Saturday 3 October 2020

Review of Daughter by Jane Shemilt

 


Jenny is a highly successful family doctor and the mother of three fantastic and talented teenagers and is happily married to a celebrated neurosurgeon. 


However when her daughter, 15 year old Naomi, doesn't come home from a school play, Jenny's seemingly perfect life starts to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search for the teenager and they have no success. Naomi has vanished without a trace and her family are absolutely heart broken. 


As the months pass, the worst case scenarios - kidnapping and murder - all seem plausible. The trail has gone cold and there are no clues around. However for the desperate Jenny, the search for her daughter has only just began. More than a year after her daughters disappearance, Jenny is still digging for clues and answers to why her daughter would want to leave ... and the answers that she finds start to really disturb her. Everyone she has previously trusted, everyone she thought she knew have all been keeping secrets from her and this is especially true of her daughter Naomi. When she piecing together the clues and traces that her daughter left behind. Jenny discovers a very different child from the girl that she knew. 


I loved this so much and was gripped from page right the way through to page 390. I read this book in a 24 hour period and was captivated by Shemilts writing style and how she develops the characters. She has a way of making you feel that you are in the room with the characters and that you know the characters personally. I love the way that this novel switches between the different time periods and really liked the way that the characters have changed during this time. I am going to be bold and put this book on my top 5 mystery novels and will be recommending this to everyone.


To get you copy of this fantastic novel, click the following link:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Daughter