What She Knew: A Novel
Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780062413864 (0062413864)
ASIN: 0062413864
Publish date: 2015-12-01
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages no: 496
Edition language: English
This book kept me reading. Well, parts of it. Other parts were eye-rollingly bad. The narrative framed as a direct recollection of events from Rachel (mother of missing boy) and from Jim (primary detective) were compelling. They felt authentic. The supposed psychiatric case notes were just awful. Ev...
In this story, a child goes missing from the park while with his mother. It goes through all the process of trying to figure out what happened, who took him, if he's alive, etc. The reader witnesses the investigation, the family's perspective, the news and more. I did not figure out how it would ...
I struggled with this book and perhaps I have read too many novels lately about missing children. I made the mistake of listening to this one on audio and its not that the narrator was bad but the book seemed to drag on forever and as an audio book it just didn't work for me. I didn't find this nov...
For a thriller about an abducted child I thought this was mostly boring. It does a good job with characterization but beyond that I lost interest. It takes place in only a few weeks and is not nearly as heart pounding as I had hoped. Rachel takes her son for a walk in the woods, just like any oth...
This book reels you in right from the beginning. The story is every mother’s worse nightmare. A single mother takes her precious eight-year-old son to the park for a walk with the family dog. She gives him an ounce of independence and lets him walk ahead to get to a swing in the park. He’s only out ...