My Wife is Missing

Strong Cat And Mouse Tale Actually Harmed By Final Reveals. There is no escaping writing about my feelings about this book without up front stating that while the first of two final reveals was a decent twist - not great, given the story to that point, but serviceable enough - the second one in particular was just lackluster, lazy, and didn't fit with the rest of the book at all. And for it to be the epilogue of the book only leaves the reader disappointed.

Which is sad, because the book before that point, and even during the course of the first reveal, is a nail biting cat and mouse game that had me invested from the very beginning. A man comes back to his hotel room in NYC from getting his family pizza... only to find barely a shred of evidence that they were ever there to begin with. From here we get a dual-timeline-ish tale where we see both husband and wife and the one's efforts to find the other while the other tries desperately to hide from the one seeking them, and this part of the tale is deftly told showing Palmer's usual skill at maintaining a solid level of tension throughout the tale. With a better ending, this tale could actually have been one of Palmer's stronger ones. As it is, it is simply middling. Which is still a great tale from a great storyteller, simply not this particular storyteller at the top of his game. Still very much recommended.

DJ has done it again! Drawn in in just a few short pages, it was a tough one to put down! Natalie has been suffering from insomnia and her husband Michael thought a short vacation to New York City would help their strained marriage. After running out to grab a pizza, Michael is shocked to find that when he returns, Natalie and their two young children, Addie and Bryce have vanished from their hotel room. He immediately fears they have been kidnapped but after seeing security footage of them leaving willingly, he's left to question what in his past has come back to haunt him and what could his wife have learned? We come to find that Michael isn't quite who his wife thinks he is... but what has Natalie imagined in her exhausted state and what is real? I have to admit I wasn't even close to having a clue as to where this was going!? Full of twists and turns, it kept me on the edge of my seat, dying to know what comes next! Highly recommended read and author!