A mother is missing, presumed dead.  As the first anniversary of her death looms closer, Billie’s husband, Jonathan, is finding it hard to let go as he continues to work on his memoir about the loss.  Their daughter, Olive, begins seeing visions of her mother, telling Olive to come find her.  Did she really die in a hiking accident, or has she disappeared out of their lives on purpose?  As Olive investigates, Jonathan’s doubts begin to cloud his every thoughts.  He learns that Billie may not have been completely truthful about her weekend hiking excursions, thinking that she may have led a double life.  Full of twists and turns, I couldn’t believe the ending to Janelle Brown’s mystery.  It’ll leave you staying up way past your bedtime to find the next clue to Billie’s disappearance and the truth behind her identity.  (I speak from experience because that’s exactly what happened to me several nights in a row.)  Read more to let me tell you what I loved, and why I’m adding this the “Page-Turner” Club.

It’s early in the morning, and a fresh blanket of snow has just covered a sleepy suburb in Colorado.  All is calm until the body of high school student Lucinda Hayes is found on the playground.  When the popular and beloved girl is found murdered on school grounds, her entire community is shaken to its core.  In the days following Lucinda’s death, we follow the aftermath through the alternating perspectives of three specific people: the boy that loved her from afar, the girl that was jealous of her, and the officer investigating her murder.  Through their collective eyes, we learn more about how Lucinda has forever connected them together.

The narrators are unreliable, the perspective shifts, and the ending hits you out of nowhere.  I have a lot of thoughts on Danya Kukafka’s debut novel, Girl in Snow (out today!), and I’ll tell you all about this chilling novel as you read more.

I finished All the Missing Girls nearly two days ago, and I've listened to TWO reviews for it...but I still can't decide how I feel about it.  It's been compared to The Girl on the Train and Luckiest Girl Alive (which I have yet to read), and for good reasons.  The book is a tense read, just how I like my thrillers.  It's got the trifecta of a perfect mystery: more than one missing person, a woman with a past she wants to forget, and a town that doesn't want to forget.  It almost reached "page-turner" status for me, but not quite.