Local Woman Missing – Mary Kubica

When a missing child is found after 11 years, her father and brother adjust to their new reality.  But, rather than bringing her family together, she raises more questions.  Did her kidnapping and her mother’s death happen the way they had all thought?  Is she really who she says she is?  The answers to these questions end up tearing apart a neighborhood and expose secrets held for years.

Local Woman Missing, the seventh outing from local author Mary Kubica, moves the action to the Chicago suburbs (a thinly disguised Naperville).  I enjoyed this, for the most part, but the plot required some of the characters to act in very stupid ways in order to get where it needed to go.  That is hard to sustain over the long run and seems like something that can be tightened up in future outings.   Which, I’m sure there will be.