My Opinion:
Again, another fantastic book! This is a standalone so great for new readers or established fans.
I was instantly hooked and unable to out this down. Frankie is a great protagonist, and I really found myself mesmerised by her. It is a slightly longer read than some of my more recent reads, but there is so.much going on you don’t realise. The story is naturally that long.
International Thriller Writers Award winner
Multiple New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller
Published by Century | Hardback |
26th January 2021 | £12.99
Frankie Elkin has dedicated her life to doing what no one else will: searching for missing people the world has forgotten.
When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking. She has found fourteen victims to date, but none yet alive. Traveling from city to city with more regrets than belongings, Frankie is drawn to a new case in Boston, and to a neighbourhood with a rough reputation.
Angelique Badeau, a local teenager and Haitian immigrant, vanished eleven months ago in the middle of the day from her high school. No scrap of surveillance footage, no cell phone tracking;
Angelique simply disappeared.
Despite resistance from the Boston PD and the victim’s wary family, Frankie starts to unpick the truth of Angelique’s disappearance and starts to discover there are those that don’t want these questions answered. But Frankie will stop at nothing to find Angelique and bring her home, even if it means the next person to go missing will be herself …
Praise for Lisa Gardner
‘Her plots and characters just don’t let you go, LISA GARDNER is at the top of her game!’
KATHY REICHS
‘No one owns this corner of the crime genre the way LISA GARDNER does’ LEE CHILD
‘LISA GARDNER’S fast-paced novels twist when you expect a turn, and turn when you expect a twist. I couldn’t recommend her more.’ KARIN SLAUGHTER
‘Another rocket-fuel-propelled thriller from Lisa Gardner. This culmination of her great talents . . . starts out chillingly intimate and explodes into a sky-high denouement that will leave you breathless.’ GREGG HURWITZ
‘A tsunami of a thriller. This may well be Gardner’s best work’ DAVID BALDACCI
‘Lisa Gardner has outdone herself with this powerful novel about three women, two murders, and uncountable secrets! From its stunning opening to its last thrilling page, Lisa Gardner will captivate, surprise, and satisfy you.’ LISA SCOTTOLINE
‘Shocks the system like ten thousand volts. Brace yourself, gulp down a deep breath,
and dive in.’ A.J. FINN
‘Starts with a bang and never lets up! An utterly absorbing story about troubled families and twisted fates.’ SHARI LAPENA
‘A complex crime scene, a missing girl, a ticking clock: no one writes a more page-turning, gut-wrenching, edgy thriller. A page turner par excellence.’ TESS GERRITSEN
Research for Before She Disappeared
For her first standalone novel in over a decade, Lisa Gardner’s curiosity was piqued by a BBC article she read about the incredible civilians who dedicate their lives to solving missing people cold cases. After exploring more about this amazing group of Internet detectives and amateur P.Is, Lisa was inspired to write about a woman dedicating her life to finding missing people that the police and media too soon forget about. She was also drawn back to her old stomping ground of Boston where she lived for four years in the early ‘90s and spent several weeks exploring the inner-city neighbourhood of Mattapan and its uniquely Haitian culture. As with all her novels, Lisa conducted extensive interviews with law enforcement, including a former Superintendent Chief of the Boston Police Force to discover how someone can simply disappear in modern day Boston.
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At the tender age of twenty-seven, Lisa Gardner became an overnight success with the publication of her first thriller, The Perfect Husband. Launching to the top of the New York Times bestseller list, Lisa has since become an international bestseller of over twenty thriller novels, including the #1 NYT bestselling series, the FBI Profiler series, the Detective D.D Warren series and the Tessa Leoni series. She has had four books adapted into TV movies: At the Midnight Hour, The Perfect Husband, The Survivors Club and Hide, and has also made personal appearances on TruTV and CNN.
Her novel, The Neighbour, won Best Hardcover Novel from the International Thriller Writers and the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle in France. She was also recognized with the Daphne du Maurier Award in 2000 for The Other Daughter. Lisa received the Silver Bullet Award from the International Thriller Writers in 2017 for her work on behalf of at-risk children and the Humane Society. For further information about Lisa Gardner, visit: https://www.lisagardner.com/
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