This week Kaye considers the suspense
novel Where You Can Find Me by Sheri
Joseph. As always, make sure you check out other “Monday With Kaye” posts for
still more reading suggestions…..
Where You Can Find Me by Sheri Joseph
In this novel of suspense, the reader
enters into the Vincent family at an unfortunate moment. Their ordeal seems
over, but it has just begun. The fourteen-year-old son, Caleb, was kidnapped
three years ago and, now recovered from his imprisonment, rejoins the family.
There is, of course, no way for them to
return to the way they were before. The
parents, Marlene and Jeff, and the sister, Lark, who eleven, just the age Caleb
was when he was kidnapped, spend a considerable amount of time trying, though.
The story deals with difficult subject
matter, child sex abuse, which the four family members each dance around in their
own ways. The true situation, which the FBI is trying to ferret out, starts to reveal
itself, gradually. Cracks in the pre-kidnapping, happy-family façade appear and
widen, in spite of attempts to plaster over them. Lark has been sent to a
private school to shield her from the media attention, which has intensified
with Caleb’s return. Most of the time they are prisoners in their own home,
besieged by media attention and publicity.
Jeff’s mother, Grandma Vincent, went to
live in the cloud forest in Costa Rica well before the abduction. Marlene
decides it would be good to get away from the publicity and that Costa Rica
might be a place where her children could lead more normal lives. However, some
of their problems follow them there, other newer ones reveal themselves.
I like how the reader is privy to the inner
working of the individuals. The struggle of each one is well-drawn and the
reader pulls, throughout, for them to work through the problems that look
insurmountable. This is an intense read, well worth it.
Reviewed by Kaye George author of Broke for Suspense Magazine
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