L'avete letta in italiano a fine giugno, ora è il momento di quella inglese.
First of all, thanks to NetGalley and Lia from Mira Books for sending me an eARC in exchange for a honest review.
You have to know English isn’t my first language, so feel free to correct me if I make some mistakes while writing this review.
First of all, thanks to NetGalley and Lia from Mira Books for sending me an eARC in exchange for a honest review.You have to know English isn’t my first language, so feel free to correct me if I make some mistakes while writing this review.
Title: No One Saw
Series: A.L. McKittridge #2
Author: Beverly Long
Publication Date: June 30th 2020
Pages: 384 (Kindle Edition)
Publisher: Mira Books
Amazon Link: https://amzn.to/2URn0Ez
Plot: Nobody saw a thing. Or so they say…
Baywood police department detective A.L. McKittridge is no stranger to tough cases, but when five-year-old Emma Whitman disappears from her day care, there isn’t a single shred of evidence to go on. Neither the grandmother who dropped her off, nor the teacher whose care she was supposed to be in, can account for the missing child. There are no witnesses. No trace of where she might have gone. There’s only one thing A.L. and his partner, Rena Morgan, are sure of—somebody is lying.
With the clock ticking, A.L. and Rena are under extreme pressure as they discover their instincts are correct: all is not as it seems. The Whitmans are a family with many secrets, and A.L. and Rena will have to race to untangle a growing web of lies if they’re going to find the thread that leads them to Emma…before it’s too late.
Four months ago I read, always in advance thanks to Mira Books, the first book of this series - Ten Days Gone. It had been a book that had entertained me, made me wonder until the end who was the culprit and despite the somewhat hasty ending and some missing answers - but not particularly relevant for the purposes of the plot - I felt interested in a follow-up.
This time we have the case of a five-year-old girl who disappears from day care - the grandmother swears that she left her at the entrance and did not accompany her to class because her teacher was in the hall and therefore entrusted her to her by signing the attendance sheet, but on the other side we have the teacher who swears to have been in class all the time (with lots of other parents confirming her presence in the classroom) and that she has never seen the child all day.
Are they both telling the truth? Are they both lying? With two such different versions, one of them has to lie if you want to believe one of the two women - but which one of them?
A.L. and Rena start to investigate, but there's not much to start from.
They start questioning all the family members, the other teachers, the day care director, the parents of the other children - and many testimonials give reason to both women, but Emma Whitman continues to be missing.
A.L. and Rena, however, have no intention of giving up, digging deeply, turning every stone upside down, traveling miles to another town when a trail leads them there - when something makes them think they have finally taken the right path. But they come across many dead ends, many things that lead to nothing and so many lies - because there's not a single character here who does not lie at least about something.
Meanwhile the hours go by and still no sign of Emma.
If the first book found a balance between the case and the private lives of the two detectives because it served to present them, this second definitely leans more towards the case they are investigating - and I felt much more involved. However, I appreciated the updates on their private life - and even those who have not read the first one can understand the events and what they are talking about because there are enough basic elements that explain it - as it gives them that touch of humanity, but I preferred that this time there was a full-immersion in the case they were investigating.
Again I came almost to the end with no certainty as to who the culprit was - of course I had a couple of ideas and theories every now and then, however, they seemed to be disproved by some new element that emerged from the investigation and of course, everyone is lying therefore you can never point your finger at someone in particular for sure because so many people involved give the creeps to the reader or they sound suspicious enough - although perhaps some more than others and perhaps it seems predictable in retrospect, but at some point there's a trail that takes on so much solidity that you are convinced it may be the right one.
Again the ending is a little rushed - not so much for the case itself that it gets resolved with all the explanations without leaving a plot-hole, but more for another case that emerges far from Baywood where the readers find themselves involved and remain intrigued, but which case unfortunately remain without a resolution. It wouldn't have been their jurisdiction however, and I would have liked a little that A.L. and Rena would solve it, but on the other hand it would have made the case they worked on a little too "simplistic" and similar to others that I have already seen in multiple criminal TV shows.
For this second volume I decided to raise his vote by half a point - the style is always flowing and not too complicated by technical terms and it's true that it has no big twists and the investigation has a slow and methodical rhythm, but I must say the case involved me more than the previous one. Should a third book come out, I will not fail to read it.
Series: A.L. McKittridge #2
Author: Beverly Long
Publication Date: June 30th 2020
Pages: 384 (Kindle Edition)
Publisher: Mira Books
Amazon Link: https://amzn.to/2URn0Ez
Plot: Nobody saw a thing. Or so they say…
Baywood police department detective A.L. McKittridge is no stranger to tough cases, but when five-year-old Emma Whitman disappears from her day care, there isn’t a single shred of evidence to go on. Neither the grandmother who dropped her off, nor the teacher whose care she was supposed to be in, can account for the missing child. There are no witnesses. No trace of where she might have gone. There’s only one thing A.L. and his partner, Rena Morgan, are sure of—somebody is lying.
With the clock ticking, A.L. and Rena are under extreme pressure as they discover their instincts are correct: all is not as it seems. The Whitmans are a family with many secrets, and A.L. and Rena will have to race to untangle a growing web of lies if they’re going to find the thread that leads them to Emma…before it’s too late.
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Four months ago I read, always in advance thanks to Mira Books, the first book of this series - Ten Days Gone. It had been a book that had entertained me, made me wonder until the end who was the culprit and despite the somewhat hasty ending and some missing answers - but not particularly relevant for the purposes of the plot - I felt interested in a follow-up.
This time we have the case of a five-year-old girl who disappears from day care - the grandmother swears that she left her at the entrance and did not accompany her to class because her teacher was in the hall and therefore entrusted her to her by signing the attendance sheet, but on the other side we have the teacher who swears to have been in class all the time (with lots of other parents confirming her presence in the classroom) and that she has never seen the child all day.
Are they both telling the truth? Are they both lying? With two such different versions, one of them has to lie if you want to believe one of the two women - but which one of them?
A.L. and Rena start to investigate, but there's not much to start from.
They start questioning all the family members, the other teachers, the day care director, the parents of the other children - and many testimonials give reason to both women, but Emma Whitman continues to be missing.
A.L. and Rena, however, have no intention of giving up, digging deeply, turning every stone upside down, traveling miles to another town when a trail leads them there - when something makes them think they have finally taken the right path. But they come across many dead ends, many things that lead to nothing and so many lies - because there's not a single character here who does not lie at least about something.
Meanwhile the hours go by and still no sign of Emma.
If the first book found a balance between the case and the private lives of the two detectives because it served to present them, this second definitely leans more towards the case they are investigating - and I felt much more involved. However, I appreciated the updates on their private life - and even those who have not read the first one can understand the events and what they are talking about because there are enough basic elements that explain it - as it gives them that touch of humanity, but I preferred that this time there was a full-immersion in the case they were investigating.
Again I came almost to the end with no certainty as to who the culprit was - of course I had a couple of ideas and theories every now and then, however, they seemed to be disproved by some new element that emerged from the investigation and of course, everyone is lying therefore you can never point your finger at someone in particular for sure because so many people involved give the creeps to the reader or they sound suspicious enough - although perhaps some more than others and perhaps it seems predictable in retrospect, but at some point there's a trail that takes on so much solidity that you are convinced it may be the right one.
Again the ending is a little rushed - not so much for the case itself that it gets resolved with all the explanations without leaving a plot-hole, but more for another case that emerges far from Baywood where the readers find themselves involved and remain intrigued, but which case unfortunately remain without a resolution. It wouldn't have been their jurisdiction however, and I would have liked a little that A.L. and Rena would solve it, but on the other hand it would have made the case they worked on a little too "simplistic" and similar to others that I have already seen in multiple criminal TV shows.
For this second volume I decided to raise his vote by half a point - the style is always flowing and not too complicated by technical terms and it's true that it has no big twists and the investigation has a slow and methodical rhythm, but I must say the case involved me more than the previous one. Should a third book come out, I will not fail to read it.
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