Carrie is plunged into every parent's nightmare when her five year old daughter Sofia disappears from the park. One of the other moms quickly organizes a search party, but they have no luck and finally call the police. Thankfully she is found unhurt by another good Samaritan a few days later. And then another young girl goes missing...
Parsons gives us an unreliable lead character in Carrie. She is 'face blind' - unable to read facial expressions and she is also on the spectrum. She can't read situations or emotions. But she's a dedicated mother.
Parsons gives us many choices for the whodunit, all quite plausible. The choices are whittled down as the book progresses until there are only two left. But which one is it? Parsons does a good job of keeping the reader guessing until the run up to the last pages. Lots of tension and action had me quickly turning pages to see if my supposition was right. (I was)
I'm going to be deliberately obtuse here - one big problem I had with The Good Samaritan was Carrie letting new friends have such a familiar relationship with her child. Of course, that also drives the plot forward. For this reader though, a few grains of salt were needed.
See for yourself - read an excerpt of The Good Samaritan.
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