Review

This started off strong but it got very slow pretty fast. I was listening to the audiobook, I kept zoning out very often and lost lots of details of the story but I couldn’t care less. I just wanted to be done with.

“At the heart of this mystery was a book that solved everything for her, the way they always do. A story that made sense of the chaos of life.”

Blurb

It is June 21, the longest day of the year, and the life of new mother Camilla is about to change forever. After months of maternity leave, she will drop off her infant daughter at daycare for the first time and return to her job as a literary agent. Finally. But when she wakes, her husband Luke isn’t there, and in his place is a cryptic note.

Then it starts. Breaking news: A hostage situation is developing in London. The police tell her Luke is involved—but he isn’t a hostage. Her husband—doting father, eternal optimist—is the gunman.