The Night They Vanished. An intriguing title all on its own. Throw in the dark tourism element and you have the makings of an interesting story. I wasn't sure what I was getting into with this one. I was drawn into this story and could not put it down. I ended up reading it in one day.
The book is divided in to two perspectives. One being Hanna, the rebellious teenager, now 30-year-old who is estranged from her family after she destroyed it some 15 years prior and her sister Sasha, who is not allowed to do anything because she might turn into Hanna. Hanna had some problems, running away, drinking, and drugs.
The story opens with Hanna having just gotten out of relationship, living in her owned flat and working a stable job. All seems well and good until she's set up on a blind date by her best friend Dee. Adam is a seemingly nice person with one weird interest: he runs a website for dark tourism. Dark tourism for those that don't know is tourism directed to places that are identified with death and suffering. Hanna is a little freaked out but he's hansom and funny, so she's interested. Until the day after their date when she decided to check out his website. There she sees a new entry. An entry about a new location to check out and the brutal slaying of the family that lives there. Its Hannas father, stepmother and sister and the location is the caravan park that her father manages. Hanna of course is immediately scared and goes to the police. The police cannot locate her family and things just go from bad to worse pretty quickly.
Hanna is informed that her family moved from the location a few months prior and are now living at another caravan park location, but they aren't there either. Everyone is surprised to find out that Hanna had no idea they were moving. In order to find her family, she's going to have to face the tragedy that divided them 15 years before and figure out who in her life is trying to make her pay for the decisions she made.
I was pleasantly surprised with this one. I wasn't sure who was the one stalking both Hanna and Sasha and who could have been the one close enough to Hanna that they would know all the information, yet she wouldn't suspect them. I had some inklings as to who it might be but was still surprised to find out exactly what happened in the end. The chapters are short, and I felt the story itself was well put together and everything wrapped up nicely when all was over. A dark thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat, dying to find out what's going to happen. I received this book free from Grand Central Publishing and Novel Suspects for an honest review.
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