The Missing Place, by Sophie Littlefield
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The Missing Place, by Sophie Littlefield
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Set against the backdrop of North Dakota’s oil boom, two very different mothers form an uneasy alliance to find their missing sons in this heartrending and suspenseful novel from the Edgar Award–nominated author of Garden of Stones.
The booming North Dakota oil business is spawning “man camps,” shantytowns full of men hired to work on the rigs, in towns without enough housing to accommodate them. In such twilight spaces, it’s easy for a person to vanish. And when two young men in their first year on the job disappear without a trace, only their mothers believe there’s hope of finding them. Despite reassurances that the police are on the case, the two women think the oil company is covering up the disappearances―and maybe something more.
Colleen, used to her decorous life in a wealthy Massachusetts suburb, is determined to find her son. And hard-bitten Shay, from the wrong side of the California tracks, is the only person in town even willing to deal with her―because she’s on the same mission. Overtaxed by worry, exhaustion, and fear, these two unlikely partners question each other’s methods and motivations, but must work together against the town of strangers if they want any chance of finding their lost boys. But what they uncover could destroy them both…
Sure to please fans of Sandra Brown and Gillian Flynn, The Missing Place is a moving chronicle of survival, determination, and powerful bonds forged in the face of adversity.
The Missing Place, by Sophie Littlefield- Published on: 2015-10-06
- Formats: Audiobook, CD, Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 10
- Dimensions: 5.50" h x .75" w x 5.00" l,
- Running time: 12 Hours
- Binding: Audio CD
Review "With two strong. complicated women at its center, Sophie Littlefield’s The Missing Place seizes you with its emotional fervor from its first pages and never lets you go. With intelligence and keen sensitivity, Littlefield draws us into a story, and a world—the North Dakota oil fields— that feels both utterly original and yet also so deeply our own. A remarkable novel." (Megan Abbott bestselling author of THE FEVER and DARE ME)“A powerful portrait of grief, fear, and courage as two mothers fight for truth.” (C.J. Lyons New York Times bestselling author of FAREWELL TO DREAMS)“Taut and suspenseful, fierce and compelling—The Missing Place traces two mothers’ descents into the hell of searching for their lost children, and doesn’t let up until the last page is, breathtakingly, turned." (Jennie Shortridge, author of LOVE WATER MEMORY)"A remarkable story of the unlikely friendship between two women desperately searching for their missing sons, told as only Sophie Littlefield can, with depth, humor, and honesty. Colleen and Shay are women I know; they are whom I see reflected in the mirror. And as they push forward, confronting the demons of their pasts and the horror of their present, I couldn’t help wanting to hold them back just as I urged them onward. THE MISSING PLACE is a compelling and perceptive examination of just how far a mother will go to save her child." (Carla Buckley, author of THE DEEPEST SECRET and THE THINGS THAT KEEP US HERE)“A novel steeped in secrets and unspoken truths.” (--Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train)"I read this in one sitting, unable to leave the fray with the boys' lives at stake." (Mark P. Sadler Suspense Magazine)
About the Author Sophie Littlefield is the Edgar-nominated author of more than a dozen novels, who grew up in rural Missouri. The mother of two grown children, she now makes her home in northern California. Visit her website at www.sophielittlefield.com.
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COLLEEN MITCHELL’S WORLD had been reduced to the two folded sheets of paper she clutched tightly in her left hand. She’d been holding them since leaving Sudbury at four thirty that morning, even when she went through security at Logan, even during the layover in Minneapolis, where she paced numbly up and down the terminal. The paper was slightly damp now and softened from too much handling. Nobody wrote real letters anymore. Especially not kids. All through middle school, Colleen had forced Paul to write thank-you notes by hand every birthday and Christmas; the monogrammed stationery was still around somewhere, up in the dusty shelves of his closet. Once high school started, they had bigger battles to fight, and she gave up on the notes. When was the last time she’d even seen her son’s blocky, leaning handwriting? There must be papers—class notes, tests—in the boxes he’d brought back from Syracuse, but Colleen hadn’t had the heart to open any of them, and they too were stacked in the closet. Nowadays Paul texted, that was all, and in Colleen’s hand was a printout of all the texts from him. God bless Vicki—she’d figured out how to print them in neat columns so they fit on two double-sided pages and had emailed Colleen the file too, “just in case.” Colleen had read them a hundred times. They went back four months, to last September. All the communications from her son since he left—and they fit on two pages. One more indictment of her parenting, of what she’d done wrong or too much or not enough. SEPTEMBER 27, 2010, 2:05 PM Got it thx That was the oldest one. Colleen couldn’t remember what Paul had been thanking her for. Probably one of her care packages—she sent them all throughout last autumn, boxes packed with homemade brownies and Sky Bars and paperback books she knew he’d never read. But when Paul came home for Thanksgiving (well, the week after Thanksgiving, but she and Andy and Andy’s brother Rob and Rob’s girlfriend had delayed the whole turkey-and-pie production until Paul could be there; Andy had even taped the games and waited to watch them with him), he made it clear that the packages embarrassed him. Next was a series of texts from her: OCTOBER 28, 2010, 9:16 AM Hi sweetie dad has enough frequent flyer miles for u to come home when you’re off OCTOBER 29, 2010, 7:44 AM When are you off again? OCTOBER 30, 2010, 11:50 PM Wish u were here for hween the flannigans have the pumpkin lights in the trees Like he was eleven, for God’s sake, and off at sleepaway camp, instead of twenty, a man. A small sob escaped Colleen’s throat, an expulsion of the panic that she’d mostly got under control. She covered the sound with a cough. In her carry-on was half a bottle of Paxil, which Dr. Garrity had given her over a year ago before they settled on a regimen of red clover extract and the occasional Ambien to treat what was, he assured her, a perfectly normal transition into menopause. She hadn’t liked the Paxil; it made her feel dizzy and sometimes sweaty, but she’d packed the bottle yesterday along with her own sleeping pills and Andy’s too. She hadn’t told him, and she felt a little guilty about that, but he’d be able to get a refill tomorrow. She’d leave a message with the doctor’s answering service when they landed, and then all he’d have to do was pick it up. Colleen refolded the papers and rested her forehead against the airplane window, looking out into the night. The plane had begun its descent. The flight attendant had made her announcement—they’d be on the ground a few minutes before ten, the temperature was one degree, winds at something. One degree was cold. But Boston got cold too, and it didn’t bother Colleen the way it did some people. Far below, rural North Dakota was lit up by the moon, a vast rolling plain of silvery snow interrupted here and there by rocky swaths where the land rose up in ridges. Colleen tried to remember if she’d ever been to either Dakota. She couldn’t even remember the names of the capitals—Pierre? Was that one of them? A flare of orange caught her eye, a rippling brightness surrounded by a yawning black hole in the snow. And there. And there! Half a dozen of them dotting the bleak landscape, blazes so bright they looked unnatural, the Day-Glo of a traffic cone. Colleen’s first thought was forest fire, but there were no trees, and then she thought of the burning piles of trash she saw sometimes in Mattapan or Dorchester. But people didn’t burn trash at night, and besides, there were no houses, no town, just— And then she saw it, the tall burred spire like an old-time radio tower, and she knew, even as they flew past, that she had seen her first rig. The plane was still too far up for her to make out any details except that it looked so small, so flimsy, almost like a child’s toy—a Playmobil oil rig play set with little plastic roughnecks. The plane tipped down, the engine shifted, and so did the men, the tired-looking, ill-shaven lot of them who’d boarded with her in Minneapolis. They turned off their iPads and crumpled their paper coffee cups and cleared the sleep from their throats. Colleen closed her eyes, the image of the rig imprinted in her mind, and as they approached Lawton, she thought, Give him back, you have to give him back to me.
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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful. Had such great potential and then... (minor spoilers) By J Doe This book has such potential, and I am sad that it didn’t live up to it. The beginning of the book is great. Colleen Mitchell flies to remote Lawton, ND, to search for her missing son, Paul, who has been working for one of the oil companies in the area, Hunter-Cole Energy. She immediately hooks up with Shay Capparelli, the mother of Taylor, Paul’s best friend, who is also missing. The two women start investigating the disappearance, taking on the local police, the oil workers and higher-ups, and even the folks on the nearby Indian reservation.This part of the book is great. The writing is evocative. You really get a sense of the place, the people, and can appreciate the two women’s franticness to find their sons. The relationship between the women is complicated but interesting to watch develop. I loved this part of the book and the story.Then, at about 70% of the way into the book, the fate of the two young men is discovered. And the book takes a hard left turn into WTF territory. Not WTF as in an implausible plot, actions, resolution, etc, but WTF as in “what the heck happened to the gritty mystery I was reading and why am I suddenly in a dull family drama?” All of the interesting elements of the problems surrounding Hunter-Cole, local tensions with the Native Americans, etc., are simply jettisoned, and the final 30% of the book meanders around (mostly) Colleen’s life in Boston in the aftermath, and the two women coming to terms with what happened. If felt like a huge bait-and-switch.The first 70% of the book gets a hearty five stars. However, because of the side tracked, meandering ending, the final overall rating is 3-stars.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. I could almost feel the cold By Tethys The Missing Place was a great read. We've all heard in the news about the boom towns in North Dakota due to oil and gas exploration, but most of us have no idea what that world really looks like. Colleen's son has gone missing in this frozen land and she sets off ill-prepared but on a mission to find him. When she arrives, in the cold and dead of night, she finds out exactly how challenging it can be to find a place to stay, as there is no vacancy in town. She also finds out that her son didn't go missing alone, but with his friend whose mom, Shay, is also desperate to find her child.These two women, with different skill sets and perspectives, give us access to the boom town culture, corporate greed, desperate people, and show us that although everything in these boom towns is bigger, the motivations people have are all the same.Everything in the novel is richly detailed; I could almost feel the cold, despite it being summer. It's an excellent read.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Opposites Do Not Attract By Antigone Walsh Two disparate women join forces to find their missing sons in the rough and tumble world of North Dakota oil drilling. Colleen is an uptight, affluent East Coaster. She and her husband smothered and protected their troubled son while Shay is the hard scrabble product of trailer parks. Her son is the stereotypical most likely to succeed handsome jock. But where one woman will find joy the other will let tragedy propel her on a drive for revenge.It would be hard to fathom two more irritating characters than Colleen and Shay. Shay is coarse and mean while Colleen is an inflexible bore. There is no genuine friendship born of their mutual desperation. Shay's class envy is tiresome and Colleen's smug superiority and pettiness are aggravating. The sons are uninteresting and the ending is weak. The harsh locale was beautifully described and held far more charm than the lead characters. Missing from this books was heart and soul. The women are nasty and unlikeable and although I am not a fan of corporate America, even the energy company came off more sympathetically than either of the mothers. Pass.
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