I really wanted to like this one a lot more than I did. I loved the premise, but unfortunately, for me, it just didn’t live up to the promise.
Two weeks before the wedding, Amy’s fiancé Matt doesn’t return home after a dinner with a client. She calls the police to report him missing, but there is no sign of him. Then, Matt is also reported missing by a second woman, Fiona, who tells the police that Matt was on his way to break up with Amy when she left her house, but no one has seen him since. The police seem to believe Fiona and think that Amy is lying to them. What happened to Matt? Will the police find him or will it be too late?
I liked the story and the idea of the story. A man living a double life who seems to not have a past… as in no social media, no history, no family. And I liked getting both sides of the story of Amy and Matt’s relationship from Amy and her adult daughter Jess.
But overall, it is a bit of a mess. The only reason to include Jess seems to be to add the truth about what a creep Matt is, but otherwise, she doesn’t have a real purpose. Perhaps to do some of the detectives’ jobs for them, but that’s about it. And the detectives are rather worthless. Their lack of independent investigation was just weird… they just take the word of the person they are speaking to at the time, but as soon as they talk to someone else, their opinion is completely flipped. And then they flip back. It is just strange. And Amy’s whole current and background story isn’t told in a clear way, but it also isn’t told in a thriller way of slowly teasing out the story with the surprising twists and turns. None of it is really all that surprising, honestly.
Overall, I felt this could have used one more pass by an editor and it could have been tightened it up and made to flow better as a psychological thriller. The author definitely has promise for the future, though.
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from NetGalley and the Avon Books UK in exchange for my honest review. It did not influence my opinion.