The day after her ninth birthday was the time for Grace to walk over from Olivia’s house to her house .
But she didn’t make it she was picked up by a woman in a car.
I had an ARC from Bookouture

Lucie and Blake have suddenly found themselves living every parents worst nightmare. The day after their beloved daughter Grace's ninth birthday,they agreed to let her walk home from her best friend Olivia's house. It was only a five minute walk and they had a plan in place so they could observe her along the way. But despite all their careful planning,somewhere between the two houses, Grace completely vanished into thin air.

As the frantic search for Grace begins,we learn that many of the people in the families lives are hiding secrets including Lucie and Blake. Blake's is a present day secret but Lucie has been keeping hers since she ran away from university sixteen years ago. The story is voiced almost entirely by Lucie and flips back and forth between the present and the past. As I frantically turned the pages of this gripping,intense thriller,the author cleverly drew me into a false sense of security. I really thought I had it all worked out and then BLAM, she threw in a twist that took everything that I thought I knew,screwed those thoughts into a tiny ball and chucked them out of the window.

I love a book that plays with my emotions,I want to feel something about the characters and that is definitely what happened whilst I was reading this fast paced thriller. There was characters I liked,disliked,empathised with,changed my mind about and just plain gave me the creeps. Once I started reading this book,I didn't want to put it down,I was 100% hooked in from the first page right through to the breath taking,heart pounding conclusion. This is K.L.Slater at her best,her words flow with ease,drawing the reader into Lucie and Blake's world and living every minute of their nightmare and fear as time passed and there was still no trace of their beloved daughter. Absolutely amazing book,worth far more than five stars and definitely going to be one of my favourite reads of this year. Very very highly recommended.

A nine year old goes missing on her short, first walk home. Parents and grandparents are devastated as well as neighbors and friends. Complicating the situation is that the child is a diabetic. While the police move in, there are red herrings thrown in and around the investigation. The father appears clueless and the mother is an emotional wreck. But one of them has lied for a very long time - is that lie what this is about? Who can you trust? How long does your past reach back for you?

K.L. Slater is a favorite and always manages to write a thoroughly engaging mystery/thriller.

As always, many thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for the wonderful opportunity to read an ARC of this latest novel.

First off, I liked the cover very much. This woman whose profile looks like Robin Wright’s with the taglines “two parents in pieces, one is a liar” and “with a breathtaking twist” sold it for me… but it’s also why I downed my rating to 3.5. I felt like I’d been cheated and I think I would have enjoyed the book more if the “breathtaking” twist hadn’t mentioned because I figured it out as soon as it occurred and the father’s secrets fell short.

Overall I liked the story; a nine-year old disappears into thin air as she walks alone from a friend’s house just down the street.
But there are details that I thought weren’t right.

Be aware that what follows contains spoilers.

When Bev, Lucie’s best friend and neighbor from where Grace walked home, comes to Lucie (Grace’s mother) to tell her that she’s received an anonymous letter and a photograph from Lucie’s traumatic past, Lucie readily decides to ignore it and not link it to her daughter’s disappearance. As a mother, I found it very unlikely that Lucie didn’t talk about the note and photograph to the police and/or her husband. I became annoyed with her and even wondered if she really wanted to get Grace back—come on, it’s been almost 24 hours that your daughter, your diabetic daughter, has disappeared, and a letter suddenly points out to your past, no way can you not let the cops know about it…whatever it is you did 16 years ago.

Also unlikely is the fact that Grace would simply hop in a random car precisely on the day her parents finally agreed she could walk home alone, and she could finally show them it was no big deal because she’s nine now and she’s responsible and she can deal with it easily.

Finally, two details remain unanswered for me. One, why did Grace leave her backpack at Olivia’s? And two, why are the flashbacks told in 3rd-person narrative when the rest is 1st-person? I hoped there’d be a twist there, but no.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for the opportunity in exchange for my honest review. It was well-written and engaging but I lost sympathy for Lucie after the note to Bev.

Thank you Netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
I thought this was a pretty good mystery with some interesting twist. Louise is in a frantic search for her daughter Grace after she disappears after walking home from a friend's house. The author did a good job portraying the despair and turmoil both Louise and her husband experience with their daughter's disappearance. It did feel a bit slow in the beginning but once the story picks up it gets better.

Grace a nine year old girl disappears,finally her parents allow her to walk home alone for the first from a nearby friends house.Grace doesn’t make it home Grace disappears.This is a twisty turning chilling thriller.I picked it up was shocked drawn in to this disappearance could not put it down.#netgalley #findinggrace#bookoture.

Nine year old Grace goes missing as she walks home from her friends house a few minutes away.
Police are doing their best to find her.
There are lots of twists and turns throughout. Lots of added sub stories which add to make a fantastic read!
Read it in a day because I couldn't put it down.
Thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for allowing me to read this arc.

Another fabulous book by this Author. A 9 year old girl goes missing walking a short distance home from her friend's house. The characters are hiding all kinds of secrets. The reason behind Grace disappearing, when it is divulged, will shock you from the top of your head to the soles of your feet. Absolutely brilliant writing. Thanks to NetGalley, Bookoutre and the Author for allowing me to read and review this book.

I have read all of K L Slater’s previous novels and they are brilliant, including this one, “Finding Grace’.

Once again, the plot is devious and intricate. Just when I think I know what is going on, I am taken by surprise.

Lucie and Blake Sullivan are married with a nine-year-old daughter, Grace and a young baby, Oscar. Blake is a local councillor and always on the move, dashing around and everybody knows him. The day after her ninth birthday they agree to let Grace walk home from her friend’s house, which is only a few minutes along the same road. Her friend’s father will watch her half the way and then Blake will see her the remaining distance, as there is a bend in the road. She goes missing.

The police and local community are out looking but Grace has disappeared into thin air. Nobody appears to know anything but Lucie has a secret from her student days, which begins to unfurl. In addition Lucie begins to doubt her husband’s sincerity and finds herself searching his office only to find something incriminating.

A complex, brilliant story and highly recommended. Thanks to NetGalley, Bookouture and KL Slater for the ARC in return for my honest review.

I enjoyed reading this book. It had a good story to it. I liked the variety of characters in it. It is my first book read by this author. I hope to read more books by this author.

Well Kim Slater has done it again, she just gets better and better and I just love the style of her writing. I particularly liked how it kept moving from the past to the present and it kept me interested from the very beginning and I soon got involved with all the characters.

Overall this is a gripping psychological thriller with a great twist at the end and I can thoroughly recommend. Well done Kim I cannot wait for your next book.

Thank you to Netgalley and Bookouture for giving me the opportunity to read this fantastic book.

A great story line with brilliant main characters.. I read this book in one sitting as I couldn't put it down.

Wow, I'm a big fan of K. L. Slater and having enjoyed all her previous novels, I couldn't wait to read this one ad it is her best yet.

Although stories about missing children are overly common nowadays, this one's builds a gripping tense plot. The characters are complex multilayered and unreliable with surprising twists and dark secrets all along.
I also loved the unpredictable outcome, all this made it an exciting addictive read that I devoured in one day.

Thanks Netgallery, Bookouture, and author K.L. Slater for an ARC of this novel and looking forward to read more by the author.

Finding Grace by KL Slater seems to have brought back the author's superb skill set in this novel that creates tension at the outset. Missing children novels are a dime a dozen lately, but Slater has set this story apart with a tense and gripping backstory. There's a lot going on with plenty of red herrings, mysterious actions by husbands, neighbors, fathers, etc., but I was pleasantly surprised at the outcome of the story, and way it twisted and turned along the way. Good book and looking forward to more from Slater. Netgally kindly provided me a free copy of this book for an honest review.

This was exactly what you expect when you request a book by K L Slater . Exciting , pacey , plenty of suspects and red herrings . I really enjoyed it . Grace has just turned 9 and is allowed after some persuasion to walk home unaccompanied from her friends house just up the road . In the few minutes that it takes Grace goes missing and there is no trace of her anywhere . Her parents Lucinda and Blake have secrets of their own as do their friends and family . I must admit that I pretty much had everyone down as a suspect and one time or another and was quite surprised at the outcome . A brilliant read yet again 5 stars .

Lucie and Blake are the parents of nine year old Grace who has gone missing on her short walk home from her friend's house at the other end of their street. Both Lucie and Blake are hiding secrets from each other, one a recent secret and one a long hidden secret from the past, neither of them likely to have anything to do with Grace's disappearance. Or do they?

At first I thought, 'not another missing child mystery', but it turned out to be so much more than that. An engaging and well written psychological thriller with enough twists to keep me guessing to the end.

A nine year old girl has seemingly vanished on a walk home from her friends house, even though the friends father is supposed to be watching from his end and her father is supposed to be looking for her to arrive home. In this story everyone seems to be hiding something and one of these secrets may hold the key to Grace's disappearance. I enjoyed this book from beginning to end.

K.L Slater seems to keep getting better with each book that I read. I was super excited to get sent this new book and was not disappointed. I was hooked from page 1 and had to keep reading until I finished it. This is a great psychological thriller that I strongly recommend.

I would like to thank Netgalley and Bookouture for this ARC of Finding Grace.

This is my second book by K.L. Slater and she is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. Finding Grace did not disappoint; it was suspenseful and sinister and I couldn't put it down.

Grace is a 9 year old girl who is wanting more independence. Her parents (Lucie and Blake) agree to let her walk home from her friend's (Olivia) house, after all it's just down the street. Lucie and Blake have set up a strategy to watch her come home (in a way that she doesn't she's being watched). As Lucie is waiting for Grace to burst through the door, a sinking feeling is hitting her as the minutes pass. Grace doesn't come home. The search for Grace begins and so does a road of lies, twists and suspenseful plots. Secrets don't stay burried forever.

Very good read!! I loved the twist at the end!

A nine year old child goes missing and everyone is trying to find her. This book has lots of twists and turns and many long kept secrets. It does flip from present back to the mother's college years frequently, while only giving small bits of the secret. At some point everyone is a suspect due to the many secrets being kept but the ending does tie everything up. A very good mystery