Three Days Missing
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Publisher Description
When a child goes missing, two mothers' lives collide in a shocking way in this suspenseful novel from the bestselling author of The Marriage Lie.
It's every parent's worst nightmare: the call that comes in the middle of the night.
When Kat Jenkins awakens to the police on her doorstep, her greatest fear is realised. Her nine–year–old son, Ethan, is missing – vanished from the cabin where he'd been on an overnight field trip with his class. Shocked and distraught, Kat rushes to the campground where he was last seen. But she's too late; the authorities have returned from their search empty–handed after losing Ethan's trail in the mountain forest.
Another mother from the school, Stef Huntington, seems like she has it all: money, prominence in the community, a popular son and a loving husband. She hardly knows Kat, except for the vicious gossip that swirls around Kat's traumatic past. But as the police investigation unfolds, Ethan's disappearance will have earth–shattering consequences in Stef's own life – and the paths of these two mothers are about to cross in ways no one could have anticipated.
Racing against the clock, their desperate search for answers begins – one where the greatest danger could lie behind the everyday smiles of those they trust the most.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
For Kat Jenkins, the first narrator of this gripping novel of suspense from Belle (The Marriage Lie), her eight-year-old son, Ethan, is the only good thing to come out of her marriage to her physically and emotionally abusive soon-to-be-ex-husband, Andrew Maddox. The morning after she sees Ethan off on an overnight class trip to the gold rush town of Dahlonega, Ga., she's awoken by the police with the news that Ethan is missing. Meanwhile, Stef, the second narrator and the wife of Atlanta mayor Sam Huntington, gets a call from someone claiming to have taken her son Sammy, who is on the same trip and resembles Ethan. Sammy is fine, but he may hold clues to Ethan's whereabouts, if Stef can pry them out of him. Belle does a masterful job of building tension as the search for Ethan gains steam toward the somewhat predictable conclusion, and she credibly highlights the economic and social divide between the upscale Huntingtons and Kat, who struggles at vindictive Andrew's mercy. Readers will be glad to get to know these two very different, yet equally strong women.
Customer Reviews
A mother’s worst fear
I’m currently working my way through Belle’s back catalogue after binging The Personal Assistant (5 stars). Three Days Missing hits different as a mum of a son who goes away to school camp. Perfectly captured.