Book Review: ‘The Lucky One: A Novel’ By Lori Rader-Day

Two women who have never met have a lot more in common than they ever could have imagined. When Alice was young she was kidnapped for a few hours and remembers it vaguely. She was rescued pretty quickly and ever since her father has been over-protective.

Merrily Cruz has questions of her own about things in her life. Rick who was involved with her mother years ago but has all but ghosted over the years, with the exception of a few texts here and there, has now vanished. He has shown up on a website called The Doe Pages, a site that can help reunite people that have missing with their families.

Rick’s face appears on the site and Alice recognizes him as the man who took her. She and her friends start an investigation into Rick and his life and it leads them to Merrily and her mother. Something seems off with her mother and what she might know. The more they investigate, the more questions they find and answers hard to come by. But the amateur sleuths won’t give up and soon they start piecing things together and learn shocking truths. Truths that hit close to home and could cause one or more of them to lose their lives.

A suspenseful thriller with lost of twists and turns you don’t see coming. It keeps the reader on the edge of your seat as events unfold, leading up to a thrilling reveal and climax.

You can pick up The Lucky One in stores on Tuesday, February 18th from Morrow.