Ten children accompanied by four teaching staff set off on a day trip to a wilderness park. One of the staff messages the Head Teacher, Mrs Chamberlain, to let her know they’ll be late coming back, but should get home for 5.30 pm.

When 5.30 pm comes and they don’t return, Olivia Chamberlain tells herself that they must be stuck in traffic. But soon, the parents and the Head Teacher become agitated, thinking something must have gone wrong – maybe an accident? Especially when none of the staff are answering their phones and Olivia hasn’t heard from any of them since that text message.

What happened?

I really enjoyed this tense psychological thriller. It’s told from various points of view, including the children’s and the staff’s, which gave me an insight of what their life was like in captivity.

The picturesque village of Littleford was full of secrets, which were slowly revealed as the action unfolded. Some of the parents were quite wealthy and couldn’t risk such exposure.

I was suspecting everyone as one point, but I didn’t guess who was behind it all.

It was my first book by this author, but it won’t be my last.

Thanks to One More Chapter for approving my NetGalley request to read and review this title.

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Review for 'The Vanishing Of Class 3b' by Jackie Kabler.

Read and reviewed via Netgalley for Jackie Kabler, One More Chapter publishing and Rachel's Random Resources Tours.

Publication date 11th May 2023.

This is the first book I have read by this author.

I was originally drawn to this book by its eye catching cover and its intriguing synopsis and title. I must admit I was also biased due to the publisher being One More Chapter. I have yet to read a book published by One More Chapter that I haven't enjoyed. Hopefully this won't be the first... Watch this space! (Written before I started reading the book).

This novel consists of 52 chapters. The chapters are short in length so easy to read 'just one more chapter' before bed...OK, I know yeah right, but still just in case!

This book is set in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 , UK 🇬🇧. I always seem to get on with books that are set in the UK better as I am from Wales and have sometimes visited places mentioned in the book.

This book is written in third person perspective with several protagonists.The benefits of third person perspective with multiple protagonists are that it let's you see the bigger picture of what's going on and you get to know more characters more, what they are thinking and what they are doing. It feels like you get to see the whole picture and not miss out in anything. To have the benefit of both first and third person perspective ensures you don't miss out on anything.

Well, Well, Well I did NOT expect that bombshell of an ending!!! Absolutely LOVED THIS compelling, gripping and addictive page turner!!!

Wow!!! What a rollercoaster ride of a read!!! Fantastically written with vivid descriptions throughout making me feel like I was in the storyline. The synopsis, title and cover suited the plot perfectly.

I could not put this book down and read it in one sitting!!! It is one of those books that each and every time I said one more chapter and then bed something happened so there was no chance I could put it down so I ended up walking around with my kindle glued to my hands until I had devoured it in one go!! . The storyline was absolutely gripping and kept me up until the early hours of the morning as I could not put it down!! I absolutely love how intriguing, complex and multi-layered the storyline is with so much going on!!! I was sitting on the edge of my seat with a pounding heart and my jaw dropping as Jackie takes us on a psychological ride of suspense and tension!!! I must say as a parent this has got to be one of my worse nightmares!! The worse part is that my eldest son has three trips coming up next month and if I thought I was nervous then it was nothing compared to how Jackie has me feeling now!! Just imagine,you drop your excited children off to school for a class trip to a wildlife park. Unfortunately when you get there there is a problem with the bus!!! However,the day is saved when a local taxi company comes up with another vehicle to take the children and off they go. However, because of the late start the children will be late getting home. Things take a turn for the worse when hours after the later time and there is still no news from the bus and nobody can get hold of the teachers. The bus is later found but there is far from relief when a discovery is made!!! We are told the story from the perspectives of the parents, children, teachers and police and the deeper we delve into the story the more we discover. What are the parents hiding? What is going on? How can a whole class go missing ???? You'll just have to pick your copy up today to find out more as there's no chance I want to spoil this explosive thriller for anyone. I was absolutely gobsmacked when everything was revealed, absolutely explosive twists which I was not expecting!!! A HUGE congratulations to Jackie on that as it is definitely getting harder and harder to shock me but you most definitely did that!!! There were points where my heart was in my throat and I was on the edge of my seat, and then the edge of my bed as I was not putting this book down until I finished!!! I loved that everything was tied up nicely at the end as a pet hate of mine is loose ends and having something mentioned in a book that the author seems to then forget about but absolutely everything was explained by the end of this one. I must also admit that I was shocked that I was actually pleased by the outcome when I should have been angry and wanted more justice but I think someone definitely deserved to get and receive justice and Jackie gave it out perfectly!!! It is rammed with bombshells, revenge, deceipt, heartache, secrets, twists, lies, and absolutely everything you could ask for in an explosive psychological thriller! I was absolutely mind blown by some of the secrets that were coming out and just when I thought they had all been told BOOM another shocker!!! The ending was definitely the biggest twist and I would not have seen that one coming in a million years!! This book would make a fantastic movie!!

Clear your schedules before glancing into this absolutely addictive and explosive psychological thriller as once your hooked there's no letting go until the very end!!


The characters were all strong, realistic and very well developed. I was completely invested in each and every one of their stories. They all had such unique personalities and I felt different about each of them, liking them or not trusting them for different reasons. It is hard to say much about any of them really without giving anything away so I will go by how I felt before certain announcements were made. My heart completely went out to so many of the characters, shocking myself with some of them who I felt sorry for and as I said previously as a parent this really is a parents worse nightmare!!! Unfortunately I really cannot say anymore at the risk of giving anything away with the amount of secrets kept and revealed so again you'll just have to go and grab your copy today!! Jackie brings each of the characters to life with her fantastic writing skills and between the characters and the plot you will be left absolutely gobsmacked!! Regardless of whether you love or hated the characters they all worked perfectly well to make this a page turning psychological thriller!!

I absolutely loved your book Jackie and congratulations on yet a HUGE success . I cannot wait to read more of what promises to be heart stopping reads. I would definitely like to welcome you to my top 5 favourite female psychological thriller author list and Here's to your next success 🥂.


Overall a heart pounding, page turning, edge of your seat psychological thriller filled with explosive twists that will keep you up late at night.


Genres covered in this novel include Womens Crime Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Women Sleuths, Psychological Thriller, Literary Fiction, Womens Psychological Fiction, Suspense Thriller, Psychological Literary Fiction, Crime Fiction, Women Writers & Fiction, Mystery , Women's Literary Fiction, Psychological Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Mystery ,Thriller & Suspense Literary Fiction, Psychological Suspense, Womens New Adult & College Fiction and Thriller amongst others.

I would recommend this book to the fans of the above as well as fans of Lisa Jewell, 'The Girl on the Train' ,Ruth Ware, Paula Hawkins, Gillian Flynn , Shari Lapena 'Gone Girl', 'The Wife Between Us', 'The Housemaid' and anyone looking for a mind blowing psychological thriller!

353 pages.

This book is just 99p to purchase on kindle and £8.95 in paperback (at time of review) via Amazon or which I think is an absolute bargain for this book!!!

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It’s a sunny April day in the Cotswolds. A white Ford Transit bus is taking a class of kids aged seven and eight from Littleford Primary on a school day trip. Ten members of Class 3B are on this particular trip with four members of staff accompanying them – Erica Lindsay (Year 2 teacher), Dominic Moore (Year 2 teaching assistant), Cally Norman (Year 3 teacher) and Oscar Jones (Year 1 teacher). But that evening, the bus doesn’t return. Where are they?
We get to know the parents of the missing children - Ben Townsend and his wife Monique, TV chef Eldon Beckford and his wife Amy, Eugene Pearson and his wife Polly, single mum Rosie Duggan, ex-footballer Spike Greer and his wife Tasha, same-sex parents Brett and Jon MacDonald-Cook, Vanessa and Alex Carr, Clare Tustain and her husband Nick and TV chat show host Reynold Lyon and his model wife Petra.
There’s also the school headteacher Olivia Chamberlain and the Cotswolds Police with DSU Sadie Stewart and DCI Daniel Sharma, so there are a lot of characters but it was easy to get to know them and didn’t become confusing.
Of course, all the parents seem to have a deep, dark, hidden secret. Could that have anything to do with the vanishing of Class 3B?
It’s a great idea for a story and I was into the action straight away, wanting to know what happened to the class and how something could happen to a bus, four teachers and ten children. It’s definitely intriguing and of course, the stakes are high with young kids involved.
It’s a pacy read and definitely a page-turner. The chapters are a good size too, so it’s tempting to just read another one! I really enjoyed the book and would like to read more of the author’s books.
9 out of 10

I really enjoyed this book even though I was slightly overawed by the sheer number of children’s and parents’ names in the beginning. It was very well plotted with some characters staying with you even after the end of the book. I don’t want to give away too much of the plot but needles to say, the story is about the vanishing of a class of children after a school trip, which must be every parents nightmare. Good ratcheting of tension and a satisfying ending.

My attention was immediately captured by the title of this book (the educator in me) but I was a little lot nervous to start reading (again, the educator in me) as losing a student, let alone an entire class, is anxiety enducing! So glad I took a deep breath and made myself just start!

Oh, but Kabler's story was well done. I loved how I was guessing between something sinister or something magical being behind the disappearance. There is a wide cast of characters but it is very easy to keep them straight. I also found the timeline jumps between narrators easy to follow and that they added to the intrigue and the suspense.

I also really appreciate that there is hatred and vileness in the book, but Kabler kept it away from the children!

I absolutely enjoyed this book!

I received a dARC from Netgalley via the publisher; this is my honest review.

This was a unique and addicting book that I couldn't put down!! It starts out almost immediately with an entire bus of kids going missing on the way home from a field trip. I loved all the different POV in it as well.

The Vanishing of Class 3B is a fast paced, tense read full of surprises. As a Teaching Assistant in a primary school it’s also a little to close to home for comfort!
I enjoyed the build up as we got to know more about the parents as the horror of the disappearance unfolded. Each character with seemingly something to hide.

The Vanishing Of Class 3B was a great read, I raced through this just to find out where these children were.
Ten children and their school teachers are setting off for a day out t their new minibus has a fault, the children aren’t happy but one of the teachers manages to get a replacement from the taxi firm in the village. Off they all go for a glorious day out until home time comes and there’s no sign of them, the teachers mobiles are all turned off and no one knows where they are. All the parents have a secret of some kind, some worse than others and it is this the kidnapper wants to pick up on. Money to be paid or the secrets out. Which parent and how can they raise the money?
This was a very twisty read with lots of misdirection, as I am a parent it seemed very believable as I think we’ve all been there when children have been a few minutes late and you have that doubt creep up so this book played well on these emotions.
I would like to thank Netgalley and HarperCollins UK, One More Chapter for this ARC I received in exchange for an honest review.

Suspense until the very end!

Thanks NetGalley, HarperCollins UK and One More Chapter for the ARC!

I read #TheMurderList by Kabler last year and enjoyed it so much! Glad that her latest delivered on my expectations too.

How does an entire class of 3rd grade kids and a few teachers simply vanish on a day trip? Read to find out!

#TheVanishingClassof3B is juicy and entertaining thriller that will keep you speculating and pointing fingers all the way! A small town mystery that is set in a pretty quaint village in the Cotswolds involving its esteemed primary school and some of their very wealthy, famous parents.

Kabler is a police procedural specialist and her skills are their best here. Once the detectives are involved and the parents are questioned – we start getting an insight into each of the couples.

Although there are a lot of characters, I never had difficulty keeping track and pretty soon I had a grip on the parent-children pairs and their backgrounds. Several dropped hints about some of their dubious on goings and pasts, made them all potential suspects.

As the time ticks by, the tension and suspense build at a steady tempo. The blame games commence and the plot gains momentum - rife with gossip, drama, lies, betrayals and hidden secrets of the past.

The multiple POV works wonders, making us choke with curiosity, anxiety and serious concern for the safety of these little ones. Soon a web from the past unfurls and everything starts making sense.

The twisty and dramatic ending delivered on all the thrill and entertainment one can hope for!

Highly recommend if you love a great small town mystery!

There is much excitement as the Class 3B gather to go on a school trip. The Cotswold Primary school is well organised & usually they use the luxurious minibus bought with generous contributions from the parents however when it doesn't start they have to use a somewhat well used hire bus. Nevertheless the ten children & four staff set off. When they are late returning at first no-one is too worried but as the hours pass the parents & head become seriously worried Then the bus is found with the badly beaten body of one of the staff on board. The police have no clues. How can they just disappear?

The story is told through the eyes of various characters, the parents, the Head, the police & from inside the hiding place. This kept me glued to the page & totally engaged. I really enjoyed this one. Thanks to Netgalley & the publisher for letting me read & review this book.

I really tried to like this book because the premise itself seemed so interesting. While the plot was great, the characters felt flat to me, and I just didn't connect with them at all.

So many secrets!

This was a good easy read which I really appreciated as i just wanted one more page! Then it's midnight and I'd finished.

The Vanishing of Class 3B is a fantastic read. It is full of secrets and lies and just how far some will go for revenge. There are plenty of twists and turns which I did not see coming and I just could not put it down.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for my ARC.

Waving your young children off on a school trip is meant to be a momentous occasion: seeing them go off, all happy and excited without you is a sign they’re growing up and exploring the world. It’s time to embrace their absolute joy and not feel as though they don’t need you anymore. It’s tough, but it’s a rite of passage… until they don’t return home. Then, your worst fears are realised and you need them back, safe under your protection. But you’re powerless, this is beyond your control and you have to trust others – namely, the police – to find them… alive and well.
As a premise, this is such a compelling story, and seeing how the parents react is fascinating,especially when the twist comes and their own behaviour comes under scrutiny from those in this small circle of friends and neighbours, courtesy of very cryptic demands from the kidnappers.
Tension increases, friction drives a wedge between the parents and the police, and then amongst the parents themselves.
When the perspective shifts to the children, the reader gets an insight into how they’re being treated, who is coping and isn’t, and this lays the path towards a resolution. An intriguing style that really pays off in balancing the parents’ concerns with the kidnappers approach to keeping the children calm.
Engrossing and engaging, well-paced and with an ending that might raise an eyebrow or two as to its credibility.
Miscategorised as new adult and college fiction though as the children are much, much younger

I had a lot of fun in reading this novel: it's like watching a tv series about the life of rich and famous people and their secrets.
There's an original idea, the disappeareance of an entire class, and the author delivers an entertaining story that kept surprising me.
I would have preferred a more structure closing chapter but it's a very entertaining and gripping story.
Recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher for this arc, all opinions are mine

Ten children and several teachers/helpers go on a school trip to a wildlife park and then vanish. As they were about to leave the school, their very new minibus had a fault which meant a replacement had to be quickly found. A message was sent from one of the staff to say they would be later back than anticipated due to the initial delay. None are answering their phones and there are no reports of heavy traffic or accidents on the route. Some of the children are from famous parents and most are wealthy. Could this be a kidnapping? What on earth could have happened? Several of the parents have secrets or something they wish to hide either from the world or just their partner. When a message comes through from the kidnappers, who has the real secret and just who is going to have to pay?
This is a very cleverly thought out concept- a whole bus load of people missing rather than just one or two and hence the logistics of how this could be done. At the beginning I found myself thinking “ how on earth is this going to pan out?”. I quickly found myself invested in the story and the snippets of information along the way to try and find out the who’s and why’s. A read that very much kept me engrossed the whole way through and one where I kept turning and turning. A brilliant premise and one very skilfully written. Loved it.

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When a bus of primary school children fails to come home from a day trip to a wildlife park, the well heeled, wealthy and a few famous parents soon come under the spotlight. What has happened to the children and who has them.

The book centres around the secrets we all keep and how far someone will go to get their revenge. An easy beach read of a thriller with a twist at the end I didn’t see coming.

Thanks to the publishers and Netgalley for the advanced copy.

This review will be published on www.instagram.com/kayleyisreading week commencing 22nd May!

R E V I E W:

Things I loved about this one:

✅ small countryside village vibes
✅ lots of characters who are intertwined with secrets galore
✅ you get information as the characters do
✅ tension building plot lines, full of DRAMA
✅ twists right until the last page!

This one had it all! Tension, suspense, drama, you name it, it’s in here.

I found the characters entirely frustrating, they all secrets they were desperate to keep which sometimes appeared to be at the expense of their children. I did like the addition of lots of badly behaved wealthy people as that's a set of characters I always find myself enjoying!

The ending had lots of little twists and turns to finish it off, which was quite exciting, however I could have done with one last chapter wrapping up how all of the characters were impacted after the revelation of their secrets. There was no loose ends, I just wanted a little bit more.

I would recommend this one to mystery thriller lovers! 🕵🏻‍♀️

R A T I N G:

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Thank you for the opportunity to read and review this book.

I found some of this a little far fetched but still a good read.

Cotswolds

Today, 10 - 7 and 8 year old students of Littleford Primary School, plus 4 staff members are heading out for the day to the Cotswold Wilderness Park. When they go to board the school’s bus, it shows mechanical trouble, so another bus is brought in and they all depart.

As the time arrives for them to return, they are late. But the bus is not seen on cameras along the way and there is not much traffic on the road they are taking. Parents and school officials are panicking as the night drags on.

As we read along in the book, it’s hinted that some of the parents may be hiding something. But what could that be? As the tension mounts, secrets surface among the parents and much is revealed.

I liked this book but some things felt a bit off. The police didn’t seem to have much pull to get out and comb the area looking for places these people could have been taken. They mostly drank coffee and worried in place. When the ending is revealed, I felt like the reason for taking these children was overdone. However, the “air was cleared” finally among the parents. Sounds rather vague I know but I don’t want to reveal any spoilers.

Copy provided by NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.