Synopsis: I Am Watching You starts with a woman (Ella) watching two teenage girls on a train as they start chatting to two guys just out of jail. The next day one of the girls has gone missing and Ella is wracked with guilt at not calling one of the girls’ mothers and intervening.
The rest of the story follows the points of view of 4 people – the witness (Ella), the father (Henry), the investigator (Matthew), and the friend (Sarah). After a few chapters it moves forwards one year, the teenager Anna Ballard has still not been found and Ella has started to get threatening letters. As the story moves on it becomes clear that there is more to the story, everyone has secrets of their own and some are lying about what happened the night Anna disappeared.
Review: Every review I write for a mystery/suspense/thriller style book always includes me going on about how much I love this genre, and this love is so important because it leads to high expectations which unfortunately were not met in this case.
This story has good potential. Yes, everyone had secrets, not all of them relevant to Anna’s disappearance, which I enjoy as it keeps you guessing. And it was interesting to hear how Anna’s disappearance affected the different people in her life. However, there was not enough information given to the reader throughout the book to keep them invested. Multiple chapters ended with a vague statement with the intention of generating suspense – something along the lines of ‘she couldn’t tell anyone what she knew’ – but there was very little resolution to these statements which quickly lost their impact.
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