The Night She Vanished by Wendy Dranfield

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The Night She Vanished by Wendy Dranfield - 389 pages

My parents seem to be the perfect couple. But no one knows what I know…

Everyone in the small Midwestern town of Henderson looks up to my perfect parents. With dependable jobs as a midwife and the town sheriff, they help this close-knit community feel safe. But the locals didn’t grow up in my parents’ house. They don’t know what I know. And they wouldn’t believe me if I told them…

After my best friend vanished when we were just fifteen, I left town and never looked back. I couldn’t prove it, but I think my parents killed her.

Now, years later, my little sister has vanished. I have no choice but to go home and play happy families again. Because I have to find out what my parents have done to her. I have to try to save her.

But when bones are discovered on a local farm, and all the evidence leads back to our front door, I realize I was wrong about absolutely everything. And that coming back was the deadliest thing I could do…

I truly wanted to like this book.  The synopsis grabbed my attention.  Did Nicole's parents kill her best friend?  Why would they do that?  This book starts strong but the further along I got the more frustrated I got with the main character.  She makes damning accusations with zero proof, common sense does not prevail.  Why would the discovery of her best friend's bones mean that the same person took her little sister?  I have no idea how she reaches that conclusion and it's not explained.  Makes no sense to me but maybe I'm missing something.  I think the writer was trying to create suspense but to me it got so silly that I found it more annoying than anything.  Overall this could have been a good book, but it did not flow well and to me it fell short.