When Jocelyn was seven, her beloved nanny Hannah disappeared without a trace. Now, 30 years later, Jocelyn has a child of her own and finds herself returning to her childhood home after the death of her husband. When a skeleton is discovered in the lake on the property, and then a woman shows up claiming to be Hannah, Jo starts to wonder what really happened when her nanny vanished all those years ago.
I seem to be in a bit of a reading slump because I found this book to be just meh. It started off great! I love the premise about a missing person and then a body is found and we don’t know if the body is the missing person or not. Add in someone showing up claiming to be the missing person and you get a great psychological thriller. But then the book kind of tapered off.
For me, this book just plodded along. It seemed to go nowhere and there were parts of the plot that I didn’t understand what they had to do with the overall story. I thought there was no tension or urgency; there were no surprises or anything that made me sit up and say wow.
I found none of the characters to be likable, except for Jocelyn’s 10-year old daughter Ruby, so I didn’t really care what happened to them. I thought Jocelyn was the most annoying character and was incredibly naive and kept putting her daughter at risk.
Once again, this was another book that was a miss for me.
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