The Neighbor by Lisa Gardner
Detective D. D. Warren series #3. Thriller. Can be read as a stand-alone. See trigger warnings online.
A young mother, blond, pretty, disappears without a trace from her South Boston home, leaving her four-year-old daughter behind as the only witness. The husband is secretive and not fully sharing everything with the police. When Detective D. D. Warren arrives, she doesn’t believe she is getting full access or disclosure. There is something more going on and the child may know more than she’s capable of processing, let alone sharing. Is the daughter safe? What about the neighbors?

Oh, these stories are twisted! With twist you won’t see coming. Is it the husband? Is it someone else? It’s intense and compelling.
Some of this authors work is very hard to reconcile. It’s a hard world and she doesn’t go easy. The storytelling is phenomenal. ( )

My emotions are reeling, I admit the book was a slow start for me but once I kept reading the more it drew me in... going from theory to theory and even when I thought I was close to knowing what happened there was another twist, not huge but enough to be like whoa! Alone was my favorite in this series but this one just tied in right above it. ( )

Detective

Quick, easy read. Mostly entertaining, especially if you are the type of person who has watched a little Nancy Grace in your lifetime. I think the author introduced a few too many things and wasn't sure how to wrap everything up neatly so she just kind of ran around like a chicken with her head chopped off tying up loose ends in the last chapter or two of the book. Certainly not literature or high art but a decent book for the beach or airplane. ( )

When you read several of these in a row they start to feel a bit same-y. This one kept me guessing for a good long time, although the ending was rushed and could have done with a bit of fleshing out. ( )