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A thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger about the hunt for a missing girl and one communityâ??s intricate yet fragile bonds.
â??[A] nail-biting nuanced whodunit.â?ťâ??People /> Everybody knows everybody in The Hollows, a quaint, charming town outside of New York City. Itâ??s a place where neighbors keep an eye on one anotherâ??s kids, where people say hello in the grocery store, and where high school cliques and antics are never quite forgotten. As a child, Maggie found living under the microscope of small-town life stifling. But as a wife and mother, she has happily returned to The Hollowsâ??s insular embrace. As a psychologist, her knowledge of family histories provides powerful insights into her patientsâ?? lives. So when the girlfriend of her teenage son, Rick, disappears, Maggieâ??s intuitive gift proves useful to the caseâ??and also dangerous.
Eerie parallels soon emerge between Charleneâ??s disappearance and the abduction of another local girl that shook the community years ago when Maggie was a teenager. The investigation has her husband, Jones, the lead detective on the case, acting strangely. Rick, already a brooding teenager, becomes even more withdrawn. In a town where the past is always present, nobody is above suspicion, not even a son in the eyes of his father.
As she tries to reassure him that Rick embodies his father in all of the important ways, Maggie realizes this might be exactly what Jones fears most. Determined to uncover the truth, Maggie pursues her own leads into Charleneâ??s disappearance and exposes a long-buried town secretâ??one that could… (more)
Everybody knows Everybody in The Hollows. A rebellious girlfriend of Maggies son disappears and her husband Jones becomes chief investigator. Questioning a past girl disappearance. Brilliantly plotted witnlh psychological insite ( )
Hmm. Back in February I gave this four stars but didn't write a review. It's only July and I can't remember one damn thing about this book, so I am deducting a star. It doesn't belong so high on my list if it made such a fleeting impression!
I thought this was a decent read - interesting but inconsistent. Someone said they found it meandering and I have to agree. There were tense moments and then long, slow moving scenes between. I think it would have been tighter with better editing - a pet peeve of mine. This was the second book by this author that I have read and I enjoyed the other book much more so I will still look for more by her. ( )
You have a small town, Maggie, a psychologist and wife to the police detective. Their classmates in high school all with their untold secret related to a missing teen. Now as adults, another missing teen and another generation. I can't say the story held my interest. I can say the prologue was intriguing. ( )
Prologue: When Jones Cooper was younger, he didn't believe in mistakes.
The sound of the screen door slamming never failed to cause a happy lift in her heart that was immediately followed by a sinking, the opening of a small empty place.
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And how the connections between them were as terribly fragile as they were indelible.
A thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger about the hunt for a missing girl and one communityâ??s intricate yet fragile bonds.
â??[A] nail-biting nuanced whodunit.â?ťâ??People
Everybody knows everybody in The Hollows, a quaint, charming town outside of New York City. Itâ??s a place where neighbors keep an eye on one anotherâ??s kids, where people say hello in the grocery store, and where high school cliques and antics are never quite forgotten. As a child, Maggie found living under the microscope of small-town life stifling. But as a wife and mother, she has happily returned to The Hollowsâ??s insular embrace. As a psychologist, her knowledge of family histories provides powerful insights into her patientsâ?? lives. So when the girlfriend of her teenage son, Rick, disappears, Maggieâ??s intuitive gift proves useful to the caseâ??and also dangerous.
Eerie parallels soon emerge between Charleneâ??s disappearance and the abduction of another local girl that shook the community years ago when Maggie was a teenager. The investigation has her husband, Jones, the lead detective on the case, acting strangely. Rick, already a brooding teenager, becomes even more withdrawn. In a town where the past is always present, nobody is above suspicion, not even a son in the eyes of his father.
As she tries to reassure him that Rick embodies his father in all of the important ways, Maggie realizes this might be exactly what Jones fears most. Determined to uncover the truth, Maggie pursues her own leads into Charleneâ??s disappearance and exposes a long-buried town secretâ??one that could
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Everybody knows everybody in The Hollows, a quaint, charming town outside of New York City. It’s a place where neighbors keep an eye on each other’s kids, where people say hello in the grocery store, and where high school cliques and antics are never quite forgotten. As a kid, Maggie found the microscope of small town life stifling. But as a wife and mother, she’s happily returned to The Hollows’ insular embrace. As a psychologist, her knowledge of family histories provides powerful insights into her patients’ lives. So when the girlfriend of her teenage son Rick disappears, Maggie’s intuitive gift proves useful to the case – and also dangerous.
Eerie parallels soon emerge between Charlene’s disappearance and the abduction of another local girl that shook the community when Maggie was a teenager. The investigation has her husband, Jones, the lead detective on the case, acting strangely. Rick, already a brooding teenager, becomes even more withdrawn. In a town where the past is always present, nobody is above suspicion, not even a son in the eyes of his father.
"I know how a moment can spiral out of control," Jones says to a shocked Maggie, as he searches Rick’s room for incriminating evidence. "How the consequences of one careless action can cost you everything."
As she tries to reassure him that Rick embodies his father in all of the important ways, Maggie realizes this might be exactly what Jones fears most. Determined to uncover the truth, Maggie pursues her own leads into Charlene’s disappearance and exposes a long-buried town secret – one that could destroy everything she holds dear.
Maggie weet niet wat ze hoort als haar man, hoofdrechercheur bij de politie, denkt dat hun zoon Ricky iets met Charlene's verdwijning te maken kan hebben. Ze probeert hem gerust te stellen door te zeggen dat Ricky ondanks zijn zwarte kleren en tatoeages toch echt een zoon van zijn vader is. Dan beseft ze dat juist dát Jones' grootste angst is. Wat houdt haar man voor haar verborgen? Heeft zijn geheim Charlene in gevaar gebracht en Ricky verdacht gemaakt? Kent ze haar man eigenlijk wel? De geheimen rond de verdwijning van een ander meisje, twintig jaar geleden, vormen een bedreiging voor alles wat Maggie lief is. Tegen de zin van velen, die het verleden liever laten rusten, gaat Maggie op zoek naar de waarheid voordat de leugens haar wereld doen instorten.
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