POV ~ multiple 3rd
Featuring ~ police procedural, secrets

Ah my mama heart. As terrible as it sounds I do like a missing child plot and in this one we have 10 missing children and 4 missing adults.

Our main narrators are parents: Reynold, Clare & Ben. Olivia is headmaster of Littleford Primary School and Sadie & Daniel are our detectives. We hear from one of the teachers in The Bunker and The Visitor too. And excitingly we hear from one of the children, Luca, to ease our pounding hearts just a little to let us know what's going on where they are, but in turn it decreased the suspense since we knew they were okay.

There are so many different POV's that it does have some repetition, but I wasn't too bothered by that because we are slowly given little nuggets about why the children might have been kidnapped. Some things were pretty predictable and I wasn't thrilled with the 2 similar secrets from the parents. And the secret that started this all, while on the terrible side, was not really groundbreaking IMO.

On to the police ~ I could just feel how tired they were from working nonstop, but do I feel they could've been a little quicker and a smidgen more thorough. I won't give much away, but this could have been wrapped up quicker than it was. They made a few questionable choices as well.

Overall, not perfect, but enjoyable and fast paced. The ending was rather surprising.

Cover gripe ~ there are 2 options, but I'm not in love with either. Maybe the school bus one if I had to choose, but I'd have liked it to look like the one described. I do like that the yellow lettering matches the lock though.

What a riveting thriller. How could so many children and adults just disappear.. did they have an accident.. or is something more sinister afoot.

These kind of chilling events aren’t common but would be any parents worse nightmare.

What I particularly liked is that the story plays on your emotions. the unknown. We’ve all sat there a some point and have over-thought a situation and the worst possible outcome and this book plays nicely into this fear.

There’s quote a few twists and misdirection to keep you on your toes but as time goes by things start to heat up as revelations are revealed, all this is setup quickly but plays on throughout, smouldering all the way until the truth is revealed right at the end.

With a plot like this I feel it’s hard to really develop the characters as motivations can be hidden but the author did a great job of setting the scenes and injecting detail just when you needed it.

Overall The Vanishing of Class 3B is packed full of suspense and misdirection, leading to an enthralling read.

A bus full of children and teachers goes on a day trip. At night parents wait for them, but the bus doesn't show up. The deeper we dive into the story, the more secrets unfold.
It's an interesting concept, but I couldn't get into the story.

I got the ARC, all thoughts are my own

Super Thrilling and Suspenseful.......................
The Vanishing of Class 3B by Jackie Kabler is an incredible mystery thriller. A school bus full of students vanish into thin air without a clue. All the parents are baffled. The plot is so interesting that you would not be able to take your eyes off. You can literally feel the tension while reading. Bit by Bit the plot unfolds with each character under suspicion. I just could not wait to finish the book to know the real culprit. And, it is sure that you would not find a thriller like this.

Definitely 5 stars for the book. Thanks to Netgalley for providing me with an opportunity to read and review the book.

First, I want to thank Jackie Kabler, Harper Collins, NetGalley and Rachel’s Random Resources for providing me with this book so I may bring you this review.

O.M.G. Jackie Kabler has me questioning whether to send my niece and nephew on a school field trip! The Vanishing Class of 3B is every parent and teacher’s worst nightmare become reality! You will be wanting to hug your little ones a little tighter after this read! This is a scenario that surely could play out in the headlines! I don’t know where she got her inspiration but dang this was such an addictive read!! This is a book that every parent and teacher will be talking about long after they have finished the book!

The Vanishing Class of 3B deserves way more than 5 stars in my opinion! The storyline was fresh, It was totally addicting where I was literally glued to my Kindle, my heart strings were pulled hard as my heart ached for the parents, it had so many twists and turns, oh and the secrets that were revealed were unbelievably shocking! I just loved it so much and could not get enough!

I loved how Jackie pulled out every emotion possible within her characters. You couldn’t help but feel empathetic to the characters in their worry, panic, and anxiety over where their children were. Heck, I would be the same way if not worse!

What I found interesting were some of the parents were famous in the entertainment industry! Each of them having a very interesting backstory!

Jackie totally shocked me with the secrets, revelations and jaw dropping climatic ending!! This is one ending I never ever in a million years saw coming! Jackie is good!

The Vanishing Class of 3B is a book that I would love to be turned into a series on Netflix! I would totally be binge watching it if that ever became reality!

As a parent and a primary school teacher this book encompasses my worst nightmare. How does an entire class disappear on a school trip without a trace? And what secrets are lurking in the playground?
I love a multi perspective story and short chapters jumping around each main character really made this an edge of my seat read. The perspectives of different parents slowly reveal lives behind closed doors and not everything is perfect in this idyllic village in the Cotswolds. The slow reveal of clues about each character and then finding out their secrets added to the tension and made me suspicious of everyone. I love trying to play detective when I read crime novels (even though I am terrible at it). I suspected everyone and I loved this.
Occasional chapters added in from the police perspective and one of the children add intensity although I would have liked more of the investigation (I love a police procedural).
The different reactions from the adults was really well done. People react to situations I different ways and this was captured really well in the various ways the parents dealt with things.
I really enjoyed this book and yes, you do have to suspend a bit of reality, but it’s such a suspenseful and fun book to participate in rather than just read.
A very enjoyable and exciting thriller!

Jackie Kabler is at her most ingenious in her creepy, unsettling and terrifying new thriller that brings every parent’s worst nightmare to chilling life: The Vanishing Class of 3B.

It is a beautiful spring morning and there is great excitement at a Cotswolds primary school as the day many of the pupils had been waiting for has finally arrived. A bus full of children and their teachers are heading off on a much-anticipated day trip. As their parents wave them off, the pupils head off for a memorable day out, however, as night falls and the parents wait at the school gates to collect their weary offspring, impatience turns to alarm and trepidation when the hours start ticking by and there is absolutely no sign whatsoever of the school bus.

Where are the children? How can an entire class of children possible vanish off the face of the earth in one morning? Have they been in an accident? Or could something even more sinister and terrifying have taken place? Could this disappearance have something to do with the parents? Or might the teachers be somehow responsible for this shocking incident?

Will the missing children ever be returned back to their parents? Or has every single child in 3B vanished into thin air?

In the crowded field of psychological crime thrillers, Jackie Kabler continues to stand head and shoulders above many of the competition by taking risks, pushing the envelope and redefining the word unputdownable every time by writing nail-biting page-turners that leave readers breathless with a heart-stopping blend of tension, jeopardy and suspense.

A surefire hit from a writer at the top of her field, Jackie Kabler’s The Vanishing Class of 3B is an exciting, unpredictable and superb thriller that kept me reading until the early hours of the morning – don’t miss it.

Rating: 4.5 Stars

The school has taken the children out for the day, they've all piled onto the school bus and are looking forward to having fun, and a day away from school.

Their idea of fun certainly wasn't being shut into a filthy room with old books and toys as their source of entertainment though, but this is what they got.

Blimey, Kabler knows how to keep you teetering on the edge of your seat doesn't she?

It was a little slow in starting, but the pace soon picks up, the adrenalin flows and the race is soon underway to locate and rescue the children. The story is narrated from multiple POV and is cleverly plotted. The characters are all fabulously flawed and soon their secrets and lies begin to emerge, as the tension builds and the kidnapper ups their ransom.

I really enjoyed The Vanishing of Class 3b, it's compelling, exciting and it's so hard to tear yourself away from the book...just one more chapter...

Many thanks to Rachel's Random Resources for my tour spot.

Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐

What a frustrating book. I was with it until about 70/75% of the way in, then the ending just ruined it for me by being so far fetched. It was frustrating enough to have to wait until around 50% of the way through before any of the major “secrets” were revealed (2 of the 3 were easily guessed), but then the ending with the big, etched out life-plan was just too much. I don’t know if the author has ever applied for a teaching job in a 1-form entry school, but you’d be more likely to see a flying pig than to have two siblings as teachers in one. A great concept but just let down by the ending.

I found it so disappointing to not enjoy this book. It started off strong and then devolved into a book about a bunch of adults who are all pretty messed up. I mean, yes, we all have secrets. I really hope we aren't this horrible or ridiculous. So the entire middle of the book was just a drag through the lives of some bad people. The reveal was anticlimactic. You killed someone and kidnapped kids for this? And who the bad guys are, including the reveal of The Visitor, didn't make up for the middle. There was way too much coincidence and unbelievable situations.

The Vanishing of Class 3B’ is an engaging thriller which kept me on my toes. It was a quick read which I read in a day and I found it to be very entertaining. This is the first book of the author’s which I have read but I will be keeping an eye for more as I did really enjoy this book!

One morning a class from a Cotswold primary school and there teachers head off on a class trip. As evening draws near the class hasn’t returned and the school and the parents are starting to get worried. The parents are a well healed bunch, with some minor celebrities in the mix. They are used to getting what they want and are desperate for the return of their children. How can a whole class of children just disappear? And why?!

I loved that there was a large roster of characters here to really keep the reader guessing about what is important and what were red herrings! It seems that the parents have alot of secrets and is one of them responsible for what has happened? The short chapters and multiple pov’s means you can fly through this book and it also allows the tension to build up thorough out the story. The pov’s from the kids were great though and some of my favourite chapters!

Let me know if you pick this one up!

This was a unique and tense thriller. It starts out almost immediately with an entire bus of kids going missing on the way home from a field trip. The book goes back and forth through the POVs of 4 of the parents, the headmaster of the school, and the police who are trying to solve the case. Everyone has secrets and the question becomes which of those secrets is the one that caused this to happen.

The story was engaging, with regular secrets being uncovered. I actually kind of liked a couple of the characters that I don't think I was supposed to like, but I felt that there was just a very human element to some of the things they were trying to keep hidden. A couple of the kids were really likable as well. I did figure out one of the twists early but didn't put the entire thing together until much later. I will say that the reasons why the villain did what they did seemed a little far-fetched to me, but it was still twisty and enjoyable to read about.

Overall, I enjoyed the book and found it to be a unique storyline with legitimate twists. I'd recommend it to those who like the suspense genre. Thanks to Netgalley for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This is a book that I can honestly say had my head in a complete spin. It was chock full of twists and turns and at times I just managed to keep up with all that was going on which I loved. This was definitely my type of read, a book where I had no clue who the guilty person was and didn’t know what to expect from chapter to chapter. The Vanishing of Class B is a twisty crime thriller that at times had me on the edge of my seat.

The Vanishing of Class 3B by Jackie Kabler is a suspensful psychological thriller/ police procedural fusion.
One narrative voice is followed by another, so that we get a different point of view to get closer to the truth. And the truth is not very palatable, whichever side you follow. Different points of view criss-cross, clash and build the whole picture bit by bit.

It's hard to relate to any of the adults in this story. Self-absorbed and egocentric, they appear to be more concerned about keeping their skeletons in the closet, and not sharing any relevant information with the police. Though to be fair, the police don't come out as particularly competent during the investigation.

I found the motives of the mastermind behind the kidnapping operation rather far-fetched. The people who devised this plan, are egomaniac, devious and callous.

The premises of the story sounds promising, there is plenty of twists in turns, but the ending is rushed.

The plotline reminded me a lot of In Safe hands by J.P. Carter, where a group of children is snatched from the nursery school. It also deals with the distressed parents and the rather convoluted plans hatched by the kindnappers.

The Vanishing of Class 3B is a chilling crime thriller, with dark undertones. Gripping and tense, it's an inventive game of cat-and-mouse.

Full review is published on my blog as part of #BlogTour with Rachel's Random Resources.

This book blew me away! Every little piece of the plot was well thought out and kept you guessing through the entire story!

It's a typical day in a little village named Littleford. A group of 10 children and 4 teachers board a minibus for a field trip. Only it's not the brand new Mercedes minibus, it's a reliable clunker rented from a local taxi company. So when the children and teachers don't return as expected, with no communication, there is no GPS tracker on the bus. None of the teachers are answering their phones, and the children aren't allowed phones. And it's starting to get dark.

While the parents and school personnel imagine the various scenarios that might be happening (no cell service, traffic emergencies, an accident), when police are called on the scene they are starting to suspect that this might be a kidnapping. But when no ransom call comes in, even with a few wealthy parents among the group, the police are stymied - where could a bus and 10 kids and 4 adults have disappeared to?

And then the call comes with the startling message, "One of you has a secret. We know what it is. And if you want to keep it a secret, it's time to PAY."

Throughout the book, we're privy to a few secrets the parents are hiding. But when the parents get together we learn there is more than one family with a secret. But whose is big enough for a ransom?

I thoroughly enjoyed Kabler's use of suspense as she built her characters around a situation many parents fear but think could never happen to them, all the while maintaining the suspense and moral choices these families must make.

Thanks to NetGalley and One More Chapter for an advance reader's copy.

Thank you HarperCollins UK, One More Chapter, One More Chapter and Netgalley for this arc. I loved every book I read by this author and this is a great suspance again. One of the books I wanted and got it all. The suspance, mystery, till the end I was in the dark. But this dark I liked a lot.

I liked the premise for the book- a bit different from other psychological thrillers on the shelves, but it fell a bit flat from my expectations.
I thought some of the characters were a bit too clichéd and a lot of the dialogue quite wooden. Having worked in primary schools all my life, it was simply unrealistic on every level eg swapping a mini bus, having 4 teachers on a trip etc etc. Maybe I shouldn't have read it but I feel.as though the author should have researched more thoroughly about a schools response/ staff reactions etc.
The tension surrounding the disappearance was built up well and the hidden secrets added another tingle. Unfortunately the ending was rather rushed.

As a parent, one of your greatest fears is your child going missing. But what happens if you have entrusted your child with their school teachers and they go missing? That's what faces the parents of Class 3B, when the minibus containing 10 children and four teachers goes AWOL on the way back from a class trip in the Cotswolds.

Littleford is an upmarket primary school, with many wealthy parents, but some 'normal' ones too, and we meet them as the narrative unfolds. There's TV presenter Reynold, celebrity chef Eldon and hard-working Clare, all with their own secrets.

This is what makes the book so riveting; there's the mysterious missing minibus but also the back-stories of the parents, We're drip fed elements of both as we read, which makes it all the more frustrating if you have to stop!

The Vanishing of Class 3B is a cracking read, full of suspense and tension as well as an overwhelming sense of 'I'm glad that's not my child' !!

The scene setting in this domestic psychological suspense is wonderfully atmospheric. Everything appears normal and recognisable, the parents waiting for the school trip to leave, most parents will relate to this, but then the reader glimpses under the veneer of everyday respectability, and the suspense builds. With each revelation, the mystery deepens, and the fate of the innocent is increasingly bleak. The interesting characterisation, plot twists and relationship dynamics make this addictive and immersive. I like the atmospheric and chilling ethos, the contrast between ordinary and extraordinary and the complex characters.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher.

This is a dark thriller about the unimaginable situation of your child’s school trip coach disappearing with the pupils and teachers onboard and nobody knows where they are or what has happened. When the bus is found abandoned and one teacher left fighting for her life it’s a race against time to find out what is going on and why they have been taken and as things take a darker turn secrets and lies spill out from all parties. I can’t say any more without spoiling this but it’s a great read.