Little Secrets - Jennifer Hillier

Fiction/Suspense

Rating: 7.5/10

This book begins with every parent’s nightmare, the disappearance of a child in a crowded market.  You look away for a split second and when you glance back, they are gone.

Over a year after their son’s abduction, Marin and her husband Derek are as far from their perfect life as they can be. They rarely speak, barely able to look each other in the eye.  Then Marin discovers, through a private investigator she hasn’t told her husband she hired to help find their son, that Derek is having an affair. On the surface it feels like a cliché, but it’s those secrets, and the schemes they inspire, that compel the reader to keep going.  After a fully engaging read I would argue that the secrets revealed, and there are multiple, are the opposite of “little” in every measurable way. 

While there is a jaw dropping twist or two, and the realization that you can’t tell the good guys from the bad, this is a popcorn read through and through.  It won’t fill you up for long, but you will enjoy every moment that you are devouring it!

Book Pairing(s): Fierce Kingdom by Gin Philips, Never Look Away by Linwood Barclay, Gone Baby Gone by Dennis Lehane