What She Knew

What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I've heard a lot of great things about this one & I'm just like Meh... ok then.
I was anxious to find out 'whodunit?' since it was after all a mystery - but it sort of got on my nerves. I felt like a part of the story just drug on & even caught myself just skimming pages towards the end because it was getting too long in areas.
It wasn't awful, it wasn't finger gripping suspense - it was just 'meh' to me.

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Rachel Jenner is walking in a Bristol park with her eight-year-old son, Ben, when he asks if he can run ahead. It’s an ordinary request on an ordinary Sunday afternoon, and Rachel has no reason to worry—until Ben vanishes.

Police are called, search parties go out, and Rachel, already insecure after her recent divorce, feels herself coming undone. As hours and then days pass without a sign of Ben, everyone who knew him is called into question, from Rachel’s newly married ex-husband to her mother-of-the-year sister. Inevitably, media attention focuses on Rachel too, and the public’s attitude toward her begins to shift from sympathy to suspicion. 

As she desperately pieces together the threadbare clues, Rachel realizes that the greatest dangers may lie not in the anonymous strangers of every parent’s nightmares, but behind the familiar smiles of those she trusts the most.

Where is Ben? The clock is ticking...