Book Review - Our Daughter Is Missing by Darren O'Sullivan

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Title: Our Daughter Is Missing

Author: Darren O'Sullivan

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Joffe Books

Publication Date: 29th January 2026

Rating: 5 Stars

My daughter left for school this morning. She didn’t come home.

Someone’s snatched my little girl.

I have to find her. I have to save her.

But how can I, when I can’t leave the house?

My husband tries to be the perfect stepdad. But I’m not the mother Faye deserves. Ever since the night everything changed, I’ve been too scared to go outside.

I knew it was a dangerous world out there — I was right.

Whatever you do ensure you have enough time to read this one sitting, as you won't be able to put this down. 

It's fantastic, this is an author that I am now convinced is unputdownable for me, and the second I selected this book at random on my kindle, I knew I would have to give up all ideas of other things to do this evening, in order to just read the book. 

And that was definitely the right decision as I was hooked, and as the story progressed, my mouth just opened wider and wider in disbelief. 

I did not see that coming and I am totally reeling from what I have just read. 

This is an author that knows how to get under your skin, and this story must be a parent's worse nightmare, when the 13 year old daughter goes missing, initially feared to have run away, and then discovered to have in fact been abducted. 

But the reasons why are not remotely obvious, but when you add in an agoraphobic mother who wants to help her daughter but can't leave the house, you have another element to this story.  

We get chapters from both mother and daughter, so we know how Faye is doing at all times, and how she is, or isn't coping. 

I was definitely hooked on this, and couldn't get enough of the story. and I'm already looking forward to seeing what this author writes next. 

Thank you to Joffe and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.