Review: Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker

Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

We believe what we want to believe.We believe what we need to believe.

These are the opening words of this twisted tale of family dysfunction,secrets,lies and mental illness.

One night three years ago Cassandra and Emma Tanner disappeared.Three years later Cass returns without her sister Emma.She narrates a shocking tale of kidnapping and betrayal and insists that both her and Emma have spent the last three years being held prisoner on a mysterious island.But to forensic psychiatrist Abby Winter something doesn't add up.

As the desperate search for Emma begins, Abby begins to uncover secrets about Cass and her family and slowly begins to realise that one sister's return might just be the beginning of the crime.

The story is told from the alternating points of view of Abby and Cass so the reader gets to be part of the investigation into Emma's disappearance are the clues are uncovered and the case unfolds.Cass`s chapters are set in three different time zones,the present day,before the girls disappeared and during the three years that the girls where on the mysterious island.To be honest I enjoyed Abby`s chapters more than I did some of Cass`s,I felt that the story dragged at times during some of the pages that narrated the mind games and interactions of Cass`s family and broke the flow of the story of Emma`s disappearance.Most of the characters where untrustworthy,unreliable and unlikable although I did like Abby,Leo and Cass`s brother Witt.

It's not a fast paced story but it have enough mystery and intregue to keep me interested and wanting to know what had happened to Emma and how the story was going to end.

Many thanks to HQ Digital for a arc of this book via Netgalley in exchange for a honest review