Helpful Score: 1
Very well written but with disturbing elements. I didn't quite know what I was getting into. I struggle with children in distress and this was tough going in places but not in any detailed way that would have been too much. I could not stop and had to see it through to the end. There are many layers to this missing child story that are all too real. A parent's nightmare but also an innocent victim being wrongfully accused of such an atrocious act as harming a child. A mob mentality and the things people in fear are capable of. Mostly it is a tale of a desperate father and the lengths he will go to to find his son alive or avenge those who may be responsible. I will be reading more of this author.
Wow! What a ride! I wasn't able to put this book down!
A thoroughly good read -- intriguing mystery, with a satisfying undercurrent of thoughtful reflection on mob psychology, and the impossibility of objective investigation when every Tom, Dick and Harriet thinks that access to Google makes them Ace Detectives.
I felt that the ending let it down a little: undermined the powerful sense that, when his child disappeared, Cam Murdoch entered a moral Twilight Zone, from which he would never emerge, whatever the outcome of the police investigation. Too much tying up of loose ends where it might have been better to leave the ending ambiguous.
However, I couldn't put it down, there are satisfying twists and turns, and the writing and characterization of the two leads (Murdoch and the lead police detective Rebecca Kent) was very engaging ...
I felt that the ending let it down a little: undermined the powerful sense that, when his child disappeared, Cam Murdoch entered a moral Twilight Zone, from which he would never emerge, whatever the outcome of the police investigation. Too much tying up of loose ends where it might have been better to leave the ending ambiguous.
However, I couldn't put it down, there are satisfying twists and turns, and the writing and characterization of the two leads (Murdoch and the lead police detective Rebecca Kent) was very engaging ...
