‘The Girl In The Missing Poster’ by Barbara Copperthwaite is a psychological thriller that is, as I always find with Barbara Copperthwaite book, well written and fantastically paced.
Twenty-five years ago Stella’s identical twin sister left their dad’s birthday party and never came back. Every single year Stella goes around putting missing posters up for her sister on the anniversary of her disappearance. This year, twenty-five years later, Netflix is streaming a documentary on her disappearance and it has every possibility of bringing things up from the past.
Barbara Copperthwaite always brings a book worth reading. Her characters are always well developed so you feel like you are with them, there, by their side as you read through the book. This one was no different, I felt the danger that ran throughout, the personal safety issues I was at one point really worried for them! The story is told mainly from Stella’s viewpoint so we can get to know her really well. The transcripts from the documentary are rather cleverly used also so we come to understand exactly what happened on that night twenty-five years ago. I have to say with the amount of suspects we come up against plenty of twists and red herrings too.
A story that is fiction but makes me feel like it could even be true crime, Barbara Copperthwaite has skilfully woven a story that I certainly could not put down unless I was made to!
Thanks to Bookouture and NetGalley for the copy of the book and my place on the tour. I am eagerly looking forward to this authors next offering.
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