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An innocent night of fun takes a shocking turn in Not That I Could Tell , the next page-turner from Jessica Strawser. When a group of neighborhood women gathers, wine in hand, around a fire pit where their backyards meet one Saturday night, most of them are just ecstatic to have discovered that their baby monitors reach that far. It's a rare kid-free night, and they're giddy with it. They drink too much, and the conversation turns personal. By Monday morning, one of them is gone. Everyone knows something about everyone else in the quirky small Ohio town of Yellow Springs, but no one can make sense of the disappearance. Kristin was a sociable twin mom, college administrator, and doctor's wife who didn't seem all that bothered by her impending divorce--and the investigation turns up more questions than answers, with her husband, Paul, at the center. For her closest neighbor, Clara, the incident triggers memories she thought she'd put behind her--and when she's unable to extract herself from the widening circle of scrutiny, her own suspicions quickly grow. But the neighborhood's newest addition, Izzy, is determined not to jump to any conclusions--especially since she's dealing with a crisis of her own. As the police investigation goes from a media circus to a cold case, the neighbors are forced to reexamine what's going on behind their own closed doors--and to ask how well anyone really knows anyone else.
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I was not lucky enough to come across Jessica Strawser sooner and that is so disappointing because I loved this book. Not that I could tell won me over with amazing cover art visually and won me over with every page I turned. We all have a group of girls who we trust who we love to hang with but what happens when you spend a Saturday around a fire pit with friends and wake up the next day and one of them is missing and no one remembers what happen. Everyone doesn't know what to think. Were Kristen and her twins kidnapped? Did she run away from the perfect husband? Is he perfect did he do it? The story is told from duel perspectives One chapter is told by Clara a married mother and one being Izzy the only single woman in the group. I felt emotionally connected to all the girls and loved that. I found myself feeling bad for Izzy because I felt that she wanted to be happy so bad that she forgot to live. I felt that the author wrapped things up nice building up to an awesome ending. I want to thank Netgalley and all parties for my advanced reader copy this came out yesterday go get it!