Today it’s my turn on the blog tour for The Disappearance. My review is written with thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me on the tour and to the publisher for my copy of the book.

Blurb:

A three-year-old girl disappears without a trace from her wealthy parents’ summer house. The alarm was on all night long and the windows and doors were locked. Investigators do not find any evidence of an abduction and fear the worst.

Experienced lawyer, Joanna Chylka, and her novice protégé, Kordian Orynski, are tasked with defending a married couple charged with murder by the prosecutor’s office. The trial is circumstantial in nature, but everything seems to point to the parents’ guilt – after all, when you eliminate what is impossible, whatever remains must be the truth.

Review:

I really enjoy a courtroom drama, and The Disappearance was one such novel. It’s a little different to other novels in the genre, which made it stand out for me and I loved trying to guess what would happen next, even though I had no idea. It’s set in Poland, which means the justice and court system operates differently to the ways with which I am familiar, but the author explains these differences very clearly so that the plot is easy to follow.

The court case which forms the plot of The Disappearance is brilliantly conceived and I loved trying to fit the pieces of the puzzle together and work out what had happened. I loved the way the novel made me think about what would happen next, and there are plenty of twists and turns that add to the intrigue all the way through.

The protagonists of The Disappearance are Joanna Chylka and Kordian Orynski. Remigiusz Mroz has built these characters really well and they are both fascinating characters in their own right; however the chemistry and back and forth between them is on another level. It provided another layer to the story and also gave us some lighter moments in between the darker elements of the plot.

The Disappearance is available from Amazon.

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