"Sometimes---though she'd never admitted this to anyone---she felt Emma reverberating through her own body like the aftermath of a slap, like the ghost of her sister lived inside her and wanted the truth known."
-Haley's thoughts from the novel
Wow! This book held me in its clutches but not for long. I finished it in 3 days. It was advertised as a novel of suspense and it certainly lived up to that billing!
Haley McCullough's older sister has been gone for 10 years, presumed dead although a body has never been found. Haley is still grieving and experiencing anxiety when a discovery of possible evidence is reported, giving her and her parents hope for some closure.
Haley's sister, Emma, vanished from a party in the woods with college friends and in frequent flashbacks she tells her story, revealing little by little what happened to her. So many attendees at the party should have known something about Emma's disappearance but claimed ignorance: best friend Josie, her brother Chris and current husband Noah; Emma's college art professor Priya and her doctor-husband and Haley's current anatomy instructor, Brad; even Haley's fiancé Dean is not above suspicion.
Short chapters, a fast-paced plot, foreshadowing and this reader's constantly changing predictions of who the culprit might be made for quite a page-turner! Literary value, maybe not much. Entertainment value, a rating of 5!
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