This is good! Most of us are just average families doing the best to raise our children, look after them, love and care for them. Most children are well-adjusted, doing what their parents/carers expect of them, growing up, learning, just being children. And then one day all that normality just explodes into a million smithereens. Your 15 year old gorgeous loving smart daughter, Ellie, goes to the library and disappears. Just like that. Gone. No body, no witnesses, no motive, nothing. 15 years later, her mother Laurel is divorced, son Nicholas has grown up and moved away. A body is found - Ellie's. So some closure, but even with the cold case publicity there is still no progress on finding out how or why Ellie died. Not long after Laurel is sitting in a cafe, and out of nowhere the perfect man, Floyd, appears and makes an instant connection with Laurel. He has a daughter, 9 year old Poppy, who literally takes Laurel's breath away - she is the spitting image of Ellie. What would you do?
Narrated in turn by both Ellie and Laurel, this is a twisted and dark tale of suburban life gone completely wrong, both in Ellie's world and in Laurel's present day world. It is excellent as the unexpected horror begins to unwind. The characters are all believable, all seemingly normal, the people you come across in every day life. How afraid do we need to be of those in our community? And with a satisfying ending to boot.
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