Riding the coat tails of all the "Girl" books we've seen released over the last few years, All the Missing Girls tries to be a bit smarter than most. I've read a couple of books trying the similar "something happened to the main female character 10 years ago and there will be a twist" in the last year and this is definitely the best.

Nic returns home at her brother's request to sell their family home. The story works backwards over the course of 2 weeks to pull apart Nic's own memories of her missing best friend from 10 years before, as well as her connection to a recently missing local girl. The end of the story was a let down: commit some crimes, cover for your family, no one goes to jail.

Writing is inoffensive and I would probably give it 3.5 stars if given the choice. Would make a good movie and I quite liked the character narrative, again in comparison to other novels from the same genre. Easy to read and finished in no time at all!

The first 70% of the book is great, lots of twists and turns, narrative from different characters and some red herrings too. I found it pretty easy to read and generally enjoyable, but didn't think much of the twist, and had guessed the culprit correctly by about half way through. It didn't take away from the book itself, and I would have probably given it a solid three stars, but the ending was incredibly poor and was really disappointed in the way the blasé treatment of mental health by the author.
Fun and a bit of escapism if you can see past the shallow understanding of mental health.