Her father is delighted to see her but her brother isn’t liking the attention she is receiving as well as being unable to put his finger on something that doesn’t feel right about her. Delilah has been missing for eleven years, along with her mother, midwife Meredith. When a young girl escapes from the clutches of her kidnapper and finds refuge at a nearby property she gives her name as Delilah Dickey. But the direction the story takes following Delilah's brave escape immediately starts to water down any goodwill found at the start.Local Woman Missing is a twisty thriller/mystery set in a small community. I wanted to love this, I really did! The beginning hooked me so completely, and Kubica's writing was so absorbing, that I couldn't read it fast enough. However, from there things (disappointingly) shift character perspectives and hop between two timelines 11 years apart, and the story begins its downward slope. When it comes to sequences like this, Kubica is incredible. Together these scenes make for a riveting start to the book, and I ripped through the chapters in record time. And then we switch to one of the bleakest sequences I've read in a while, with a young girl, Delilah, hatching an escape from a disgusting, pitch-black basement, where she's spent years enduring unimaginable horrors at the hands of her backwoods captors. It begins with the high-wire act of an unnamed wife sneaking out on her abusive husband to meet her lover, to what potentially seems like a violent abduction.
Unfortunately Local Woman Missing was, for me, a miss.
While not on the same level, I also found Don't You Cry to be a truly gripping psychological thriller, with imagery that has stayed with me to this day. The Good Girl remains one of my favorite thrillers, with twists that are genuinely shocking while still seeming plausible, and a mystery that unravels in realistic, but nevertheless thrilling, ways. For instance, when her books 'hit' for me, they hit. Never has an author embodied the phrase "hit or miss" for me the way Mary Kubica does.
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