Then She Was Gone: From the number one bestselling author of The Family Upstairs

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Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department’s earlier practice ( The Bone Collection, 2016, etc. BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. The book alternates between the present day life of Laurel (whose entire life was destroyed as a consequence of her daughter’s kidnapping) and the circumstances of Ellie’s kidnapping. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.

I was so intrigued in finding out what happened to Ellie Mack that I was racing through those pages as fast as I could! Lisa Jewell is a brilliant storyteller and I will be recommending this book for an emotional, suspenseful, and captivating read. At the end of the book, the author mentions that her agent had an audacious and shocking idea for Then She Was Gone which the author championed. Lisa Jewell's first novel, Ralph’s Party, was published in 1999 and was the best-selling debut novel of the year. Lisa Jewell is the internationally bestselling author of sixteen novels, including the New York Times bestseller Then She Was Gone, as well as I Found You, The Girls in the Garden, and The House We Grew Up In.

You know, how you get to forty and you suddenly stop giving a sh** about all the stupid things you worried about your whole life. Floyd is the second loser in this lovely cast; when he discovers the true origins of his daughter, Poppy, he stalks Laurel, engineers a meeting with her and eventually falls for her.

Floyd‘s family has a precocious daughter, Poppy, who looks like Ellie and a sister that is quite different. maybe i wont be playing the whole ‘predict what happens based on the synopsis only’ game because it turns out i only got 1 out of 4 guesses right and its not a good look for my ego. You have to suspend a tiny bit of your disbelief or questions as to how the kidnapping was truly pulled off. This is not a cliched version of fiction with a bunch of peripatetic perfunctory characters with a mandatory twist at the end to consider it as a thriller.I became invested in the feelings of Eliie’s mother, and as a mother of four daughters, I wanted so badly for things to somehow turn out that this poor woman didn’t have to continue without knowing what happened to her missing beautiful, intelligent, golden girl! If she could unwind the timeline, untwist it and roll it back the other way like a ball of wool, she'd see the knots in the yarn, the warning signs.

Her multilayered characters are sheer perfection, and even the most astute thriller reader won't see where everything is going until the final threads are unknotted. After ten long years, her mother, Laurel Mack, finds her new love, Floyd, after divorcing her first husband.The bad ones were good characters in so much that they were creepy and sinister while at the same time being damaged. And in this very 'ordinaryness' Jewell creates compelling characters that we come to love and empathise with, and addictive reads. Though I knew where it was going early on, I still truly enjoyed it and simply could not put it down!