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Where They Found Her by Kimberly McCreight Book Review

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Where They Found Her by Kimberly McCreight Book Review

Published April 14, 2015

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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.

Where They Found Her by Kimberly McCreight Book Review

This book was more than I expected. I thought I was in for a nice thriller that I could piece together. I was wrong.

Where They Found Her is incredibly layered, small college town drama, secrets & complicated interwoven relationships. If you know me, you know theses are some of my favorite aspects of books. Kimberly’s writing style reminded me of a darker Liane Moriarty & coming from her #1 fangirl, that’s a huge compliment.

I read this on Mother’s Day weekend, & this book is ripe with the intricacies of mother/daughter relationships. Where They Found Her is a fast read, with a few twists & turns I certainly didn’t see coming & leaves the reader with a sense closure.

THE VERDICT

I was Really Into This book & definitely going to add more books by Kimberly to my TBR pile. This pace, the darkness & the woods reminded me of What She Knew by Gilly MacMillan.

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About the Author: Kimberly McCreight

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Kimberly McCreight is the New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia, which was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, and Alex Awards and was called Entertainment Weekly’s Favorite Book of the Year. Reconstructing Amelia has been optioned for film by HBO and Nicole Kidman’s Blossom Films. Ms. McCreight’s second adult novel, Where They Found Her, was a USA Today bestseller and a Kirkus Best Mystery of the Year. The Outliers, the first book in her teen trilogy, also a New York Times bestseller, has been optioned for film by Lionsgate, Mandeville, and Reese Witherspoon’s Pacific Standard. The second book in the trilogy, The Scattering, will be published in May 2017Ms. McCreight attended Vassar College and graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two daughters.

 

Momma, wife, baker, reader & smart ass. I am Really Into doughnuts, inside jokes, trash TV, pizza, 48 Hours & George Michael.

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