The second sister by Claire Kendal is a 4 star read.
Ella has been searching for her missing sister for 10 years,now at the same age she was when her sister went missing she ups her search hoping to finally find out something new. Ella is getting the feeling that she's being watched and she starts to worry that the it might be the same person involved in her sisters disappearance.
This story was slow to start with but once you got into it it really got interesting,there's so many twists and turns that you never see the ending coming. I haven't previously read anything by this author but I am looking forward to seeing what else she has written.
I voluntarily reviewed an advance copy of this book through Netgalley.

I enjoyed this book and thought it flowed reasonably well. I would recommend this book if you like mystery plots . Just thought it could have been paced better thus the 4 stars and not 5

This was an OK read but I just found it difficult to get into I'm afraid. There just weren't enough twists for me or enough to keep me gripped. I really enjoyed The Book of You by this author but this just wasn't for me.

An intriguing book with many twists and turns, telling the story of one sister looking for a missing sister. Not as shocking as Kendal's debut novel, but still fast-paced and thrilling.

Sometimes I read a book that totally hooks me in although I can't honestly explain why....well this was one of those books.

It has been ten years since Ella`s older sister Miranda dropped her baby son Luke off at theirs parents house,drove away in her car and vanished without a trace.Chilling new evidence links Miranda to Jason Thorne who is now in prison for the murders of several women,is it possible that Miranda knew him?

Now at the same age that Miranda was when she vanished and driven by her nephew's longing to know about his mother,Ella will do whatever it takes to uncover the truth - no matter how dangerous.....

This entertaining mystery is set between the dates of the 31st of October and the 19th of November of the same year.Throughout the book the titles of each chapter are found somewhere in the pages of that specific chapter which I thought was a clever idea.The story is voiced by Ella (only her sister was allowed to call her Melanie),I liked Ella,she was brave,stubborn,loyal,very clever but her attitude could sometimes also be very annoying.Little ten year old Luke was such a clever,perceptive little boy and I also liked Luke's dad.The other characters where a mixed bag of realistic,well thought out characters most of which where completely untrustworthy and a number of them where totally unlikable..The mystery of what had happened to Miranda was intreguing and I suspected more than one character of being involved in her disappearance as the story unfolded.

Although I did enjoy this book I did have a couple of issues with the story.I really get frustrated with books where almost every male character in the story falls in love with the heroine,it's what you expect if you are reading a romance but not what you want or need when you are reading a thriller.My second issue is that it was far too obvious that one character knew more than they were admitting.They might as well have had a large flashing sign above their head that read VILLAIN ALERT..TRUST ME AND BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN TO YOU.

It's not fast paced but the story is Intreguing,there was some unexpected twists and a very intense final confrontation.I did enjoy this thriller and would happily read another book by this author in the future.

An exciting well written thriller with plenty of action. This book is fast paced and well worth reading. There are so many secrets and it is not easy for Ella to find out what happened to Miranda. The plot has a lot of twists and turns and the ending surprised me.

Took a little while to get into but then became a good, suspenseful read. Short chapters with a loving sister and little boy who need to know what happened the day Miranda disappeared. A satisfying ending that I did not see coming.

I enjoyed this book, although I think it was easy to see 'whodunit ' but this did not detract from the overall enjoyment. Preferred this to the authors first book and it encourages me to read future offerings.

Another five star winner from this author. Superb plot, kept me gripped from start to finish.

How many psychopaths can you cram into one book? Lots, according to Kendal. Here we have the caught killer in a psychiatric hospital, the uncaught killer on the loose, and a madly jealous girlfriend for no good reason just to up the ante...

I'm afraid I found this overly-familiar in its plotting and also written in a kind of muddy, hyper-emotionalised style that grated: every time our heroine feels something it's described in overblown metaphors e.g. 'There is another explosion. The sky is erupting with giant dandelions in emerald and fuchsia and violet and sapphire. "Maybe." Each flower pops, then vaporises.' Purple prose, anyone?

I guess I'm wearying of yet another plucky woman taking on an investigation which the police have failed to solve, here the disappearance of her sister 10 years ago. Of course, she immediately spots clues that have eluded the police and is soon playing mind games with a killer in a secure facility a la Hannibal Lecter. With Ella's ongoing internal dialogue with her missing sister in the second person, plus her flipping backwards and forwards between memories and the present, often within the same paragraph, there's a lot of faff here which takes up space without moving the story on.

I'd heard good things about Kendal's 'You' hence my interest in reading this - but her style perhaps just isn't for me.