Down the beach, she can just make out the rusting hulk of the Ferris wheel through the dawn mist. The hairs prickle on her neck as she drags her focus back to the chestnut hair fanned out in the shallow water at her feet, to the grains of sand decorating the beautiful girl’s white cheeks like freckles.
Detective Charlie Winters never thought she’d find herself back on Salem Island, but she’s forced home re-open the wound that never healed: her sister was abducted from the small town when they were teenagers. But now a family friend needs her help to find her missing daughter, Kara.
Searching Kara’s messy, poster-covered bedroom, Charlie finds more questions than answers. Did Kara run away, or was she snatched? She’s clearly been keeping secrets from her family—but don’t all teenagers?
A little black matchbook hidden in a jewellery box is Charlie’s only lead, but the seedy nightclub it comes from proves to be nothing but a dangerous dead end. Until Charlie is approached by a second distraught mother whose daughter has also vanished.
Forced at every turn to relive the trauma she ran away from, Charlie’s blood runs cold when a girl’s body is discovered in the exact spot on the water’s edge where the last trace of her sister was found. It’s clear someone is taunting Charlie, but with other innocent girls’ lives at risk, she has no choice but to take the bait…
An absolutely unputdownable crime thriller that will leave you gasping for breath. Fans of Angela Marsons, Robert Dugoni and Lisa Regan will need to sleep with the lights on!
L.T. Vargus and Tim McBain are the authors of the Violet Darger series and The Scattered and the Dead series among others, which have collectively tallied over a million downloads. Their book, Dead End Girl, peaked at #3 in the US Kindle charts and has remained in the top 10 in multiple sub-categories since it was published in 2017.
First, I want to thank L.T. Vargas, Tim McBain, Bookouture and NetGalley for providing me with this book so I may bring you this review.
If you love missing person cases like I do you need to put L.T. Vargas and Tim McBain First Girl Gone on your TBR list. L.T. And Tim are both so gifted and collaborated so perfectly bringing each of their writing strengths to this story.
The cover of this book is absolutely beautiful. It instantly grabbed my attention.
With having two writers collaborating on this book it made for a more interesting read. I had never read either of these authors prior to this book. Therefore, not knowing their previous writing style I wondered who wrote what parts.
The missing person case storyline drew me into the storyline. I loved how the private detective was mourning her sister being missing but having to handle another missing case. The authors did an awesome job pulling out all the raw emotion Charlie was feeling as she was hearing the sound of her voice in her head. My heart ached for her sister going missing years ago.
First Girl Gone is a very fast paced read with an action packed climatic ending. Both authors made sure to put a little bit of something each reader would like into it.
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I've never read a crime thriller, and I read books every day. This does look good though
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