Review: The Good Girl by Mary Kubica

"I've been following her for the past few days. I know where she buys her groceries, where she has her dry cleaning done, where she works. I don't know the color of her eyes or what they look like when she's scared. But I will."

Born to a prominent Chicago judge and his stifled socialite wife, Mia Dennett moves against the grain as a young inner-city art teacher. One night, Mia enters a bar to meet her on-again, off-again boyfriend. But when he doesn't show, she unwisely leaves with an enigmatic stranger. With his smooth moves and modest wit, at first Colin Thatcher seems like a safe one-night stand. But following Colin home will turn out to be the worst mistake of Mia's life.

Colin's job was to abduct Mia as part of a wild extortion plot and deliver her to his employers. But the plan takes an unexpected turn when Colin suddenly decides to hide Mia in a secluded cabin in rural Minnesota, evading the police and his deadly superiors. Mia's mother, Eve, and detective Gabe Hoffman will stop at nothing to find them, but no one could have predicted the emotional entanglements that eventually cause this family's world to shatter.

An addictively suspenseful and tautly written thriller, The Good Girl is a propulsive debut that reveals how even in the perfect family, nothing is as it seems….

I just finished reading this book and have to say, it has stayed with me like only a handful of novels that I've read before it.  This book woke me up at 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning, leaving me to lie in the dark pondering it some more.  It's not a heart-pounding thriller but one of suspense and intrigue.  Told in the first-person narrative from three of the characters:  Eve Dennet, Mia's mother, Gabe Hoffman, the detective on the case, and Colin Thatcher, Mia's abductor.  It jumps back and forth (I won't tell you how because I don't want to ruin anything) but flows well and is a quick read.  I have already passed my copy onto my Mother and highly recommend it to everyone.  Pick up a copy today and let me know what you think of it!