- this edition borrowed from my local library
- first published by Affirm Press 2024
- ISBN 978-1-923022-12-6
- 362 pages
Synopsis (publisher)
There's no such thing as safety in numbers ...
Rachel and Rory Sullivan decide to celebrate making it through a difficult year by taking their teenagers, Emmet and Bridie, to their first stadium concert. By the end of the night, one of the four has vanished without a trace.
As the police investigation intensifies, suspicion is cast on the remaining family members. Everyone has been deceiving one another, but who is to blame for what went wrong? The passing of each hour amplifies their terror that life will never be the same again.
One of Us is Missing is a dark domestic thriller about the dangers lurking right in plain sight.
My Take
Set in Sydney, this thriller makes you contemplate the risks you take when allowing your kids to attend a concert, or a similar public event, even when you are also there. The author has based the plot on personal experience. She depicts a "worst case" scenario with vivid possibilities.
She also shows us that there are often preliminary events that spark this sort of scenario, as well as consequences that last for years.
In this case the disappearance came out of left field, no-one could have predicted it, even though it was carefully planned.
There is an interesting set of reading group discussion questions in the final pages.
My rating: 4.6
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