This is the first thriller I have loved in a long time.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Thank you to #NetGalley for the advanced reader copy. After being dumped, up and coming actress Mia heads to Hollywood to try and find her big break. She meets fellow actress, Emily and does her a favor. When Mia next sees Emily, she realizes it’s not the same person. Steadman shines here in her knowledge of acting and the theater world, and crafts an interesting story. The ending was more positive than her previous two books. I enjoyed this one.

This books might be a little slow to start, but the plot twists through the middle and end of the book are well worth it! My heart was beating out of my chest at times. Highly recommend!

This is the third book by Catherine Steadman and I have read them all. I loved The Disappearing Act and also loved Something in the Water. Mr. Nobody was okay. The Disappearing Act is about a British actress who travels to LA for her career and gets involved in some mysterious incidents. I don't like to know a lot about a book before I read it, so I hadn't even read the book jacket. I don't want to give anything away. It was very suspenseful and since I am in the acting business myself, I was interested in the plot about an actress attempting to move forward in her career. Highly recommended.

3.45 stars

I usually don’t read books that are written by famous actresses/actors. I have read a few books that have soured me on even picking books up by them. The books I have read were awful, and I felt that they were published because of the name associated with them and not because the book was good. So, I was surprised when I saw that Catherine Steadman had starred in two of my favorite British dramas: Downton Abbey and The Tudors. And that made me very apprehensive about reading The Disappearing Act. I was surprised when I started reading The Disappearing Act, and I was enjoying it. It hit everything I like in a mystery/thriller/suspense novel. I won’t go as far as to say that Ms. Steadman changed my mind about reading books written by famous actresses/actors, but it has made me more open to trying them. The Disappearing Act occurs mainly in L.A., briefly being set in London at the beginning and end of the book. I felt that the author captured the frantic pace and the darkness under the glittery facade perfectly. The Disappearing Act is a medium-paced book for the first half of the book. The author spends a lot of time building up Mia’s backstory and her first week or so in L.A. It might get tedious, but it is well worth the wait. The second half of the book zips right along. I liked Mia but felt she was very naive for someone in her profession. She was almost too nice at various points in the book. I mean, she kept a stranger’s keys and fed a meter for nearly two days. She was also too trusting. There were parts in the book where I just wanted to shake her and tell her to stay away from so and so. But I couldn’t, and I had to watch her get more and more involved in this mystery. Speaking of mystery, the author did a great job of keeping what was going on under wraps until the end of the book. I was shocked when specific facts came out. And I was even more shocked with how the book ended. It was not what I expected at all. There is a small romance introduced as the book’s plot started to take off. Again, I wasn’t sure where it was going, and I was surprised when it was mentioned at the end of the book. The end of The Disappearing Act was interesting. I say interesting because it wasn’t how I expected the book to end. I thought that it was going to end like your typical mystery/thriller. I wasn’t upset by it, but it did confuse me. I enjoyed reading The Disappearing Act. It took some time to get the plot going, but it was terrific once it did. I would recommend The Disappearing Act to anyone over the age of 21. There is violence and mild language.