So I have read lots of Jackie Kabler novels and loved them so when this came up on NetGalley I did not hesitate in requesting the novel and I was so excited to see that I was accepted and started the novel as soon as I could.

Having loved Kabler's previous novels before, I was quite disappointed to not enjoy this as much as the other books. The novel opens with parents in the playground waiting to wave Class 3B on their school trip and we are introduced to a few different characters. Class 3B are off on the trip but the schools new van isn't working so they have to get one in which is definitely more run down. The parents wait for the return of their children but 3B have vanished.

The characters were flawed and unlikeable and I just could not immerse myself into this novel like I have with other reads by Jackie Kabler.

For me personally, there was nothing much to hold my attention and I found myself skipping parts of the text.

Thanks to Jackie Kabler, Netgalley and the publishers for allowing me a copy of this novel in exchange for my honest review.

Missing child thrillers are ten a penny these days, but an entire missing class? That had to be worth a read.

Among the parents living in the affluent Cotswolds catchment area of Littleford Primary School are a TV chat show host (with the unlikely name of Reynold Lyon), a celebrity chef, an ex-footballer... there's plenty of money around, but not everyone is rich and famous.

Class 3B head off on a day trip with their teachers, but their bus never arrives back at the school. How can ten children, four adults and the bus they're travelling in really just vanish into thin air? The world is soon watching this extraordinary story as the local police struggle to find any leads. Meanwhile, the bereft parents are at a loss about what to do, at least until the text messages start to arrive. Someone has a secret, and it's coming back to haunt them...

Unlikely though it is, the story of the missing children clearly made some impression on me, because I actually had a dream about it one night when halfway through the book.

This was my first read by Jackie Kabler and I enjoyed it - the premise was implausible but intriguing, though I never felt a vast amount of suspense. There are various secrets, but none of them are that earth shattering when revealed, and I wasn't enchanted by the ending, but this was a good read overall. Thanks for the opportunity to read and review an advance copy.

Thank you to NetGalley, Jackie Kabler & HarperCollins UK, One More Chapter for an arc of The Vanishing of Class 3B in exchange for an honest review. This review is wholly my own & may not be reproduced.

As a parent, this would be one of my worst nightmares. A bus full of children and teachers leave on a field trip, but as the parents gather to collect their children after the trip, the bus never shows up. The children & teachers have vanished.

Expected Release is May 11, 2023

This story was just “ok” for me. The synopsis sounded interesting enough for me to want to read it, but the actual story fell a little short for me. I didn’t dislike it, but I didn’t really like it either.

I wasn’t a fan of many of the characters, the writing, the pacing – it was all just a bit off for me. I definitely think it could have been better than it was.

I’m not recommending it, but not telling you not to read it either. Everyone is different and I can definitely see some people liking this one.

For me, I’m being generous with 3/5 Stars.

I loved this book and raced through it! Ostensibly it's about an ordinary field trip with several children and three teachers, but they disappear and even the bus is missing! When the ransom note demands $5o,0000 all the parents meet to discuss. But of course there are secrets, lies, and complicated lives behind each of these families and even they aren't sure who is targeted or why. It's a great cat-and-mouse game that moves along at breakneck speed until the end!
Thanks to NetGalley for this ARC!

This was a good story well told but just didn't really jump out and drag me in like I thought it might

Jackie Kabler is always good for a psychological/domestic thriller and this one is good with a vastly different premise than previous novels. A mass kidnapping from a private school. What follows? Interesting characters we love to hate, ones to roll our eyes at and a few to feel sorry for under the circumstances. They all have secrets they don’t want revealed, but whose secret is the biggest which the kidnappers want to expose. Plenty of suspects to choose from!

This was…not my favorite. All of these characters were so messed up that I didn’t have anyone to root for. I really wasn’t anxious over what was happening with the kids, the suspense was not killing me. I found myself skimming large portions of the chapters involving the police who were investigating, they were pretty oblivious. The parents weren’t believable and the plot points didn’t make me want to continue. Overall this isn’t a story I’d recommend.

Thank you to the publisher for the ARC.

Compelling plot. The first half was so fast paced I couldn’t put it down but it definitely slowed down a bit in the second half. Lots of surprising twists and turns. Thanks to NetGalley and HarperCollins UK for the ARC.

It's a well written book indeed, but somehow I didnt feel totally invested in the story. I managed to predict quite a bit of the way things were going to unravel, which was disappointing.
But altogether a good read, and a story that could well be true, Thanks to NetGalley for a review copy.

A good read, which kept you hanging on. This book had a good pace throughout. I will look out for more books by this author.

Really enjoyed this novel by Jackie Kabler. My first read by her but definitely not my last. What a great cast of characters that kept me totally invested in the story. Lots of secrets, lies and revenge. So many twists, turns and great reveals.
Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book

With the The Vanishing of Class 3B, Jackie Kabler has pulled off quite a story. At a time when the publishing world is full of good thrillers, the concept of the book is itself is quite unique - and it works brilliantly as a hook.

A group of parents in a quaint english town drop their children off at their school for a day-long excursion to a nearby wildlife park. Everyone is in high spirits and looking forward to the outing. But when the parents arrive to pick up the kids that evening, the children and their teachers are nowhere to be found.

As the hours pass without any sign of them, a massive effort is soon underway to locate the missing students and their caregivers. Not least because several of the children who live in this low-crime, high net value location have very wealthy parents, some of whom are also celebrities.

That, and the sensational nature of the events unfolding means that the case swiftly hits the global headlines, generating worldwide interest. Meanwhile on the ground in Littleford, police efforts to locate the children continue to prove fruitless, and tensions rise as the unexplained disappearance goes on, day after day.

To make matters worse, while no ransom demands are immediately forthcoming - adding to the general confusion about the motive behind the kidnapping (if that is what this is) - there are cryptic references in the communications received from those responsible which leave the authorities bewildered. Suspicion falls on one person after another, but in each instance the pieces don't quite seem to fit.

The gradual disintegration of individual relationships - from friendships to business partnerships to marriages - tears at the fabric of the previously tight-knit group of friends and neighbours based in Littleford. In the process, hints begin to emerge about the secrets lurking beneath the apparently smooth surface of life in the town. The picture-perfect community of Littleford, it would seem, is in fact far from perfect.

But as speculation grows fevered, there is still no clear motive behind what increasingly looks like a well-planned crime. Nor are there any answers to the most pressing questions: where are the children of Class 3B? Who snatched them away from their comfortable homes and their doting parents? And why were they taken in the first place?

To find out, you'll have to pick up a copy of this rewarding read. If you're looking for satisfyingly twisty thriller, look no further!

The premise of this drew me in. The sheer amount of emotions that appear in this book are well characterised. The different narratives are spectacular. This book was only let down by the very easy to guess ending.

I would like to thank the author, the publisher and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read an ARC of this book. I read this book in one sitting, I was gripped from the beginning and had to finish it. I will be recommending this book to everyone I know.

In The Vanishing of Class 3B by Jackie Kabler, DSU Sadie Stewart and DCI Daniel Sharma are on the hunt for a missing bus of 10 children and 4 teachers. This small town full of worried parents has so many twists! The characters had a lot of secrets to hide, and it was fun to read the storyline and try to figure out what the secrets were and how things would turn out.

I enjoyed this author's writing style as it kept me engaged with the storyline, and the characters were interesting and well-developed with many layers. I did kind of guess one of the culprits early on but not the reason why.

I would recommend this book and this author. I will check out more books by this author.

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3.5 stars

This is my second book by Jackie Kabler and I love how she gives us different POV's. This is something that makes her books really interesting.
This one was okay. I thought there would be a major secret that one of the parents had. What could they possibly had done to have a bus full of kids kidnapped? The two affairs were really predictable, I have a feeling that there had to be at least one as a secret from the parents. The secret child of Reynold Cally? That wasn't that much of a surprise. Also, at the end when Reynold was asking Oscar what did he do to him it was predictable that he was also his kid. Of course, Oscar and Cally had to be twins.
The beginning of the book was promising and it's not a bad book, but I just wished that at the end we had also the chapters and POV's from some other parents. The plot twists were good, but most of them predictable. Since it was discovered that it was Reynold's secret it's like all the other characters were not important anymore and we got a few sentences from the author just to wrap up the story. But still, I enjoyed it and I would recommend it.

Thank you NetGalley and Harper Collins UK,One More Chapter for the ARC!

A busload of children and their teachers disappear on a field trip. They soon discover that it was no accident and that someone has a secret and must pay for it.
This intriguing beginning is developed during the novel by alternating chapters with different points of view. On the one hand the parents, more than one with things to hide, on the other the police, the kidnappers and the children themselves. And perhaps so many pov is a part of what has not quite convinced me. There are several unexpected twists and turns that give it a touch of interest.
All in all the book is entertaining and satisfying.

Well written and easy to read. Compelling plot which will have you sleuthing away from the get-go, looking for clues and muddy motivations every which way.

Unfortunately, despite the intriguin premise, I found that the twists and turns were a little too simple to work out, which can then leave you stewing as you wait for the plot to catch up with your (likely correct) guesswork. Once I realised that I was on the right track, the wind came out of the sails somewhat.

A good read for a lazy Sunday afternoon and about the right length for a binge.

Its got to be every parents worst nightmare, when your child [in fact the entire class!] does not return from a school day trip and there is absolutely no word from them.
I found it an easy, engaging, gripping read and the suspense slowly builds as the parents' personalities and secrets are revealed, leading to a dramatic conclusion.

Where do I start with The Vanishing of Class 3B, I could not put it down. I absolutely loved it, it was fast paced and gripped me right to the end. I didn’t work out who the kidnappers were until the story started to reveal the answers which is a plus and I loved the twist right at the end. A definite 5 star rating for me.
Thank you to Harper Collins Uk, One More Chapter and Jackie Kabler for an early copy of this novel in exchange for an unbiased and honest review.