INVISIBLE GIRL is another winner by Lisa Jewell. This one, though, is a little less so than the others.

Owen is in his 30s, lives with his aunt, and appears to most people to be a "creepy” guy. As a result, he ends up in jail for a crime he didn’t commit.

Saffyre is a teenager who has gone missing. It seems that the last anyone saw her was Valentine’s Day night. Owen becomes a suspect in this case.

Roan is a child psychologist. I won’t say much more about him so you can anticipate the rest. Except that he was Saffyre's psychologist for years.

Joshua is Roan’s son. He and Saffyre eventually  become friends. While his part in the story at first seems minor, he ends up being my favorite character.

These characters and a couple others who play supporting roles each are given separate chapters in which we see things their way. But here’s the problem: the timeline is confusing.

Jewel makes it clear that first there was an incident, then PART ONE is before the incident and PART TWO is after the incident. But Saffyre's chapters confuse the before and after.

You need to realize that, although everyone, including Saffyre, is in the before in PART ONE, Saffyre's chapters are before everyone else's before. Jewell does not make this clear. She just sticks Saffyre's chapters in with everyone else's. Then in PART TWO, when everyone else is in the after, Saffyre is still in the before. Finally, in PART THREE, all really are in the timeline Jewell says they're in.

If only Jewell would fix this issue, maybe with a little rewrite or reorganization or even by just relabeling the parts, INVISIBLE GIRL could be a five-star book.