Book Review: Where They Found Her

Where They Found Her by Kimberly McCreight

Goodreads Summary:

From the author of the New York Times bestseller and 2014 Edgar and Anthony nominee Reconstructing Amelia comes another harrowing, gripping novel that marries psychological suspense with an emotionally powerful story about a community struggling with the consequences of a devastating discovery.

At the end of a long winter, in bucolic Ridgedale, New Jersey, the body of an infant is discovered in the woods near the town’s prestigious university campus. No one knows who the baby is, or how her body ended up out there. But there is no shortage of opinions.

When freelance journalist, and recent Ridgedale transplant, Molly Anderson is unexpectedly called upon to cover the story for the Ridegdale Reader, it’s a risk, given the severe depression that followed the loss of her own baby. But the bigger threat comes when Molly unearths some of Ridgedale’s darkest secrets, including a string of unreported sexual assaults that goes back twenty years.

Meanwhile, Sandy, a high school dropout, searches for her volatile and now missing mother, and PTA president Barbara struggles to help her young son, who’s suddenly having disturbing outbursts.

Told from the perspectives of Molly, Barbara, and Sandy, Kimberly McCreight’s taut and profoundly moving novel unwinds the tangled truth about the baby’s death revealing that these three women have far more in common than they realized. And that their lives are more intertwined with what happened to the baby than they ever could have imagined.

My review:

3/5 stars

This intriguing mystery has a new twist around every corner. Most mystery novels I can always predict what is coming up next but with this one I found myself gasping with surprise at a few turn of events.

The book is told from several different points of view, so it took me a while to figure out the relationships of the different characters and be able to keep them all straight.

McCreight did a great job of intertwining all the characters, she used flashbacks often to connect them as well. Sometimes I found myself unsure that it had transitioned to a flashback instead of part of the current story.