Let me say that I purchased this book as an impulse buy without even reading much of the blurb, because something about it intrigued me, and I am a pushover for suspense books featuring strong women characters.
Told in flashbacks, we first encounter Claire as a teenager walking to school, then viciously snatched and thrown into a car which speeds away. There is a witness, but nothing pans out and time moves on. Fast-forward ten years, and a beautiful woman picks up a down-on-his-luck detective in a bar. Behind the initial intent of their hook-up, the two make a lasting impression on each other, but all that Connor has to show for his time with Claire is a paper scribbled with her family's address. His meeting with her family shocks him as well as them. He has met a young woman presumed to be dead, who has disappeared into thin air. Unbeknownst to anyone, Claire cannot break the invisible chains that bind her to her kidnapper, long after the missing girl becomes an adult. With the help of Mitch, a P.I. who has become close to the Fletcher family, the determined detective tries to unravel the clues, and find Claire Fletcher.
my thoughts: I loved this book! Sure it has a disturbing plot concerning the violation of kidnapped girls/women, but Ms. Regan does not go for gratuitous violence or sexual denigration. Despite the excessive tv coverage in past years of kidnapped females in this country who have been rescued, the author actually first started writing this book many years ago before those even took place.
I liked how Claire's character was not portrayed as one-dimensional. She was sometimes a broken victim, but she also kept her sense of self, and allowed a stubbornness to emerge time and again. The plot was well-developed and moved quickly, which kept me turning the pages well into the night to finish. I was eager to see how Ms. Regan would tie up all the loose ends, and she did a satisfying job. The only negativity I could put my finger on concerned the instant chemistry between Claire and Connor. While I could see Claire enamored with a gentle soul who didn't want to just use her body, I wasn't sure if a hardened detective would sustain the drive needed to recover her. Of course that is why we call fiction escapism; we allow authors some leeway with plot development if they can state a strong case for it. All in all, I feel this book is deserving in the categories it is nominated for, and I did vote for it without the author asking me to.
An exciting, intense, fun read that I recommend highly!!
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For fans of detective mysteries, romantic suspense, and suspense thrillers. 5 stars
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Finding Claire Fletcher
Chilling, and cold, held captive by a monster who has no conscience. When Claire is abducted at the age of 15, she is no longer the girl, she used to be. She has to use every instinct to survive. After 10 years of being held captive, some of her family have given up, and other cling to hope, when Detective Conner Parks, decides to go to a bar to help with the bad day, he meets her. Claire, is the name she gives him, but it it really the same Claire that disappeared 10 years before? This book will have you on the edge of your seat, and not wanting to put it down. So many twists, turns, and shocking revelations. If you love thrillers, you will love this heart wrenching story of determination, anger, hatred, survival…and that is just the beginning of my words to describe this book
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Top reviews from other countries
- Ash SonaleReviewed in India on June 16, 2019
The book is gripping but I couldn't digest a few things. Hence 3 as my rating.
- Nick WilfordReviewed in the United Kingdom on March 25, 2013
First-rate psychological thriller
- Desney KingReviewed in Australia on June 20, 2023
Phew! Lisa Regan up close and terrifying
