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Finding missing children is Matthew's job--but this time it's his own daughter who's disappeared. When private investigator Matthew Hill picks up the call from his wife, Sally, his world comes crashing down. Their eight-year-old daughter, Amelie, is missing. One second, she was there, the next, she was gone. It's the very nightmare they've been dreading. Long ago, Matthew left the force after a woman blamed him for her son's death, promising that he too would one day feel her pain. It's a threat that's hung over his family ever since, and now it's Amelie's picture on the news. Matthew knows how these things go--the longer their daughter is missing, the less hope there is of finding her alive. As the clock ticks and a canal is searched, he and Sally must reckon with their greatest fear...
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This is a little cracker of a book, which had me on the edge of my seat. Driscoll doesn't waste any time getting to the meat of the story; there's no slow build up, nope, it's straight in there with every parent's worst nightmare....child abduction.
Dark themes are the order of the day; child abduction, murder, religious mania, and brute control.
This is definitely not a book for the faint hearted.
Despite, or maybe because of, these themes, Close Your Eyes is a captivating, suspenseful read.