99 Red Balloons
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Two girls go missing, decades apart. What would you do if one was your daughter? When eight-year-old Grace goes missing from a sweetshop on the way home from school, her mother Emma is plunged into a nightmare. Her family rallies around, but as the police hunt begins, cracks begin to emerge. What are the secret emails sent between Emma's husband and her sister? Why does her mother take so long to join the search? And is Emma really as innocent as she seems? Meanwhile, ageing widow Maggie Taylor sees Grace's picture in the newspaper. It's a photograph that jolts her from the pain of her existence into a spiralling obsession with another girl - the first girl who disappeared... This is a gripping psychological thriller with a killer twist that will take your breath away.
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Ah this book is a rollercoaster of emotions! It's tense, it's sad at times, it's got some great twists and I genuinely cried happy tears too.
This is not your standard “mystery thriller”, it's got a deeper level of emotion, family, grief, pain and hope.
Looking at the characters, I really liked Maggie and her friendship with Jim, it just touched my heart so much, and the sisterhood between Emma and Steph was so strong despite how the story unfolded.
My only criticism can't really be fully explained because of spoliers but I felt one of the characters wasn't portrayed consistently throughout. I understand this may be deliberate to reflect his mental state but it came off as disjointed and out of place, but it didn't distract much from the story.
I would definitely recommend this to fans of mysteries with a bit more substance.
