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

REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS!

After relentless pestering from nine year old Grace, mum Lucie finally agrees to let her walk the very short distance home from a friend’s house, with appropriate safeguards in place. It will be no surprise to readers that Grace disappears. As the police investigate, the press hound Lucie and her husband, the public rushes to judgment and Lucie grows ever more desperate, a number of secrets are about to come to light...

Of course, missing child stories have been ten a penny lately, and this did feel a bit psychological-thriller-by-numbers at times (Mysterious Bad Thing in heroine’s past, gradually revealed in flashbacks: check). This particular Bad Thing was quite an original one, though, to be fair.

The story is very readable and generally well plotted, although in retrospect there are a few too convenient coincidences and a few things which don’t really make sense, unless I missed something. (Why did Grace leave her backpack at Olivia’s? Why would she happily get in a car with someone who she last saw saying horrible things about her Mum? How incredibly coincidental that this person happened to be driving past at the exact and only moment that Grace was unobserved!)

An enjoyable escapist read but nothing that will stick in my mind.

Lucie and Blake are about to go through every parents worst nightmare when their eldest child goes missing. Within minutes of her going missing you can very much feel the tension starting to mount. It was almost unbearable at times, as hours go by and she still hasn’t been found.

I love how the author has you pointing the finger at so many people. I couldn’t make my mind up as to who could be behind Grace’s disappearance. Throw into the mix that there is something we don’t know about Lucie’s past and how that could feature in the present day, well the reader is in for one bumpy ride!

Finding Grace has plenty of twists and turns with some shocking outcomes. The suspense and tension literally jumps out from every page, keeping the reader alert and on edge throughout. An O to the M to the G of a read!

Finding Grace by K.L. Slater is simply full on from the word go. A nine year old child goes missing. Two parents are in pieces. One of them is a liar. A not unfamiliar premise, but this one has enough twists and turns to keep you guessing right up to the final page.

Lucie and Blake Sullivan have a seemingly happy marriage and have settled into domestic contentment with their two children, Grace, age nine and baby Oscar, six months. When Grace goes missing while walking home from a neighbour's house. secrets begin to emerge, and perhaps all is not as cozy as it seems. As a neighbourhood constituent of Blake's tells Lucie, "plenty of us can see right through the facade."

The story unfolds primarily in dual timelines, through Lucie's recollections of sixteen years previously at university while she was in a relationship with the shady Stefan, and her current state of affairs surrounding the disappearance of young Grace. We also hear the ominous musings of an unknown voice, someone who is watching, and waiting for Lucie's life to fall to pieces.

This is a novel that grabs hold and simply does not let go. I could not turn the pages fast enough to discover what had happened to Grace on a seemingly safe and familiar walk through her own neighbourhood, This is ultimately a cautionary tale, reminding us that the truth will always come out, and keeping secrets from the ones we love the most often yields the most dire of consequences.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for this wonderful ARC.

Finding Grace by K. L. Slater was a psychological thriller that I read in one day because I could not put it down.
After a day out with her friend Olivia and family for her ninth birthday Grace disappears on her way home. The police are called and there is a search to find her.
The book alternates between present day and Grace's mother Lucie's experiences at university many years before.
A story full of secrets and lies that has many twists and turns.
Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for my e-copy in exchange for an honest review.

Loved the sound of this book and couldn't wait to start reading it,and I wasn't disappointed .It was a simple idea but the book was far from simple .I could picture the little girl walking home on her own for the first time,and her parents horror when she didn't arrive home.I couldn't wait to find out what had happened to her,and was reading way too late.No spoilers but I enjoyed the back stories as well as the present day drama.I thought it was a very entertaining and well paced book,and I enjoyed reading it.Thanks to the publishers and netgalley for an ARC.

Just outstanding!!!! I read this book so quickly as I really couldn’t put it down, every time I did I found myself gravitating back to my kindle just to read a little bit more. It’s written in such a way that keeps you guessing and turning the pages want to know more as the tension builds. The characters are extremely well written so much so it was hard to work out quite what was going on and who did what making it a very clever book full of twists and turns, entertaining, absorbing and a damn good read what more can you ask ..just read it !!
My thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for the chance to read the ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

Another great on the edge of your seat book by this author!! Great book all around. Enjoyed all the characters and the twists. Keep them coming K.L Slater, we will be waiting!!



Thanks to net galley and the publisher for an early release of this book.