Maybe closer to 2.5 stars. The Child Finder follows Naomi, a sort of freelance private detective who is really good at finding missing kids, as she searches for two missing children. Madison is little girl who disappeared a couple of years ago in the freezing Oregon forest. The other is the baby of an autistic mother who is being charged with the death of the child. Naomi also has her own demons from her past to deal with.

This book was hard for me to read because you get Madison’s perspective and story as she’s held in captivity and abused (including sexually) by a much older man. I don’t think anyone likes to read about sexual abuse of a child. Just a warning in case you’re sensitive to these types of things.

This was a quick mystery/thriller. It’s one of those books where you don’t have to be really concentrating to understand and follow it. I’d say it’s somewhere around 3 stars for me, which means, “it was fine”. It looks like this is going to be the first in a series about Naomi, and I might read more because I like reading about the search for a missing person and rooting for them to be found. I wasn’t heavily invested in Naomi’s own story, though, but I could read more about her and be fine. These types of books are never my faves but I like them for what they are.