2 stars for falling flat after a too-early reveal.

For around the first third of this book, I was hooked. But by the half way mark most of the mystery had been revealed, and it became little more than a waiting game until an info dump at the very end that was supposed to be a plot twist but which unfortunately fell very flat. At first I was interested in Olivia's plight, but her chapters soon became incredibly repetitive and there really wasn't much incentive to continue after the surprisingly early revelation about the circumstances surrounding her disappearance.

With regard to the other characters, I liked the cops on the case, especially Becky, but Tom's side story about his dead brother and a break in at his cottage was simply a teaser designed to get you to read the next book, and went absolutely nowhere in this one. The book was also in the habit of occasionally having a POV chapter from a random character where it seemed like the author couldn't come up with another way to give us the information she wanted us to have. The writing itself was serviceable but dull.

It wasn't a bad book per se, but after a promising start I was left disappointed and it was a slog to get through the latter half.