Local Woman Missing

A quiet suburb outside Chicago loses three people in a short span. Shelby Tebow vanishes first. Soon afterward Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, disappear from a spot only blocks from where Shelby was last seen. The search turns up more questions than answers, and the case eventually goes cold.

Eleven years later, Delilah returns. The neighbourhood wants to know where she has been, but the answer is not one anyone is ready for.

The book is a suspense novel with three narrators and two timelines. The earlier one covers the weeks leading up to the disappearances. Meredith works as a doula and yoga instructor, and anonymous threats are frightening her more and more. Her neighbour Kate alternates with her, and together they show a community less safe than it appears.

The present-day thread belongs to Delilah's brother Leo. He is fifteen, and he resents the damage the case has done to his family. The two threads move toward each other and meet at a domestic secret that nobody around them suspected.

Expect unease that builds through shifting viewpoints and withheld information, with one family at the centre.