I feel like I was misled by the cover/title/blurb of this book. I love the cover, immediately caught my eye, the title did too. The blurb put the nail in the coffin and by this point I was clicking request on Netgalley faster than ever. But after reading this, I think it’s definitely more of a domestic suspense and had I known that beforehand, I may have enjoyed this more. When I picked this up I was in the mood for a more standard mystery/thriller and I had wrongly assumed this was a pulse pounding domestic suspense.

Wrong Number starts out slow and it took me until about a third of the way through until I actually started to get into the story. Some action begins at this point, but unfortunately it never really reached an exciting level for me. The plot itself was very predictable and I had things figured out very quickly. There was really no heavy layer of suspense hanging over the story either which I would expect in any mystery novel. The combination of these two crucial elements failing for me left things very flat and uninteresting.

This definitely wasn’t the worst book I’ve ever read, it had some moments where I was feeling good about where things were headed, but then every time I would start to relax into the read I would either have to suspend some serious disbelief or be immersed in a love triangle. Being unprepared for the romantic aspect really threw me for a loop and I don’t mind tossing logic out the window occasionally, but I had to do it here a bit too much for my liking. The ending was really curt, I almost thought my copy was missing a few pages, but then I saw there will be a sequel in May. If things had been whittled down a bit I’m not sure one would even be necessary.

If you’re looking for something with a similar plot and a better domestic suspense check out The Marriage Lie, I enjoyed that one much more.

Most wrong number calls end with an "oh, I'm sorry" and a hang up. The one Amanda gets one evening while preparing dinner is different. The man on the other end of the line is insistent that he has the right home, but he's requesting to speak to someone Amanda has never heard of and leaves her irritated by the longer than necessary interruption. Strange, but more annoying than alarming. What is alarming is that after their dinner and bed, Amanda's husband Will is gone when she wakes up. No goodbye, no telling her he had to go in to work early. She is upset, but figures he's forgotten to tell her he had to get an early start. That hope is squashed when she gets a call from his work... they are also wondering where he is.

The rest of the story revolves around finding out where Will is and why he left. Amanda uses her vast knowledge of computers to search herself, and she also enlists the help of her detective ex boyfriend Shane. The happy marriage she and Will had is shattered, and for what? What could be so bad that Will would leave Amanda, the woman he was so in love with and protective over?

I could have done with less of the triangle and I wasn't that big of a fan of the ending. I did like the premise and it's written in a very easy to devour way, I never got lost or had to look back even though I read it in several sittings. I really liked the parts of the book that had to do with the darknet. I noticed a few things were left open-ended, which I'm sure will be dealt with in the sequel!

I received an ARC of this book from Net Galley and Aria, thank you! My review is honest and unbiased.

Thank you Netgalley and Aria for this digital ARC in exchange for an honest review.

So I can't say too much about this without giving loads away but essentially Amanda and Will are apparently a blissfully happy couple until she receives an innocuous wrong number. Within 24 hours Will is missing and Amanda has to turn to her ex Shane (who is rather helpfully a detective) to find where he is and why he has vanished.

So first the good. This is a great story with a main character that is a bit of a go getter - Amanda isn't fearless exactly but she isn't willing to sit back and wait for events to unfold for her. She has her own set of skills that she is ready to use even if it means been on the wrong side of the law.

And then the bad. There's a fair bit of padding in the guise of unnecessary descriptions. The book ended very suddenly, leaving me a bit confused only to realise there will be a sequel. Well obviously I don't know what the author intends to happen but it did feel as if this was stretched out already so splitting the story seems unnecessary.

I you like thrillers you'll like this but probably won't love it. A good and undemanding read.

I enjoyed this book, it was an easy read nothing too heavy. The premise is good. Amanda receives a mistaken call asking for jake burton and when she tells her husband will he seems worried. He disappears the next day and when the police have no leads amanda resorts to her hacker past to find him with the help of the ex boyfriend policeman. Amanda knows very little about her husband and his background which is intriguing.The twist was abit predictable for my liking but there were other plots to keep the reader interested! My main gripe is i feel the story could have been finished within one book but there is a frustrating and abrupt end although a sequel will be out in the summer.