HQ Good Half Gone: The stunning psychological suspense thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Never Never - new for 2024!

Brilliant book

Good Half Gone by Tarryn Fisher follows the journey of Irish Walsh as she tries to solve the abduction and probable murder of her twin sister. The book opens with the 911 call where a hysterical Iris calls the police to report that her twin sister has been abducted from a movie theater. Because of her age, a teenager, and her background, the police do not take her report very seriously and treat the abduction like just another runaway teen that will return on her own.Iris and her twin, Piper, had not had an easy life. Their mom was a drug addict that frequently left them alone, neglected, and unloved. Eventually they are removed from her home and placed in the care of a grandmother that they lovingly refer to as Gram. The twins lives gradually improve with Gram until the day of the kidnapping. The police not taking immediate action leads to the trail going cold and the case never being solved. Iris cannot move past this trauma and believes that she can only find closure if she can find her sister. This leads her to the dangerous decision to intern at a hospital for the criminally insane that is located on an island near Seattle. This decision could lead to her solving the crime or could lead to the end of her existence as things are not always as they appear to be at Shoal Island.The character Iris is well developed, and you grow to want her to solve this crime and find peace. In the chapters that are about their childhood, you are drawn into the love/hate relationship of this set of identical twins. They are identical in looks, but not in personality. This conflict makes Iris feel survivor guilt when her twin is kidnapped and not her. As a reader, you want her to find the closure that she needs so that she can be happy in her life. This is combined with suspense filled chapters that at the beginning alternate between the present and the past. This leaves the reader wanting to keep going to find out what happens next in both timelines.Fisher took a very familiar format of alternating chapters between past and present time, but added a new twist to it that made the book even more intriguing. The first 2/3 of the book, the chapters alternate between the time right after Piper was kidnapped and present time where adult Iris is trying to deal with the fallout of this childhood drama. Fisher wisely stopped the alternating chapters and told the present time narrative for the remainder of the book, keeping the momentum of the final push to resolution clearly on track. On the negative side, the last chapter was a disappointment. The story is resolved, but not in a way that felt very believable. It felt like Fisher tried to drop some hints that when looking back the reader was supposed to say, yeah, that all makes sense, but it didn’t. It didn’t feel possible.Overall, this was a good book with a weak ending. I can’t say for sure that I would recommend it, but others have found that the fast-plot and the plot twists made it worth the read. I would give it 3 stars.

The story crawls. Very boring. Lacks any dynamism. Unnecessarily stretched. Terrible story telling skills of Fisher. My first and last read of her's. No story. No suspense. A flatline story.

Can never go wrong with this author. She’s an excellent author. This book was excellent. Very suspenseful.

As Mud Vein is one of my favorite novels of all time, I had high expectations for this book. This book definitely hit the mark for me. The amount of twist and turns were perfect. Just how unexpected everything in the novel was reminded me of Mud Vein. The story line keeps you interested & wanting to keep reading.I do recommend buying the paper back as I got two hard backs with random holes in the pages & with multiple pages stuck together.