‘I loved this book!! It has everything you could want in a mystery/thriller. It grabbed me from the first sentence and didn’t let me go until the last one. I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough… This book is one of my favorites of the year.’ Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars“Help me,” the girl cries, alone in the forest, shivering in her nightgown, her small frame almost lost between the trees. … “Please.”When Detective Casey White discovers the body of a beautiful teenage girl in a white nightgown near the shoreline in North Carolina’s Outer Banks, a familiar fear floods through her. Could this be Hannah, her sweet, blue-eyed daughter snatched from home fourteen years ago? But it only takes one look to confirm that the girl with dark bruising around her throat is another family’s tragedy.Putting her own grief aside, Casey digs into unsolved missing child cases in the area. The victim is Cheryl Parry, one of two little girls taken during a family beach vacation nine years ago. Her sister’s body was found strangled a week later, but someone has been keeping Cheryl alive—until now.Fearful there may be other innocent lives in danger, Casey and her team work around the clock to trace the material from Cheryl’s nightgown, but hit a dead end and don’t know where to turn. Then, another teenager’s body is found in a nearby pine forest, dressed all in white. It’s suddenly clear that a twisted killer has been hiding in the Outer Banks for years, and he will strike again.Casey painstakingly combs the forest soil for clues to the killer’s next move, but nothing prepares her for what she finds: a buried charm bracelet exactly matching one that her little Hannah always wore—right down to the broken star charm by the clasp…An absolutely unputdownable crime thriller with twists and turns that will have you racing through the pages. Fans of Kendra Elliot, Rachel Caine and Robert Dugoni will be completely hooked.Read what everyone’s saying about Where Lost Girls Go:‘OMG WHAT A BOOK!!!… A real page-turner and rollercoaster… Hooked from the first page… I literally devoured this book in one sitting. Cancel everything and curl up with this fantastic five star read… I LOVED IT!!!!’ Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars‘Where Lost Girls Go is an explosive, exciting, twisty, riveting read that will have you gasping for air. Make sure to set some time aside to read this one because once you start, you won’t want to stop until you reach its shocking conclusion. A propulsive thriller with a fantastic female protagonist you’ll connect with immediately!’ Lisa Regan, USA Today bestselling author of the Detective Josie Quinn series‘This is one of the best mysteries I have read this year. It’s an emotional rollercoaster. Full of suspense, the action never lets up… I couldn’t put this book down… I held my breath… I cannot wait to see where the series goes from here.’ Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars‘Casey White might be my new favorite character… Where Lost Girls Go starts off with a bang and keeps the intensity flowing throughout… will leave readers salivating for more! It’s a fantastic read and I can’t wait to read the next instalment in the series! WOWZA!’ NetGalley Reviewer, 5 stars‘An absolute rollercoaster… this one will keep you on the edge of your seat… once you start this book, you better clear your diary… so many twists and turns, your neck will be sore… Highly recommend.’ Goodreads Reviewer‘Unputdownable. You couldn’t pry it out of my hands.’ Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars
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It was a well-crafted story about a policewoman who saw her toddler daughter being abducted, and spent the next decade-plus searching for her. She solved the mystery, but her daughter had successfully fled from her abductors and from others who planned to send her into a life of prostitution. The ending was realistic, but enigmatic.
Well written, engaging with well developed characters and settings
Kept my attention right from the beginning. Loved the characters!
Kept me turning pages!
The characters were one dimensional, a physical description of the two main characters was never given. The “heroine” was written as hysterical/careless/overly emotional, not a cop, just a “typical woman”…
Great read, loved the characters and the story line. Felt like I was on the Outer Banks with them. A must read. I have purchased the second book in the series and pre-ordered the the third book. Can’t wait but when a book is so well written you hate to see it end.
TAKEN FROM HOME is a rousing start to a brand new mystery series featuring Detective Casey White. For years, Casey has dedicated her life to missing persons cold cases, spurred on by the unsolved kidnapping of her own daughter. A near fatal mistake she makes, due to overwhelming stress, forces her to take a leave of absence, so she travels to the Outer Banks in North Carolina for some rest and rejuvenation. It’s not all a pleasure trip, though. When Casey travels, she always takes her file detailing her search for her missing daughter and she brings that with her on this trip along with a long buried lead that was so unlikely she hadn’t pursued it until it was the last possible lead.
As Casey drives into the Outer Banks area, she gets lost and comes across a young woman, naked and trying to escape the woods where Casey has gotten lost. Casey rushes her to the hospital, thinking the young woman was pregnant until her examination reveals she had recently given birth. Believing the discovery of the young woman may lead to a seriously deranged individual, Casey drives over to the beach just in time to see a recovery effort bringing the body of a young woman on shore from a burned out yacht. Casey gets pressed into service by the mayor as they are awaiting the arrival of a new detective and in dire need of someone to process the scene before the clues disappear with the tide.. Casey agrees to work the scene for the first day in order to gather information before it disappears and then plans to move forward with her own plans. As she is working the scene, the officers come across another young woman who has been shut in a closet and left for dead, complicating an already baffling case.
As more facts emerge, Casey becomes more and more entangled in both cases while the district attorney tries to link the two cases together; something Casey and her counterpart, former Sheriff and now member of the Marine Patrol, Jerico question. Both Casey and Jerico are driven, law enforcement officers, each with their own complicated back story. As they work the two cases, they draw closer together in a relationship that hopefully, will continue to grow and develop as the series continues.
The entire book is a series of roller coaster rides that will have the reader rushing through parts to learn what happens next, only to slow down for a breath and then go again. The pacing for the book is excellent, pulling the reader through at a good speed, but not so fast as to leave you breathless. The ending twist was not a surprise for me, but may be for others. Regardless, it was very satisfying with the one exception of one poor decision Casey made which felt a little contrived to set up the situation. It was not enough of a misstep to do any measurable harm to the book itself. I look forward to the next book in this series and think most readers who like police procedurals and series books will do well to start with this first book. My thanks to Bookouture and NetGalley for providing me with an advanced digital reader copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
#NetGalley #Where Lost Girls Go: A totally addictive mystery and suspense novel (Detective Casey White Book #1) #Bookouture
Casey is a detective on a forced vacation from work. While on vacation she will be working a missing person case that she has been working for years. The case is that of her daughter, Hannah. Hannah was kidnapped from her front yard as a toddler fourteen years earlier.
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New information on Hannah’s case has brought her to the Outer Banks, a wrong turn leads her to find a badly injured young woman. The woman runs out of the woods and into the road, she is wearing only a old fashioned style white night gown, she is also covered in blood. Casey takes the young woman to the local hospital, there she meets Jericho. Jericho is the former Sheriff, he currently works as a marine patrol officer. The local police are short staffed, Jericho and his team get approval for Casey to help them on a case they just received. Two young women are discovered dead on a yacht. As the bodies of more young women are found it is starting to look like they have a serial killer on the loose. This is a very well written story with many twists and turns. I look forward to reading the next installment in the series.
I love me a new series, and Casey White is a force to be reckoned with. She is somewhat of a conundrum. Driven by a past tragedy, she is laser-focused but single-minded (to the point of potentially grave on-the-job errors). She is also incredibly tenacious. I can’t remember the last time I read about a heroine who had so many “incidents.” The subject matter may be difficult to read about, but something that people should be paying more attention to because it’s occurring on a global scale. I am definitely looking forward to future investigations with this detective! For a full review, please visit Fireflies and Free Kicks. Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for a digital ARC of this book.