I Found You/ Lisa Jewell / 344 pgs

This is a complicated, twisting suspense novel that kept me interested the whole way through, even though I was disappointed with some aspects at the end. There are three different story lines to follow:

1. Alice, a somewhat scatter-brained mother of two teenagers and a six-year-old, discovers a man sitting for hours on the beach outside her cottage in coastal England. Pouring rain leads her to take pity on him and approach him, and she learns that he has amnesia. He's physically fine, but has no idea who is he or where he came from. Alice has misgivings, especially given her children, but she invites him to stay in her back shed while he tries to figure out who is.

2. Meanwhile in London, the newlywed husband of a young Ukrainian woman, Lily, goes missing.The police don't take Lily too seriously but she knows something is wrong. She becomes even more alarmed when things about her husband don't appear to add up.

3. Twenty-some odd years ago, we follow the story of the Ross teens--Gray, 17, and Kirsty, 15--as they holiday at the beach and run into a strange but alluring young man.

The narrative is full of emotion and keeps you guessing about who the amnesiac man is. At times the story veered toward the unbelievable and the coincidental but I still enjoyed it. Toward the end I was extremely disappointed when the villain's downfall happens off page and is reported via a short newspaper article.