Then it starts. Breaking news: there's a hostage situation developing in London. The police arrive, and tell her Luke is involved. But he isn't a hostage. Her husband - doting father, eternal optimist - is the gunman.
What she does next is crucial. Because only she knows what the note he left behind that morning says... (Pub Date: Feb 25 2025)
3.5 rounded up to 4.
Camilla is about to return to work after long months taking care of her newborn, which left her in a state of torpor despite all the help from Luke, her loving husband. It's exactly that state that prevented her from noticing him leave that morning, from knowing what he was up to. That until the police find her at work and reveal Luke has possibly kidnapped three people and holds them at gunpoint.
This was a gripping read. The way the plot is presented to us makes it easy to understand Camilla, to feel that nightmare could as well be happening to us. It's suffocating and exciting.
My big problem with it are some obvious flaws. This wasn't the first book I've read by the author (though it's maybe the first I review, I think?), so I knew what to expect, that as we got to the climax and denouement, the book wouldn't be as amazing as the first half or more. I think it took more work to make sure the explanations worked, there were ways cover those small holes here and there, but knowing the author, it wasn't the perfect story I was expecting. This is more about the experience, the knot in your stomach that will give you Camilla's path to finding out what happened to Luke. As if it's you in her place. And that's where McAllister excels.
Great read to close my year, though it made me unable to do anything else but read and read and read.
Honest review based on an ARC provided by Netgalley. Many thanks to the publisher for this opportunity.
Rating: 4 out of 5.
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