Review: The Lying Kind - Alison James

Review: The Lying Kind - Book #1 Detective Rachel Prince Series - Alison James - February 2018

I was scrolling through my kindle and was in the mood for a mystery read and the title "The Missing Girl" jumped out at me. This particular book after doing research on Goodreads had three different titles - The Missing Girl, The Lying Kind and Lola are Missing. The book starts off with Rachel and her partner Mark being handed a cold case, a young girl Lola Harper disappeared and all leads have gone ice cold. Her father has also disappeared without a trace. Rachel and Mark go and interview the mother and it seems that all cases point to a nasty custody battle and that Gavin and his daughter have swanned off somewhere. As the book goes along though and Rachel and Mark interview friends, family, acquaintances things start not adding up and it looks more like the mother knows more than she is letting on. Near the middle of the case, Rachel is alerted to an anonymous poster called TruthTeller who is adamant that the mother knows more and she is the one in fact hiding Lola. As Rachel deep dives into the mother's background, she also learns about their young son who died of SIDS and the walled-off bedroom. I have to admit when we did find out about Lola and the twists and turns near the end of the book, I was a bit confused still at the motivation of the reason behind Lola's disappearance as in one way it made sense, but the lengths that they went too didn't for me. We also meet in this book Rachel's husband that she ran out on years ago, again the reasoning behind why she ran I understood but the whole not contacting him for all those years and just letting him wonder - that to me was a weak reason for all that closed door and secrecy/hiding.  If you love mysteries and brit lit, then check out The Lying Kind by Alison James today.