Local Woman Missing Review

 Hey guys. 

Ro here with an about time I read a thriller that thrills me.

Today We review Local Women Missing by Mary Kubica 

A synopsis to start it off.

People don't just disappear without a trace…

Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents connected? After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold.

Now, eleven years later, Delilah shockingly returns. Everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they'll find…

I’m going to try not to put any spoilers in here.

But I can’t make promises. 

I warned you!!!

Well, it starts off with a woman cheating on her husband in a car at the dead-end of a block. Like is that really the best place for you to hide the affaire your having. I feel like anyone could see that. 🤷🏻‍♀️

After we are brought back to the story where it goes through three well kinda four different perspectives. You are a girl for the first couple chapters that is being held captive in a basement by a crazy couple and it goes through her struggle of trying to escape and doing just that. Then you have Leo in the present tense who is the brother of the little girl who goes missing Delilah. Then you have two past tense Merediths one of the missing ladies and Kate who is a friend of the family. 

After the cheating spouse intro, you are then thrown into this girl's eyes of being in a dark basement with nothing really to eat. You began to suspect the missing girl is Delilah. She eventually escapes. She is brought together with her family and then you're brought into Leo's perspective for the rest of the book.

I enjoyed Leo’s perspective of seeing how once his sister went missing the kids treated him differently and how he could never really get his father's attention back and how he watches her and you get to see how she tries to adapt to the world, not in a basement. 

Merediths perspective was probably my least favorite. Her job was a doula and at certain points of the story she would go off on how pregnant women have the right to this and this. And Blah Blah Blah. I know some of it was to build some shade towards a certain doctor and make him look like a guilty party but I grew bored. 

Kate's perspective was in the middle. She and her girlfriend were family friends who hung out with Meredith and her husband (who I can’t remember his name.) And once Meredith went missing she and her girlfriend B would help organize search parties and sniff out leads. I really didn’t see the purpose of Kate's perspective until the end. Her timeline ran just after Meredith's timeline. They were mere months apart and I waited to see what interesting twist she would bring to the story. She was there when the first body was found, Shelby. She went sniffing at this shady doctor's office. She was there when Meredith's body was found. She went to talk to Shelby’s Husband who is a very scary man. She was there when Delilah was found. 

I feel like I should leave it there for you. There were many twists and turns and when I began to suspect someone something would happen that would throw off the trail and lead you to another. The whole time I never did guess the one who really had done it. The way the lives intersect was fun to see how they intertwined and where the story was going. 

Was a four-star read for me. 

I have been having a hard time with thrillers lately. The two I read before this fell flat. Now I’m hoping to get back into the thrilling vibe just in time for Spooky season.

Do you have any good Thrillers to suggest? Ones that are twisty and you never saw the ending?