Amelia and Kylee were safely asleep upstairs when their cousin Grace (who had been babysitting them) went missing several years ago. Other than a smear of blood in the kitchen, there's been no trace of her in their chunk of rural Missouri, nor anywhere else they can think of. Now, as teenagers, the sisters are torn between doing as Grace wished and leaving town to seek their future elsewhere, or staying in tiny Beaumont, where their aunt keeps hoping for some sign of Grace. When a body is discovered nearby, the sisters start their own investigation into Grace's disappearance in the hopes that they'll find some closure and be able to move on with their lives.
This is just about the slowest burning thriller I've come across, and it's a fairly depressing one. That said, the characters are well-realized, and the only thing that keeps me from fully recommending this one is the end, which gets a bit wonky, given the lead-up to it. Still, not a bad book, as long as you're OK with a stripped-bare version of rural Missouri.
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