Monday, March 15, 2021

Not My Boy

Not My Boy by Kelly Simmons, 260 pages

Freshly divorced Hannah has just moved into her sister's tony neighborhood when a six-year-old girl goes missing. Hannah's awkward son Miles quickly becomes a suspect, as does her brother-in-law, a situation that pits the usually-close sisters against one another.

This book has all the right ingredients to make a nail-biting thriller — great setting, lots of potential suspects, a wealth of buried secrets — but just wasn't quite baked properly. There were several elements that were hinted at throughout the book that never coalesced. Unfortunately, it ended up being a thriller without thrills.

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