Narrated through multiple perspectives and flipping back and forth in time, author Mary Kubica delivers an unsettling, layered thriller that unfolds in the Chicago suburbs, even as lives of different members belonging to a close-knit community unravel, intersect, shatter, and then ultimately collide eleven years later when the truth and, ultimately, the fate of two missing women and a six-year-old little girl is finally unearthed. A compelling domestic suspenser albeit its rushed ending that's more shocking than convincing,
Local Woman Missing is also a tale of consequences that dives straight into the dark depths of the untold cruelty inflicted by humans upon others ("There's no end to the evil things people will do one another," goes a character at one point). By turns taut and tragic, the whodunnit is a page-turner, as sharp as it is fun.
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