In the second installment of the series featuring police detective A.L. McKittridge, A.L. just gets back to town after a California vacation with Tess (from Ten Days Gone) when his partner calls to inform him that a five year old child is missing. A.L. heads right over to help.
Turns out that Emma Whitman was dropped off at daycare that morning, but no one in the daycare saw her and she wasn’t their when her parent went to pick her up. So, who’s lying? Did the Grandma drop her off? Did someone see her in the building? How did she disappear? A.L. and Rena will definitely get to the bottom of this mystery. The FBI is involved and no one rests until they can find her, but there’s a lot of lies to wade through to find out what really happened. You’ve got adult children spying on their parents, cheaters, liars, and more all jumbled into a web of deceit. Time’s not on the detectives’ sides and little Emma needs to be found as soon as possible. A tip comes in that sends the duo to a town 100 miles away where a similar kidnapping happened 10 years ago, one that’s never been solved. Are the two related? Possibly.
The reason for the four stars instead of five is simple. I figured it out early on. I knew immediately when one thing was mentioned. This wasn’t like Ten Days Gone, this time the clues were much easier to wade through and the culprit was easily identifiable, as was the reason why. The writing is good, I love the character development, A.L. is a formidable character, as is Rena. I wouldn’t want to be in their crosshairs. I can’t wait to see what’s next in this series.
**I received an ARC of this story and this is my honest and voluntary review.

Detective A.L. McKittridge  and his partner Rena Morgan are back with a tough case, this time involving a missing child.

When Emma Whitman's parents report her missing from daycare, it's unclear what has happened. Her grandmother swears she dropped Emma off with her teacher and signed the check-in sheet, but Emma's teacher claims she never saw the child that day. It's obvious someone is lying, but who? A vengeful relative? A spouse trying to hurt the other spouse by taking their child away? Someone at the daycare, or a stranger? With so many questions and suspects,  A.L. and Rena race against the clock hoping to find Emma alive. In doing so, family secrets and lies are exposed and a cold case involving a similar disappearance in a neighboring town is reopened. 

This police procedural is complete with drama, intrigue, and a little romance. I'm really enjoying this series as I love seeing how A.L. and Rena work out their next move, following leads and sometimes dead-ends, to come to a conclusion.

This is one of the best detective mysteries that I have read in a long time. I read this book in one day because I was so hooked on the twists and turns of the story. I am usually really good at figuring out endings but this book had my on the edge of my seat the whole way through and I had no idea what was going to come next.

I enjoyed the characters A.L. and Rena and how hard they were working to solve this case. This book does a fabulous job of portraying a realistic view of what being a detective entails. I also appreciated that Long intersperses the story will the personal lives of both A.L. and Rena, which makes sense since this book is a part of a series. I feel like the addition of their personal lives was also great at building some suspense in the story because I just wanted to keep working at figuring out who took Emma.

If you enjoy detective novels then this is a great one to pick up. I am blown away by how well thought out and written the mystery was. There are so many different threads of where the story went and Long managed to piece it all together beautifully. Even though this book does give some details about what happened in the first book in the series, Ten Days Gone, I still really want to pick it up.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with an ARC of this title in exchange for an honest review.

When a five year old girl goes missing in broad daylight, and no one's stories line up, it's a race against time.

When detective team A.L. and Rena are assigned the case, they learn that everyone has buried secrets. They know that very few children are abducted under these circumstances by strangers, and a ten year old cold case in a nearby town is eerily similar. But the grandmother insists that she dropped the child off and released her to the teacher. The teacher insists that is not the case. The parents are fighting. There is a mysterious vagrant. The grandmother has a shady past of her own.

There were so many threads of possibility in this story, they kept me on my toes. My initial suspicions proved correct, but not in the way I thought.

If you like fast-paced crime stories that will challenge your powers of deduction, you'll love this one.

A missing five year old girl. A grandmother who says she left her at the day care center. A teacher who swears she didn’t. Emma Watson has been gone for twelve hours when the first call comes in. Where is she? This fast paced, hold your breath thriller races through the days following Emma’s disappearance and the painstaking work done by the police assigned to the case.

Detective A.L. McKittridge has only recently returned from a much needed vacation when his partner Rena Morgan alerts him to the situation at the day care. They question the teacher, parents and grandmother. No one is telling the complete truth and A.L. and Rena follow false leads while valuable time is lost. What is going on at the garage Emma’s father owns? What is the problem in the relationship between Emma’s mother and grandmother? How is the case of another little girl who went missing from her day care center five years earlier related?

No One Saw is a suspenseful, chilling read. While this is the second in a series, it is a strong standalone mystery. I loved reading about both detectives’ private lives and how their personal problems impacted their work. Im looking forward to Beverly Long’g next McKittridge mystery! 5 stars.

Thanks to NetGalley, Harlequin and Beverly Long for this ARC.

3.5 stars

This one was a lot stronger than the previous book. This time, when it felt like I was dropped into the middle of the story, I was familiar with the characters.

I still really like AL and Rena. They have a good working relationship, even if I think it’s weird that they don’t really talk about personal stuff. It was delightful seeing Tess again and to get a bit further with Rena and Gabe.

Plot wise, it was good. There’s a lot a lot a lot of characters introduced in the interviewing process and there were a couple of times that I couldn’t remember who was who. The build up was slow and steady and the reveal definitely surprised me.

Overall, it was an entertaining read and I look forward to another book with these two MCs.

**Huge thanks to MIRA for providing the arc free of charge**

It’s one of the worst cases law enforcement can be handed...a missing 5-year old, gone without a trace. By the time Detective A. L. McKittridge and his partner Rena Morgan are notified, little Emma Whitman has been gone for hours. Her grandmother dropped her off at her daycare at 7:30 am and no one knew she was missing until her father arrived to pick her up at 6:30 pm. As A. L. and Rena race to investigate, so many of the people involved keep getting caught in lies, sending the detectives down fruitful and dead end paths. But they are all unanimous in one statement: no one saw anything.

I became a fan of A. L. and Rena after the first book and now I’m completely sold on these two. They’re very different in style and age but read each other perfectly. Even better, they respect and listen to each other. This was a hard case and the procedurals were simply outstanding, delivered at a pace fitting the situation. Once I got started, I was hard pressed to put the book aside. But the story was more than just the case as their personal lives were equally compelling. A. L.’s a divorced single dad of a teenaged daughter and has a new girlfriend (ex-wife has issues). Rena’s grappling with fertility issues and a restless husband who’s going through a career change. Shifting to those storylines wasn’t a distraction as I was just as enamored of them as I was of the search for Emma.

I really enjoyed all aspects of this story, especially as it wasn’t predictable and I hadn’t a clue of how it would be resolved. My gut choice turned out to be correct but I would be misleading you if I failed to acknowledge that I changed my mind several times. This is now considered one of my must read series and I am anxious to see what’s next for this team and the people important to them personally and professionally. It was a great story with all the right confusing angles.

I love missing people stories, and this one was no exception. It reminded me so much of the Kyron Horman case at the beginning--grandmother said she dropped the child off at daycare and left the child with a teacher, when the dad goes to pick up the child at the end of the day, the daycare says she was never there.
Long's second police procedural in this series is excellent. There's a deliberate unfolding of the story through interviews and investigation that makes the reader feel a part of the action. My curiosity about what happened to the child was piqued throughout and I stayed up late into the night to discover the identity of the culprit and the "why" behind it all and I was not disappointed.
I also like that there's just enough revealed of the personal lives of Rena and A.L., yet it doesn't overpower the main mystery. There's a tendency for authors to bog the story down with personal details in an attempt to give the characters depth, but for me it gets annoying when the balance is off. I like the focus on the primary story with small amounts of detail. You don't need to read the series in order necessarily, because each has a self-contained mystery, but you will miss out on that background character development and be a little lost when events from the previous book, Ten Days Gone, are referenced.
Overall this is a satisfying story for mystery and police procedural fans.

No One Saw by Beverly Long is the second the Detective A.L. McKittridge series.

First, let me thank NetGalley, the publisher Harlequin/MIRA, and of course the author, for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

  
Series Background:    (Warning – May contain spoilers from previous books)

A.L. McKittridge is a Detective with the Bayfield Wisconsin Police Department.  He is divorced, and his teenage daughter Traci is his life, although he is now dating Tess.  His sister is an alcoholic.  His partner, Rena Morgan has been married to Gabe for three years, and desperately wants a child.  They have a new boss in Christian Faster, and the verdict is still out.

 
My Synopsis:   (No major reveals, but if concerned, skip to My Opinions)

 A.L. is just back from California, where Tess faced her fear of the ocean after having her arm bit off from a shark attack.  The trip was great, but he was barely in the door when Rena was calling.  Five-year-old Emma Whitman is missing from her day-care center.

Emma's grandmother says she dropped her off, handing her to her teacher.  Emma's teacher says she never saw her.  Emma has been missing all day.  Someone is lying, but there is no evidence as to who, or why.

Emma's parents seem to be having problems, but again, there is no evidence that their problems have anything to do with Emma's disappearance.  They are, however, hiding things....but everyone else is too.

Meanwhile, A.L. is having some issues with his own daughter, and Rena is concerned with the surrogate mother they have chosen.


My Opinions:   

I am definitely enjoying this series.  A.L. and Rena are both really good characters, and their personal lives add depth to them.  They feel "real".

There were a lot of suspects, and they were all viable, so although I had an idea of who it may be, I was never sure.  There were characters I definitely hoped were behind it, mainly because I disliked them, but I was somewhat disappointed.  There were a couple of twists that I definitely didn't see coming.

The overall plot was very good, and the pace was fast.  It held my attention from start to finish....a good mystery.

I'm looking forward to the next in the series.

First of all, thanks to Mira Books and NetGalley for sending me an eARC in exchange for a honest review.
You have to know English isn’t my first language, so feel free to correct me if I make some mistakes while writing this review.


Four months ago I read, always in advance thanks to Mira Books, the first book of this series - "Ten Days Gone". It had been a book that had entertained me, made me wonder until the end who was the culprit and despite the somewhat hasty ending and some missing answers - but not particularly relevant for the purposes of the plot - I felt interested in a follow-up.

This time we have the case of a five-year-old girl who disappears from day care - the grandmother swears that she left her at the entrance and did not accompany her to class because her teacher was in the hall and therefore entrusted her to her by signing the attendance sheet, but on the other side we have the teacher who swears to have been in class all the time (with lots of other parents confirming her presence in the classroom) and that she has never seen the child all day.

Are they both telling the truth? Are they both lying? With two such different versions, one of them has to lie if you want to believe one of the two women - but which one of them?


A.L. and Rena start to investigate, but there's not much to start from.
They start questioning all the family members, the other teachers, the day care director, the parents of the other children - and many testimonials give reason to both women, but Emma Whitman continues to be missing.
A.L. and Rena, however, have no intention of giving up, digging deeply, turning every stone upside down, traveling miles to another town when a trail leads them there - when something makes them think they have finally taken the right path. But they come across many dead ends, many things that lead to nothing and so many lies - because there's not a single character here who does not lie at least about something.

Meanwhile the hours go by and still no sign of Emma.


If the first book found a balance between the case and the private lives of the two detectives because it served to present them, this second definitely leans more towards the case they are investigating - and I felt much more involved. However, I appreciated the updates on their private life - and even those who have not read the first one can understand the events and what they are talking about because there are enough basic elements that explain it - as it gives them that touch of humanity, but I preferred that this time there was a full-immersion in the case they were investigating.

Again I came almost to the end with no certainty as to who the culprit was - of course I had a couple of ideas and theories every now and then, however, they seemed to be disproved by some new element that emerged from the investigation and of course, everyone is lying therefore you can never point your finger at someone in particular for sure because so many people involved give the creeps to the reader or they sound suspicious enough - although perhaps some more than others and perhaps it seems predictable in retrospect, but at some point there's a trail that takes on so much solidity that you are convinced it may be the right one.

Again the ending is a little rushed - not so much for the case itself that it gets resolved with all the explanations without leaving a plot-hole, but more for another case that emerges far from Baywood where the readers find themselves involved and remain intrigued, but which case unfortunately remain without a resolution. It wouldn't have been their jurisdiction however, and I would have liked a little that A.L. and Rena would solve it, but on the other hand it would have made the case they worked on a little too "simplistic" and similar to others that I have already seen in multiple criminal TV shows.

For this second volume I decided to raise his vote by half a point - the style is always flowing and not too complicated by technical terms and it's true that it has no big twists and the investigation has a slow and methodical rhythm, but I must say the case involved me more than the previous one. Should a third book come out, I will not fail to read it.

i was given this ARC from netgalley and publisher for honest review and opinion
this is the second book in the series and didn't know it until i started reading. it was fairly easy to follow along and able to read as a stand alone book.
great mystery book that keeps it alive by trying to figure out who did it. i will be reading the first book by this author. i felt like the characters and sotry were relatable and believeable.

In the second mystery starring small-town Wisconsin homicide detectives A. L. McKittridge and Rena Morgan, a five-year-old inexplicably disappears from her day-care. Oddly, the case bears a close resemblance to a case one hundred miles North, a decade earlier. Of course, the first forty-eight hours are crucial, and while going sleepless to solve the case, A. L. and Rena still have to cope with domestic upheavals and elusive "persons of interest" and individuals who either outright lie or speak truth only selectively.

Police Search for a Missing Child

A.L. McKittridge is just back from vacation when his partner, Rena Morgan, calls to tell him they have a missing five-year-old. Her grandmother dropped her off at the daycare center, but neither the teacher in her classroom nor the director, who was filling in that morning, saw the child.

The disappearance of a child and the possibility of kidnapping have McKittridge and Rena working flat out to discover what happened, but they keep coming up empty. The conclusion is that someone must be lying, but who?

This is an excellent police procedural. The actions by the police are realistic. The main characters come alive as real people. There is just enough of the off duty background for McKittridge and Rena to make them real, but not enough to disrupt the police investigation.

The plot is fast-moving with plenty of twists. It’s hard to guess the ending, but satisfying when you get there.

This is the second book in the A.L. McKittridge series. It’s as good as the first book and promises that this series will be one of my favorites. If you like police procedurals, try this one.

I received this book from Harlequin for this review.

This was a well written police procedural book. This is the second one in the series and it kept me guessing to the end. The two main detectives are very like able and have their own little side stories to add to the mix. I enjoyed the story! Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the early copy

Thank you netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
I was disappointed with this mystery. From the beginning there is a lot of witness interviewing and investigating hearsay but no real action. I lost interest about 50% of the novel and the ending was super anti climatic.

This is the second book I’ve read by Beverly Long and I enjoyed this detective duo and it’s fast-paced story. Good story line, leaves you guessing throughout the book. I really like when I can’t figure out who did it right away, and there are numerous suspects that you believe did it. This one I didn’t see coming. Intriguing read and a mixture of interesting characters. No One Saw is the second book in Beverly Long's A.L. McKittridge series. I enjoyed this book just as much as I did the first one. A wonderful mix of police work and the detective’s personal lives. I think the fact it dealt with a missing child really kept the plot intense for me and I was hooked by the first chapter. I look forward to reading the next book in this series.

This is the second book in the A.L. McKittridge series. A.L. (no, we don't know what it stands for) and his partner, Rena are detectives trying to solve the case of a missing five year old who vanished from her daycare center without a trace. The parents, grandmother and staff of the daycare are all looked at extensively. However, days go by and little Emma is still not found. It looks bleak.

A.L. and Rena work the case tirelessly. They know the longer that Emma is missing the worse the outcome is probably going to be. I can't provide too much of the plot without giving it away so I will just give my two cents. I REALLY enjoy these characters for some reason. The first book, Ten Days Gone, was enjoyable, too. I think the author writes a solid mystery and actually makes them more detailed than some. She delves into backgrounds and makes the storyline more involved than a lot I've read lately. I find this a good thing. I'll be honest when I got the first book, I was leery of the description, but I enjoyed it a lot and was excited to see these characters were back. I'm already hoping for a third book. One question though, Ms. Long. Will we EVER find out what A.L. stands for? lol Good, solid mystery for the summer. Enjoy!

Thank you to Netgalley and to the publisher. More reviews posted online at publication date.

A very slow read with not a lot of action until the end of the book. I liked the mystery and I love the characters which is why I'm giving it a 4 stars. I felt bogged down by reading all of the interviews with different persons of interest. It was somewhat difficult to keep track of everyone who was being interviewed. The resolution was satisfying. I would read another book in this series.

Where's Emma Whitman? How could no one know what happened to a five year old? Her grandmother claims she handed her off to a teacher, the teacher says no. Someone is lying and it's up to Detectives AL and Rena to find the truth- and Emma. This is very much a procedural but its also very much the story of AL and Rena, who are partners and friends. AL has a teen daughter, an ex-wife and a new relationship. Rena has a husband and some issues of her own. That there are secrets in the Whitman family goes without saying. Long does a good job of building suspense in the hunt for Emma- it definitely kept me turning the pages. This is the second in a series but it will be fine as a standalone. Thanks to Edelweiss for the ARC. A fast paced well done read.

This is book two in a series with two detectives, AL McKittridge and Rena Morgan. As is the case with most mystery series, the mystery to be solved is self contained in each book, but there is definitely some character development from book to book with the characters that are consistent from book to book, so I recommend starting at book one, but you won't be too spoiled by reading out of order.

In this book, the detectives are back and called in because a five-year-old has gone missing from a daycare where her grandmother dropped her off in a hurry to start her day. Both parents, grandmother and many others in the book have reasons to lie and may not be the most upstanding adults! There are plenty to not trust in this book and there was one road that the detectives went down that I thought was obviously wrong and may have voiced my opinion to no one!!

As a former employee of a daycare (in my high school years), I read this book with an interesting view from the perspective of the employees. I am also not a parent, so I couldn't completely get into that headspace, but I could sure understand the terror of losing a child.

I enjoyed this second book and am hoping for many more to come!