Format: Paperback, 384 pages
Release Date: June 30, 2020
Publisher: MIRA
Source: Library
Genre: Mystery / Suspense
Nobody saw a thing. Or so they say…
Baywood
police department detective A.L. McKittridge is no stranger to tough
cases, but when five-year-old Emma Whitman disappears from her day care,
there isn’t a single shred of evidence to go on. Neither the
grandmother who dropped her off, nor the teacher whose care she was
supposed to be in, can account for the missing child. There are no
witnesses. No trace of where she might have gone. There’s only one thing
A.L. and his partner, Rena Morgan, are sure of—somebody is lying.
With
the clock ticking, A.L. and Rena are under extreme pressure as they
discover their instincts are correct: all is not as it seems. The
Whitmans are a family with many secrets, and A.L. and Rena will have to
race to untangle a growing web of lies if they’re going to find the
thread that leads them to Emma…before it’s too late.
No One Saw, by author Beverly Long, is the second installment in the authors A.L. McKittridge series. While the series is named after one of the cops, the story really involves two homicide partners, McKittridge and Rena Morgan. As the story opens, McKittridge has returned from a week away with his new girlfriend Jess and is thrust into a missing child case of a (5) year old Emma Whitman. Earlier that day, Emma was dropped off by her grandmother at the Lakeside Learning Center but 10 hours later, nobody claims to have seen the girl.
The grandmother claims she signed the sheet when she dropped her off. One of her teachers, however, claims she never saw Emma. Did someone take the child, or did she just walk away. Who is telling the truth? The grandmother? The teachers? The parents? What really happened to Emma Whitman? While investigating Emma's disappearance, the detectives discover a similar disappearance happened 10 years ago to another child at a day care center. She has not been found to this day.
Could the two cases, with eerily similar MO be
connected? Could solving one, solve the other? McKittridge and Rena find
themselves suspecting so many different people, as there are many twists and
turns along the way. The Whitman's (mother, father, grandmother) have their own
secrets, as well as those at the day care, and other places involving family
places of employment. With all of these reveals and suspects, we are constantly
on our toes trying to guess who kidnapped Emma and pray that something bad
doesn't happen in the meantime.
While this is mostly a police procedural story, the author does a good job of getting to know McKittridge and Morgan. A.L. no we don't know his real name, is a divorcee with a 17-year-old daughter who is growing up quickly. His relationship with Jess, who lost her arm in a freak accident, is fresh, and he doesn't want to do anything stupid to cause it to end before it can get going. Rena has been trying to get pregnant with her husband for a very long time now and her clock is ticking before she has to make a choice whether to use a surrogate or come to the realization that adoption may be her only choice. I really like their partnership because they give as best as they get. They can focus on the investigation at hand, but that doesn't mean that they are cold stone robots without any emotions.
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