What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan
Rachel Jenner and her son Ben are out for a walk one sunny
Sunday. Ben asks if he can run ahead to
their destination swing. Rachel has no
reason to say no. But when she gets to
where she is supposed to find Ben, he is missing. Just that quickly, just that close to her.
From there the story turns to the psychology of suspects and
police procedure in the horrific event
of a missing child. Everyone is suspect,
especially Rachel. The media has
opinions. The police aren’t moving fast
enough for her, they aren’t looking the way she would look. They won’t listen to her, a hysterical mother,
when she thinks she finds new clues. She
unravels, compounding the problem.
This new genre of psychological thriller is picking up steam
but the psychological part in this story is putting yourself into Rachel’s
place and wondering how to deal with a child gone missing. While the list of suspects is long it’s not
always “stranger danger” that we need to be wary of.
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