David Miller parks his car, his 5 year old daughter Annie gets out and David plays with his mobile telephone. He looks up and Annie has vanished. The mystery begins as Annie has simply vanished and David does not know where to look.
I enjoyed reading this book and the plot is very different from other missing child novels. I liked the way many very promising lines of enquiry resulted in dead ends. All the pointers were there that suspect X was the right person with the right background and motive. This is a plot driven novel because character development is poor.
Tim’s writing style is different, it is like a television script with lots of short paragraphs. His writing is not deep and would win no literary awards. This book is all about the plot, there is no special use of language, no deep character development, no heavy discussion of leading issues or long descriptive sections. But what comes across strongly is the frantic search for Annie and the belief that the next clue will surely lead to finding her.
The Vanished is a good mystery that is told in a bare bones style. The focus is on finding Annie and nothing else. It ties in well with real life news stories of missing children, when the public guess on social media what has happened. It is not in the top league of mysteries but is still a GOOD read that entertains the reader, so it gets 4 stars from me.
The Vanished is available as an Amazon Kindle eBook and was written in 2015.
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