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Headstown is a small city. Including the children the population count is about thirteen hundred. This is where Katie Stone has lived all her life. As the story opens, Katie has disappeared. Her father, Jed, and her fiancé, Caleb Bass, are searching for her. No one has seen Katie since she left work to go meet Caleb for a dinner date. Her car is found abandoned in the parking lot of the local grocery store. The entire town pulls together and turns the area upside down searching for Katie to no avail. But on the third day, Sheriff Jake Day finds her in an old shed on the outskirts of town.
Once back in town, Katie begins telling her story. However, before she can tell Sheriff Day who had kidnapped and why, he needs to hear the entire story that led up to it. It all began when she was around ten-years-old.
*** The three days of Katie's disappearance and then being found only covers the first forty pages. A majority of the book is Katie's life from ages ten to twenty-two. I admit the girl had a rough life but I, as the reader, never felt a connection with the character of Katie.
The plot line and the unexpected twist at the end are brilliant! I never saw the twist coming. But near the beginning, as the search begins and up until Katie begins telling what happened to her, many things are repeated. The characters keep each other informed as they try to pin point exactly when Katie went missing, as well as during the search. Yet as the reader, I got tired of hearing the same thing over and over. This problem goes away once Katie begins telling her story. There are editing problems, but I managed to ignore most of them.
All-in-all, this is a decent debut novel for the author. I am not crazy about the writing style or the characters, but the plot is excellent. ***
Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.
 
Fatal Kidnapping
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