I realize that the people who populate these types of novels must act in a fashion that defies belief. The second child is held within earshot of her own home but, even as she passes into the teen years, she can’t figure out any method at all of attracting the attention of her family, or anyone else for that matter. So why bother?Īnd to do it for 11 years? Beyond the realm of plausibility. Plus they don’t interact with the child but keep her locked in a completely dark basement. There is only 11 dreadful years of maintaining the child and all the problems that ensue. In the first case there is no apparent reason to keep the child after the kidnappers realize there is not going to be a nationwide hunt for the child. And she won’t talk to the police because she has a sense of duty(?) towards her “Friend” who not only drove over the victim, but was so desperate to avoid being caught she forced the first woman into aiding her in hiding the body.īut most stunning is the two kidnappings themselves. A wife will talk about anything with her husband except her role in an accidental death. A couple kidnap a girl because they want to feel a sense of notoriety that surrounds a similar kidnapping. The motives of the villains, and there are several, are mind numbingly stupid. I know, if she didn’t behave in this totally inconsistent manner there would be no story, but still. But when THE crises occurs, the accidental killing of a person, the central character acts against everything we have learned about her. The actions of the main characters, almost entirely women, flow in one direction. Not knowing what was in store for me, I read this book.
My best guess is it allows the reader to think, since this happened to the women in the story, it can’t happen to me.Ī type of whistling past the graveyard effect. What I don’t understand why they are so popular among women.
I know there is a very large audience for novels where terrible things happen to women. Local Woman Missing (2021) by Mary Kubica.
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