many subplots going on for my taste and I could have done with a little less mystery and a bit more resolution. Despite this I thought it was pretty obvious who had done it by about 1/2 way through so in the end I skipped to the end to check if I was right (and I was).
March 26, 2011
To be honest, this was my third attempt at reading this book. I am sooo glad I am done with it and can finally shelve it away or hopefully give it away! Why did I keep reading? I had to know who did it!
Lullaby was extremely hard for me to get into. It grabbed your attention because of the plot-a mother has her baby stolen-but the rest of the story is all over the place. I think part of my dislike for the book was that it was written by a British author and was full of unfamiliar terms. It's hard to read a book when you are spending a ton of time looking up words you don't understand.
The main character wasn't likable. I just could not connect with her. She just came across as weird and she did things that I couldn't see a mother doing if her child is missing. The rest of the characters in the book weren't developed enough to even pay a lot of attention to even though Jessica (the main character) seemed to suspect them all. In the end, I think she closed the storyline well. I was right with my suspicions of the kidnapper which after suffering through the book for just under a month gave me a little satisfaction.
Not sure if I will attempt any other books by this author.
Lullaby was extremely hard for me to get into. It grabbed your attention because of the plot-a mother has her baby stolen-but the rest of the story is all over the place. I think part of my dislike for the book was that it was written by a British author and was full of unfamiliar terms. It's hard to read a book when you are spending a ton of time looking up words you don't understand.
The main character wasn't likable. I just could not connect with her. She just came across as weird and she did things that I couldn't see a mother doing if her child is missing. The rest of the characters in the book weren't developed enough to even pay a lot of attention to even though Jessica (the main character) seemed to suspect them all. In the end, I think she closed the storyline well. I was right with my suspicions of the kidnapper which after suffering through the book for just under a month gave me a little satisfaction.
Not sure if I will attempt any other books by this author.
June 15, 2017
I got this one because her latest, The Stepmother, looked great but my library didn't have a copy. Had I read all the reviews for Lullaby first I might not have bothered, so I'm glad I didn't. I thought this was a fabulous first novel, not five star worthy, but a great read. Filled with good writing and great turns of phrases, it's a serious page turner. While the ending isn't anything you won't have guessed, you're there for the resolution Jessica deserves and for the good "yarn " of a tale. Will definitely check out more from Claire Seeber.
May 13, 2011
This book was such a disappointment. The synopsis was so good but the book delivered none of the suspense it had promised. The main character, Jessica, was billed as a tough woman but was actually so flakey that I wanted to slap her. When I was about 75% in, I found myself thinking 'just find the bloody baby and get this drivel finished'. I am so glad I've now managed to finish it!
October 22, 2010
ok can anyone please just tell me how this ends. i really have no interest in reading it any further except the fact that i want to know who did it! thanks!
im done. i couldnt read anymore of it! i really want to know what happened to the baby- but not enough to finish it
im done. i couldnt read anymore of it! i really want to know what happened to the baby- but not enough to finish it
April 5, 2012
I thought this was an exciting read. I liked that it was from Jessica's point of view and you didn't know what the police were doing. I hadn't heard of Claire Seeber until I was sent this book & I'd like to read her other books. It looks like Silver appears in her other novels.
May 6, 2018
I really enjoyed this book and found it to be a page-turner, although it is not fast-paced and action packed, I really enjoyed the author's writing style, I liked the main character and was interested in 'whodunnit'. It might seem a little slow-paced for some and it does make use of British slang but not so you can't figure out the meaning using context. That being said, I enjoy British crime dramas so these things may have enhanced my enjoyment of the book.
June 4, 2024
There was too much going on in this book that was irrelevant to the main story. The whole brother situation was pointless and then not even ‘resolved’ in the end - was he murdered or did he kill himself?
I’m not an expert on police procedures but I very much doubt they would allow the mother to tag along on police missions and would be making sure she wasn’t there.
I just found this to be too bitty and poorly written. Give it a miss
I’m not an expert on police procedures but I very much doubt they would allow the mother to tag along on police missions and would be making sure she wasn’t there.
I just found this to be too bitty and poorly written. Give it a miss
December 26, 2019
This book was kind of interesting, it had different kinds of slangs that are not often used in America. Throughout the book, I felt like the book was just a tad little bit too long, and kinda of dragging.
However the book was good overall. A mother had her husband and a child snatched from her. Full of turns and twists throughout the book.
However the book was good overall. A mother had her husband and a child snatched from her. Full of turns and twists throughout the book.
May 2, 2025
This book was much too long, the story dragged and the pacing was terrible. As a mother myself, I didn’t find Jessica sympathetic or realistic, and the other characters cane off more as caricatures rather than real, nuanced people. I read the whole thing in hopes it would surprise me or change my mind but it did neither.
November 5, 2025
Not a favourite. Didn’t warm to any of the characters. About a wealthy couple whose baby is kidnapped and the subsequent investigation. Dislike the slang throughout the book. This didn’t fit with a wealthy couple. The interaction with the police officer was unbelievable and there is no way the mother of an abducted baby would be able to join the police in following up numerous leads.
June 4, 2022
Over all it was a good story line, but it just dragged out way to long. I knew exactly what was going to happen from the start, but I kept reading to seeing exactly how it would play out at the end. Nothing that jumps out as a plot twist.
January 19, 2025
Estoy maravillada con este thriller. Realmente atrapante una historia de secuestro infantil y pánico a la pérdida de algo que dabas por hecho que ibas a poder tener en cualquier momento. Llevaba años en mis estanterías pendiente de leerlo y ha sido un gran acierto
October 24, 2017
Addictive!
Read this book in less than a day on holiday! Already downloaded two of the authors other books! Great book.
Read this book in less than a day on holiday! Already downloaded two of the authors other books! Great book.
April 11, 2018
could not get into it at all due not even finish it.. dissapointed in my self I ALWAYS finish a book but I did not with this one but the plot was def interesting
May 21, 2018
Great suspense read! Kept me guessing until the very end. I highly recommend!
June 14, 2018
Slow.
December 18, 2018
This was an exceptionally written novel, full of intrigue and suspense right up to the very end. It kept me captivated and reading much longer into the night than I should. Brilliant
March 21, 2019
Compelling, chilling, haunting. Very well written.
March 27, 2019
Despite some British wording (which some I didn’t understand), I enjoyed the book.
May 1, 2019
La traducción no es nada buena. Pero la historia me entretuvo, y me engancho hasta el final.
January 6, 2020
Loved this book. There's something not quite right about this story and although it takes a while to emerge, the twist is excellent.
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