Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Another slam dunk by Lisa Gardner! Before She Disappeared is intoxicatingly original, intelligent, and completely gripping. Full of dark secrets and surprising twists, and with a story narrated by Frankie, a complex, realistic, flawed, and deeply layered character. She’s a recovering alcoholic, a loner, a survivor, and with no people of her own, she has a burning mission to find the forgotten ones who have gone missing.
In this, the first in the Frankie Elkin series, Frankie takes on the case of a Haitian teenage girl who left school one day and vanished, and while doing so, she discovers another girl is also missing.
Multi-layered, gritty, intense, Before She Disappeared is a cross between a police procedural and a domestic suspense with a protagonist you will root for throughout. Absolutely unputdownable.
