Don’t Try to Find Me by Holly Brown

Don’t Try to Find Me 
by Holly Brown

Book Jacket
Don’t try to find me. Though the message on the kitchen white board is written in Marley’s hand, her mother Rachel knows there has to be some other explanation. Marley would never run away.

As the days pass and it sinks in that the impossible has occurred, Rachel and her husband Paul are informed that the police have “limited resources.” If they want their 14-year-old daughter back, they will have to find her themselves. Desperation becomes determination when Paul turns to Facebook and Twitter, and launches FindMarley.com.

But Marley isn’t the only one with secrets.

With public exposure comes scrutiny, and when Rachel blows a television interview, the dirty speculation begins. Now, the blogosphere is convinced Rachel is hiding something. It’s not what they think; Rachel would never hurt Marley. Not intentionally, anyway. But when it’s discovered that she’s lied, even to the police, the devoted mother becomes a suspect in Marley’s disappearance.

Is Marley out there somewhere, watching it all happen, or is the truth something far worse?

My Thoughts … 

I have to wonder if there will ever be a book where the teen is missing, that doesn’t have one of the parents as a screw-up that needs to find themselves in order to find their child.

Not to say there was anything wrong with this book … it was an interesting read, and I think that what has happened to Marley, is something that occurs a lot easier now that everyone has access to the internet.  It would have been much more difficult in the past to go ahead with this sort of plan – it would have been more of a get up and leave type thing – rather than making a plan with someone across the country.

Is this a book that I would want to include in my personal library – nope, but for what it was, it was fine.