Everyone Here Is Lying by Shari Lapena

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Fast paced and enjoyable, this was a pretty good book! Everyone Here Is Lying tells the story of a nine year old girl Avery who went missing after returning home from school one day. Police finds several possible suspects, as quite a few neighbors have some secrets. We find out in the end what happened.

SPOILER ALERT!!

Avery's father, a charismatic doctor named William, is cheating on his wife Erin, with a nurse at work named Nora. On the day of the disappearance, William saw Avery at home. They got in an argument and William slapped her. He left the house for a drive to cool down. He didn't tell the police he had seen Avery at the house because he didn't want to admit to the argument they had and make himself look suspicious. Of course the police figured that out later anyway, and discovered about his affair too. Nora, who's husband Al had already known about the affair for some time, potentially looks suspicious too. Another neighbor who's also a nurse at William's practice, Marion, sent in an anonymous tip to implicate Nora's son, Ryan. Another neighbor's son, Derek, was a suspect too because Michael (Avery's brother) said he saw Derek and Avery alone together in a treehouse weeks ago. Later, we find out that it was Marion who abducted Avery and kept her hostage in her basement. Detectives later figured out who the anonymous tipper is, by going door to door and recognized Marion's voice as the caller. Marion says she didn't want to give her name because her ex was abusive. Detectives believed this initially, but later realized she didn't move away from her ex, so it would be easy for him to locate her anyway. In the meanwhile, Avery starts realizing that Marion plans on killing her. Marion tries to drug her by putting drugs in her milk. Avery pushes her down the stairs and kills her. Just as Avery is trying to get out of there, she runs into the detective at the door. Avery is rescued. She loves the attention even though her mom tries to shield her away from it. She's eventually allowed to have an interview, where she slips up and admits her abduction was planned with Marion. Marion is in love with William, so she wanted to destroy Nora by framing her son Ryan. Avery wanted to teach her dad a lesson for hitting her, but she never knew Marion planned on killing her until later. So she said Marion "double crossed" her. The book ends on this revelation. This was a pleasant 4/5 stars for me. 

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