Nicki`s Life of Crime : BLOG TOUR BOOK REVIEW

Claire and Matt Ferrer find themselves plunged into every parents worst living nightmare when their eleven year old son Evan vanishes on his way home from school. The police find themselves under massive pressure to solve the case but find they have no answers to where Evan is.

Then,..months later Evan is unexpectedly found but he is severely traumatised and refuses to speak. His family are overjoyed that he is home again but begin to realise that their lives will never be the same again.

DI Naylor and her team know that unless the people who abducted Evan are found,other children are in danger. But with Evaan not talking,will they find themselves in a race against time to find the perpetrators before it is too late.

Although Found is a police procedural,the heart of the story is how Evan's family are affected and cope during and after his abduction. It was obvious that Claire loved her son deeply and her conflicting feelings about how much she wanted to know about what happened to Evan were portrayed realistically. I don't know how much detail I would want to know if I found myself in the same situation. Evan's relashionship with his grandfather Jack was heart warming,Jack had so much patience with Evan and the scenes where Jack went into Evan's bedroom at night and read to him when he was having nightmares were lovely and brought a lump to my throat. I liked Claire and Jack but I can't say I liked Matt very much,he seemed to have a very negative attitude towards everything and never seemed interested in helping his son recover from his traumatic experience.

I loved the banter between DI Naylor and her team,they worked well together and there was none of the oneupmanship and back stabbing that you normally find in a lot of police procedurals. I think that it is disgraceful that in the twenty first century,the police are forced to prioritise cases due to lack of resources and cases like Evan's can be shelved and not even one officer be left investigating and trying to find new leads. And yet certain cases are constantly having large pots of money put into the resources fund by the government,have large teams of detectives but are still unsolved. Cases involving missing children should all be top priority and be funded more fairly.

Found is a beautifully written story that is difficult to read at times,the subject matter is written with care and sensitivity. It's not what you read but what you imagine happened to poor Evan. The story really pulls at your heart strings and caused me to experience a myriad of emotions,I was honestly almost in tears at one point. I will definitely be reading more books written by this author in the future. Highly recommended by little old me.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Erin Kinsley is a full-time writer. She grew up in Yorkshire and currently lives in East Anglia. Now writing under a pseudonym,her previous books were published by Bloomsbury. Longlisted for the Desmond Elliot prize amongst other awards,her writing has received glowing reviews across the national press.