Fiction, Psychological Suspense, Thriller

4****

Blurb: Erin Moore, kidnapped as a teenager and held for months, learns her abductor is up for parole. The police always believed her captor acted alone, and that the female accomplice Erin described years ago was the fabrication of a traumatized mind. Twenty years later, Erin leads a rigidly structured life with her husband and two young daughters and has a successful psychology practice in the same small midwestern town. When her abductor is paroled early and goes missing, leaving behind a large pool of blood, Erin and her husband become suspects. Erin receives threatening notes she is certain came from the accomplice, but she is unable to convince the police the menace is real. As Erin watches her life unravel, including her marriage, career and possibly her sanity, she knows the only way out is to bring the accomplice to justice, even if it’s twenty years late.

Thoughts: This book is full of suspense and angst. The main character, Erin Moore, was kidnapped when she was a young teen and kept for months. She was rescued and the man who held her sentenced to 25 years in prison. But he might get out early. Erin has lived her entire life in fear of the woman accomplice, but nobody believes her. Not then, not now. She, her husband, and two daughters live in a beautiful home surrounded by high security fences and cameras. Even though she is a practicing psychologist, she can’t get past her fear or the knowledge that there’s another person out there. Every year on her birthday, she receives a postcard, but nobody will believe it’s from this so-called accomplice. Then the kidnapper gets out… and is killed.

The characters are frighteningly realistic, as is the premise for the story. And the twist at the end was unexpected – and well-done.

If you’re the nervous type, I suggest reading this during daylight hours with all the lights on. And make sure to lock all your doors and windows.

Recommended.