Review: Her Last Tomorrow by Adam Croft

Her Last Tomorrow by Adam Croft
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Nick Cotton makes the fatal mistake of leaving his five year old daughter Ellie in the car while he goes back into their house to get a picture that Ellie wants to give to her school teacher.He is only gone for two minutes at the most but when he gets back to the car Ellie is gone.In a blind panic Nick calls the police who after finding no clues and uncovering an incident from Nick`s past decide that he is the number one suspect.Then later Nick receives an email informing him that if he kills his wife then he can have his daughter back.Nick and Tasha`s marriage is not a very happy one and is only held together by their daughter who Nick loves very much but how far is he prepared to go to get Ellie back and why and who would want Tasha dead so badly that they are prepared to kidnap an innocent five year old?.

This certainly is a fast paced story that hits the ground running from the very beginning,I like books that are written this way,yes there is no character development but I lose interest in stories where you get pages and pages of character information before anything interesting happens.I wouldn't say that the main characters in this book are very likeable and I definitely don't think Nick and Tasha behaved in ways that are normal for the parents of a missing child.I know in real life the parents are usually the prime suspects in missing children cases but the tunnel vision and behaviour of the lead detective Jane McKenna came across as rather unprofessional and even in the fictional world there is never any repercussions after the case is solved.

I admit that I did work out who had kidnapped Ellie as soon as the character was introduced into the story and I felt that the reason for the person's actions was a bit unrealistic especially considering the amount of time that had passed between the two events.Despite this I did find the book entertaining enough to read it to the end without skimming pages and it hasn't put me off reading other books by this author in the future.

Many thanks to publishers Thomas Mercer for a arc of this book via netgalley in exchange for a honest review