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Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished without a trace. Her car was found, empty except for her two-year-old daughter Annabel, who was too young to say what happened. Her husband Charlie was arrested and tried for her murder, but acquitted. He's been living a quiet life raising Annabel (now Bel) ever since. But his father has dementia, so he sold the rights to his story (and by proxy Rachel's) to a ragtag true crime documentary crew.
As you know from the title, partway into filming, Rachel Price returns. This ought to answer all questions and be a happily ever after, right? But her family reunion is awkward to say the least. Her story doesn't quite add up. Was the timing of her return really a coincidence? Her prickly daughter Bel is suspicious and begins investigating...
This book is a ride and a half. It has something like eleven shocking twists, all of which basically make sense and create a coherent whole. At exactly the fifty percent mark, something big happens, and then it's all !!!!! from there on. This would be a very fun book to read with a friend .
Bel is a great narrator - angry, driven, sometimes mean, but very plausibly a teenager who's spent her whole life with the shadow of the mother she's never known hanging over her. There's some nice commentary on true crime.
I read this in a single gulp and look forward to reading more batshit thrillers from Jackson, who also wrote The Good Girl's Guide to Murder.
If you've read it, feel free to put spoilers in the comments. If you haven't read it, don't read the comments till you do.
Content notes: Domestic abuse, gaslighting, violence, dementia. They're treated seriously but the tone is "thriller," not "brutal realism."
As you know from the title, partway into filming, Rachel Price returns. This ought to answer all questions and be a happily ever after, right? But her family reunion is awkward to say the least. Her story doesn't quite add up. Was the timing of her return really a coincidence? Her prickly daughter Bel is suspicious and begins investigating...
This book is a ride and a half. It has something like eleven shocking twists, all of which basically make sense and create a coherent whole. At exactly the fifty percent mark, something big happens, and then it's all !!!!! from there on. This would be a very fun book to read with a friend .
Bel is a great narrator - angry, driven, sometimes mean, but very plausibly a teenager who's spent her whole life with the shadow of the mother she's never known hanging over her. There's some nice commentary on true crime.
I read this in a single gulp and look forward to reading more batshit thrillers from Jackson, who also wrote The Good Girl's Guide to Murder.
If you've read it, feel free to put spoilers in the comments. If you haven't read it, don't read the comments till you do.
Content notes: Domestic abuse, gaslighting, violence, dementia. They're treated seriously but the tone is "thriller," not "brutal realism."