All The Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham

 

Synopsis :

One year ago, Isabelle Drake's life changed forever: her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his crib in the middle of the night while she and her husband were asleep in the next room. 

Isabelle  hasn’t slept well in a year since Mason's disapparance. This has led to the demise of her marraige.

Isabelle agrees to be interviewed by a true-crime podcaster—but his interest in Isabelle's past makes her nervous. His unnerving questions has brought about very tragicand uncomfortable memories from her own childhood,

History:

When she was a child , her sister drowned while she stood by. Isabelle sleep walks and when she woke up she witnesses the death of her sister. Before she could realize what happened, she sees her father intervening. Everything becomes a whirlwind of bad memeories, with the cops closing the case. She thinks she may have sleepwalked(again) and did something horrible to her son. The cops mention there was no sign of any break-in.

Her husband eventually visits her and tells her he is seeing another woman who was their counselor.

What Really happened:

1. She was her husband's mistress while he was still married.

2. His wife got depressed and committed suicide.

3. The blogger is the wife's younger brother who suspected something foul going on because his sister was pregnant and highly unlikely to kill herself.

4. Her husband hated having kids and had his new mistress (the counselor) kidnap the child and give him to another mother who could not have kids or adopt. The mistress looks like Isabelle and the neighbor's cctv show her carrying the child away. Since the the neighbor was harboring his criminal son, he could not come forward. Besides, the face was not clear in the video.

5. In the past, Isabelle's mother developed post partum disease and killed her sister. She was about to kill Isabelle until her father rescued her. The Father managed to have the police to close the case so as not to aggravate the situation.

What happens next:

The husband and the mistress are arrested.

My take:

Stacy is not a fan of romance. I actually thought Isabelle  would end up with the brother. However, that situation never came to fruition. Just like in her other novel. The main character ended up breaking up with her fiance who she thought was the killer.