Title: ONE LAST CHILD
Series: Tallman’s Valley Detectives #1
Author: Anni Taylor
Publisher: BooksGoSocial
Publish Date: 01.15.2020
Category /Genre: Mystery & Thrillers, Women’s Fiction
Recommended for: 16+ due to psychological terror
Grammar/editing: received as an
unedited ARC / errors excused
Received from: BooksGoSocial
Goodreads link: One Last Child
Date completed: 01.13.2020
Description from the publisher:
It was summer in the mountains when
five small children vanished from their nursery school picnic. The heat was
stifling that day, the tinkle of an ice-cream van in the air.
Three and a half years later, in the
dead of winter, the children are returned to their families... one by one.
All except for Ivy - the granddaughter of homicide detective Kate Wakeland. The other four children say Ivy is dead.
Speculation grows that the
kidnappings were revenge for an offender that Detective Wakeland put in jail
years before.
She engages in a battle of wits
between herself, the kidnapper and the cold, vast expanse of mountains in
between.
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ONE LAST CHILD is the first book in
the Tallman’s Valley Detectives
series. These will need to be read in
the order of release.
The storyline reminded me of another
Australian novel that I read when I was a teen, PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK by Joan
Lindsay. In it, several teen girls and a
teacher go missing while picnicking on Valentine’s Day. They are never found.
Nineteen three-year-old tots and
three teachers from the local preschool have gone to the neighborhood park for
a Teddy Bear Picnic. Five children
vanish with only a single button left behind.
The psychological strain is so well
written for so many of those involved – the parents, the detectives, and those
being questioned – but not to the point of being bogged down. There are great clues, the ones we need and
the ones that lead to dead ends! I loved
chasing them down alongside Kate… and feeling her hope and dismays.
I enjoyed this who-dun-it and I’ll
be watching for the next book in this series.
Note: While I received this book as a gifted ARC
via NetGalley, my opinions are my own and are given freely.
Tallman’s Valley Detectives Series:
1.
One Last Child
Also from Ann Taylor:
·
The Game You Played
·
Poison Orchids
·
The Six
·
Stranger in the Woods
#OneLastChild #NetGalley
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