This book was really enjoyable, and a quick read. I certainly wasn't expecting the ending. I did have a problem with some aspects- without giving too much away, I felt that the perspective from one of the children was just too confusing in the sense of the "unreliable narrator" gimmick. I also didn't want the ending to be what it was, but that's just a personal preference. It did keep me guessing, and most transitions between perspectives/time/place were smooth, although a couple were jarring and off-putting. Overall this book was worth reading, but also just one of those books I felt like could have been really great, but due to my subjective preferences, was just "good".

Mary Kubica has done it again and delivered a book that you just want to binge to know what happens at the end. While there wasn't really a significant twist, you always wondered what was going to happen next and how people were related to the event that happened. Absolutely looking forward to what Kubica writes next! Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with this ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

This was a great mystery/thriller. I'm going to start reading more books by Mary Kubica.

Thank you NetGalley for an ARC of this book.

Thank you Harlequin/Park Row for providing an eARC for review.


This book was FANTASTIC! Where is the movie? Have you read this? Put it on your list ASASP.

The twist and turns in this story. The multiple pov's made for great distractions. I was, at one point, changing who was guilty every other chapter. I eventually narrowed it down to the person with the most inconsistencies. I never saw the twist. I thought it was so clever how Kubica wrote the sweetest most concerned and strong character and then showed you how they can instantly change before your eye to someone you'd never expect. The acts committed weren't done out of mere fear, but it seemed like in the enduring of such fear morality died.

The multiple story lines kept you confused, but on edge. I took lots of notes knowing that I had to pay attention to all the minor details. It was an exhilarating time!

I found the book a little unbelievable at times--- distractedly so. My mother really enjoyed this book.

This was my book club’s pick in March. I don’t read the thriller/suspense genre much at all, so I wasn’t super excited to read this one. When I started, though, I couldn’t stop, and finished it in 2 days. It just sucked me in and I had to find out what happened. That said, there was a lot going on in this book…lots of characters and side stories to lead you astray from who the real killer might be. I liked it for the most part, but it got to be a little bit much. A fun read though!

A good mystery with plenty of twists and turns. There are a lot of reveals that the reader doesn’t see coming, but other things that the author starts and never comes back to. In all, it’s a pretty good mystery

🤍Local Woman Missing by @marykubica
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

This month @theglossbookclub read a thriller 🕵🏼‍♀️ and I was HOOKED. There were so many unexpected twists and turns throughout this read. I was suspicious of nearly every character at one point except maybe Kate (tbh she was just so nice which maybe shouldn’t throw me off my suspicions….)

I wasn’t sure who was responsible for the crimes but it was a shocking reveal & ending.

If you love thrillers and haven’t yet read Local Woman Missing, you need to add it to your TBR asap 📚

I loved this books. Such a plot driven story with amazing characters and a twist i never saw coming. I highly recommend!

This was a pretty disturbing book to read - children being abused and two murders in a neighborhood. I just wanted it over so I didn’t have to think about it for a long time. Once you get to a certain point in the plot (maybe 80%), you can see where it’s going. I guess it is interesting about all these crazy neighbors and the problems they have with each other.

This was a pretty disturbing book to read - children being abused and two murders in a neighborhood. I just wanted it over so I didn’t have to think about it for a long time. Once you get to a certain point in the plot (maybe 80%), you can see where it’s going. I guess it is interesting about all these crazy neighbors and the problems they have with each other.

Dark and suspenseful novel that keeps right reading until the very end. I try to predict the ending of a book prior to finishing but Mary Kubica doesn't disappointment because I completely got the ending wrong. I would recommend this book to mystery and thriller lovers alike. So far I have enjoyed every book she has written.

This mystery kept me guessing all the way to the end. There were so many twists and turns. The characters were very well developed. I grew to dislike many of them and to love many of them. And boy, was I taken by surprise at the ending! Great story!

This is one of my favorite thrillers I’ve read in a while, and definitely my favorite so far from this author! The twists and turns in this were unmatched, and I could not put it down for the last third of the book as the story unraveled. The constant downpours of rain described in the book really helped to set the scene and make it feel very dark and spooky. So good!

This is one of those page turners that you just can't put down. Kubica does a great job of leading you towards certain assumptions but twisting your perceptions of characters that you had grown to love to reveal the answers to the mysteries right at the end. So many likable characters in this book that you want to see a happy ending. Highly recommend!

Local Women Missing drew me in with the terrifying perspective of a young girl being held in captivity finally escaping. The multiple view points and back story was harder to get into, but overall a solid mystery/thriller that keeps you guessing and a shocking twist ending that you'll love to analyze for its unlikelihood.

The opening of this thriller hit all the right notes: rapid switching between narrators and timelines, mystery narrators, kidnapping, murder, disappearances, and secrets. I won’t go too far into plot points because part of the point of a thriller is not knowing what comes next, so I’ll defer to the publisher on that front. The tension was well built and swelled for the first two-thirds of the novel, but the conclusion didn’t make good on the promises implicit in the early parts of the story. Some plotlines fell off entirely, and others seemed to take the easiest and shortest way out, rather than using the complex set up that the author had me so invested in, which was frustrating.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher for an honest review via NetGalley.

** spoiler alert ** This book started out with a great hook that kept me turning pages and I stayed up too late several nights because I was excited to see who done it. Now that I have finished the book, I can safely say that there were several story lines that didn’t get wrapped up or even feel like they needed to be there (who cares about Meredith’s relationship with the neighbor’s husband and was he actually the one Shelby was meeting that night?).

As details of what happened began to surface, they all left me feeling very “huh?” at how unrealistic it all felt. When Delilah first came home, who knew that Leo’s intuition that she wasn’t the same girl who left was spot on? I thought it was metaphorical – whatever happened to you turned you into someone else, but nope, turns out that it was actually a different girl. What?!? Why?!? And the reveal that Bea hit Shelby with her car and forced Meredith to help her hide the body in the woods…this simply didn’t feel like a plausible decision that Meredith would go along with and left me wondering how her car had no damage to show that would have raised any suspicions. And then Bea murdered Meredith and then hid Delilah in her garage/music studio? And once they found Delilah, she re-joined her father and brother and lived happily ever after? I’m not normally one to pick apart whether a story feels real, because I understand that a reader needs to suspend belief when reading fiction, but this was too much for me and I felt like there are so many ways this could have gone that would have made for a better thriller.

Her first book was amazing.. and unfortunately I feel that each one is slowly becoming more cookie cutter and more predictable as they are published.

I listened to this book as an audiobook and initially I was really struggling going back and forth between all the characters and trying to keep track of what was happening. I think it would have been easier to read.

There were some good twists in the story. We start off hearing about Delilah who is locked in the basement in the dark for an indeterminable time.

Meredith, Delilah’s mom has committed suicide.

We also learn that one of Meredith’s past client's Shelby is dead and was killed by her husband. Her husband has been in jail for the past 11 years.

So are these missing and dead people connected? Or is this a local town with bad luck?

So are these missing and dead people connected? Or is this a local town with bad luck?