Review of The Silent Daughter by Claire Amarti

 I received a copy of this title via NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own. 

'Schoolgirl missing', the ticker reads, and the camera cuts to a girl's face. 

Blonde hair waterfalling over her shoulders, serious eyes, lips a little parted like she's about to speak. That's when I realize I've been holding my breath, because the gasp when I inhale almost chokes me.

Sadie Kelly has lost her job. Until last month, she was a teacher at Horton College – the same high school she went to ten years ago along with her best friend, Fiona. But Fiona died in an accident on their graduation night, in circumstances Sadie's spent the last ten years trying to forget, and since then nothing's been the same.

Now Sadie's back in the small Connecticut town where she grew up, jobless and living temporarily with Fiona's mother. But when she hears that a Horton schoolgirl has gone missing, everything changes. Because the missing girl is Devon Hundley - daughter of Philip Hundley, a man Sadie knows all too well…

My Review:

4 Stars

Sadie is having a rough patch. She was suddenly let go from her job and has to return home. Home to a place that holds as many demons as memories. 

Everything changes when a former pupil goes missing. The school is now under scrutiny and is hoping to contain the volatile situation before losing more if its students and their tuition money. It's up to Sadie to help the students and to also keep her mouth shut about the secrets and demons that lie around the campus. 

An engaging and thrilling story. Filled with secrets and deceptions that run deep. One lost girl brings forward years deception that have long since lied buried deep beneath the surface.