Twists, turns and betrayal are the name of the game in this stonker of a novel! Sam Carrington has a way of writing that draws you in completely and I was sat in a coffee shop reading this, oblivious to all around me! Excellent all round!

Facebook, the place where we “friend” people we knew years ago and know slightly now, is never the place where we talk with our real friends. But exhausted mom Louisa is getting a surprise birthday party and all her Facebook “friends” are invited. Most of these are people Louisa hasn’t even seen in years, she’s really rather have a long nap. But the party is on and one of the guests is her old boyfriend, Oliver. Shortly after the party Oliver’s wife disappears and no one at the party can quite remember what really happened. There was a lot of alcohol of course, but Louisa believes someone knows the truth about what happened to Melissa and she doesn’t intend to rest until she finds out herself. I’ve been thinking about opting out of Facebook for a while, this may be just the push I needed

Louisa is barely coping with her new baby, teen daughter and sleep deprivation. On top of this her best friend Tiff helps Louisa's husband Brian arrange a surprise 40th birthday party. Wanting to make it an event she will remember Brian finds a long list of guests from Louisa's Facebook friends. Disaster. People she hardly knows or remembers and amongst them charming Oliver - her first love. Then Oliver's wife Melissa goes missing from the party, but was she even there?
Sam Carrington weaves a story of betrayal, deceit and escalating danger. One lie becomes five becomes dozens. Important things Louisa believes are found to be untrue. People she trusted now seem unreliable. Long buried memories resurface. Old secrets are told. Nothing is at it first appears.
Highly readable with a twisting turning plot, a fragile exhausted heroine and proof that sometimes the road to Hell really is paved with good intentions.

Thank you Netgalley for an advanced copy of The Missing Wife.