Review: Guilty by Laura Elliot

Guilty by Laura Elliot
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

After a blazing row with her parents 13 year old Constance Lawson sneaks out of her home in the middle of the night and vanishes without a trace.

A few days later Constance`s uncle Karl Lawson finds that he is the prime suspect in her disappearance thanks to a media frenzy created by journalist Amanda No we.

Six Years Later

Karl's life is in ruins but the woman who took everything away from him now has a successful chat show,a husband and a baby boy.Amanda has the perfect life until the day she receives a phone call and finds herself plunged into every parents living nightmare.

I think Guilty is going to be one of those books that will divide readers opinions.Some will love it,some will hate it and some like me will find their opinion falling somewhere in the middle.I enjoyed certain elements of the story but I also felt that it dragged in places,at one point I was uncertain wether I was going to finish the book or not.

The search for Constance was gripping and intreguing and had a surprising and unexpected conclusion.Amanda's systematic and cold hearted destruction of Karl`s life was scarily realistic,we all know the media don't care what damage they cause to people's lives as long as the story makes headlines,who cares if the facts are true or not.I would have liked there to have been more background information on Karl and Nicole`s marriage,that might have explained why Nicole reacted the way that she did to what was happening to Karl.

The characters where complex,believable and mostly not very likeable.I felt a lot of sympathy for Karl,I mean you would have to have a heart of stone not to feel some sympathy for the poor man.It's not a fast paced story but there is the odd twist or two and it does have a satisfactory ending.Unfortunately I thought parts of the story where a bit too slow but that's just my opinion,I'm sure other readers will love this book.

BTW - I LOVED the Plinks.....lol