Silent tears trickle down her cheeks as she curls inside the tiny cave-like space. She lies on her side, darkness all around her, rubbing her fingers over the little wooden doll he’d carved. He told her to be quiet, not to cry or scream. Not to be a baby. Her throat was raw, her eyes swollen shut. She wanted her mommy and daddy. She wanted to go home.
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When Penny Matthews, a seven-year-old girl with blonde curls and a gap-toothed smile, goes missing in the Appalachian mountains, Detective Ellie Reeves is called straight to the scene. According to Penny’s parents, their daughter vanished after a picnic by the creek. All that’s left behind is a pink friendship bracelet etched with “Penny”.
Ellie knows all too well that the mountains’ endless miles of dark forest and winding rivers are the perfect place for a criminal to hide. Racing against the rapidly setting sun and a brutal winter storm on the horizon, she searches desperately for Penny.
Special Agent Derrick Fox is determined to join the hunt. His younger sister, Kim, disappeared in the same area twenty-five years ago––on the day he was meant to be watching her. He’s certain the cases are linked and that over a dozen girls have vanished in the last decade. Ellie refuses to believe that their tight-knit mountain community could be home to a deadly criminal, but even she can’t deny the similarities in the cases. And when they discover the remains of a small body buried with a carved wooden doll, it’s clear they’re up against a deadly serial killer preying on innocent little girls.
As the temperature plunges, Penny’s life hangs in the balance. Most people who get lost in the woods never make it out alive. Can Ellie and Derrick defy the odds and find out the truth about all the stolen girls? Or will the mountain, and its twisted killer, claim another victim?
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USA Today Bestselling and award-winning author Rita Herron fell in love with books at the ripe age of eight when she read her first Trixie Belden mystery. But she didn't think real people grew up to be writers, so she became a teacher instead. Now she writes so she doesn't have to get a real job.
With over ninety books to her credit, she's penned romantic suspense, romantic comedy, and YA novels, but she especially likes writing dark romantic suspense and crime fiction set in small southern towns.
The Silent Dolls
By Rita Herron
Review by
Heidi Lynn’s Book Reviews
First, I want to thank Rita Herron, Bookouture and NetGalley for providing me with this book so I can bring you this review.
Rita Herron’s incredibly intense, suspenseful, dark, twisted, thrilling, terribly heartbreaking, jaw dropping shocking new series Detective Ellie Reeves is a must read!! I totally fell in love with her first book in the series Silent Dolls. Rita definitely has an incredible gift for writing in this genre! She definitely acquired me as a new fan!
If you love really good detective stories, abductions, stories that pull hard on your heart strings, books that are extremely fast paced, has a lot of family tension, etc. Then this is a book for you.
Rita straight away got into the heart of the story. Instantly, I was fascinated by this storyline. The investigations, the press, the family dynamics and secrets, the wicked twists and turns, and oh the shocking moments that I never saw coming.
I am extremely excited to see where Rita takes this storyline. There are so many angles she could go with this. The sky's the limit for Detective Ellie Reeves.
1 comments:
I really like the sound of this. I'm a book worm
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