Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica

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Written in different timelines with three important characters narrating the story is a likeable formula. 

Meredith is a doula [a person who provides physical, emotional and informational support without being in a professional capacity of a doctor]. She has some good clientele but not all clients are good. One such patient was Shelby, who consults Meredith very late into her pregnancy. Shelby leads a complicated life and with time and emotional involvement, Meredith sort of starts sympathizing with her a lot. Was Meredith being blind about the person Shelby was? Did she know that maybe Shelby was not all that she was trying to portray?

Meredith is married to a good man, Josh and they have two wonderful children - Delilah and Leo. 

Kate and Bee [Beatrice], are the loving couple who are neighbours to Meredith. But one night, in a turn of events, every possible equation changes for Meredith and Bee. Few pages later, Meredith and her daughter, Delilah are declared missing. Where could they have gone? How they have just left the scene and disappeared into thin air?

In the present timeline, 11 years later from the time of the mother-daughter disappearance, a young girl has escaped from cruel captivity. Who is she and what is her connection to Josh and Leo, now that Meredith is still not in the picture? Could this girl be Delilah who was kidnapped or just made to disappear 11 years ago? Where was she all these years and why in such a bad condition - she seems hurt, physically and mentally. 

As Josh and Leo, Kate and Bee grapple with the situation, we are led to ask so many questions. Narrated by Brittany Pressley, Jennifer Jill Araya Gary Tiedemann and Jesse Vilinsky, this was a quick read. I was sad for the kids who went through so much. I was irritated with the decisions adults take that jeopardize everything they have. Mary Kubica is slowly becoming my favourite author to pick from the lot. 

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