Since She's Been Gone

I just finished Since she's been gone by Sagit Schwartz and here is my review.

Beatrice “Beans” Bennett is called into work early. As a psychologist, sometimes you have to open up early to see patients. When she invites the woman into her office, she doesn't want to sit and talk. She wants to warn Beans that her mother, the woman she thought died when she was 15, is still alive and is in imminent danger. Then she flees.

Bringing the death of her mother back to the forefront of her mind has Beans slipping back into a past she left behind, an eating disorder that could have killed her had she not overcome it but she has to know whether the woman is telling the truth.

The more she digs, the more she learns why her mother may have gone into hiding and she did it to protect her family. The things she learned, the things her mother lived through all stems from an opioid crisis from a pharma company that will do anything to keep their secrets buried and they don't care who they have to silence to do it.


What an excellent book. It was well written, clever and had me on the edge of my seat the whole time. I really enjoyed the build up and the conclusion. I haven't read any books with anorexia in them before but I would assume the author did their research on it as it played a pretty large role in the plot.

I liked Beans. She had been through hell and you could feel her need for answers and the sadness that rippled from the pages. The more we learned about her mothers past, the more it all made sense and it was well done. I did feel the ending was a bit rushed and seemed a bit convenient at the end but I'm a sucker for HEA so I could overlook that.

Definitely worth the read.

4 stars. Thank you @netgalley and @crookedlanebooks for my gifted copy. Out now!!