Girl, Forgotten: The gripping new latest 2022 crime suspense thriller from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author

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From the bestselling author of False Witness and The Silent Wife comes a gripping closed community mystery in which US Marshall Andrea Oliver is tasked with uncovering a secret that’s remained buried for four decades. I think the jury is still out on that, and I would like to see more of a role for Laura, Gordon and Mike going forward, along with some newly introduced characters like “Catfish” Bible.

Judge Esther Vaughn was in her eighties, and Andrea knew the home she and her wheelchair bound husband lived in, was the one where their daughter Emily Vaughn had lived, with them, forty years prior. It absolutely makes sense to think right from the beginning that one of them is responsible for the things that happened to Emily. IMHO, better than the first, Pieces of Her and for the murder mystery, you don't need to read the first.Dual time lines allow us to not only follow the current day events but also go back to 1982 and be introduced to Emily and her clique, none of whom turn out to be very nice people at a time when Emily needed a friend. Forty years later, her murder is still unsolved but a very cold case might just begin to heat up when. You'll go in thinking you have everything figured out, only to realize you haven't even scratched the surface. I have not read "Pieces of Her", nor have I seen the Netflix adaptation of it, so I came to this book with no prior knowledge of the character of Andrea Oliver.

Narrated by Andrea in the present and Emily in the 1980s, I liked them both, though it took some time for me to connect with Andrea. She took a deep breath and started to recite the mantra, this time from a place of love rather than duty. Under the guise of an official assignment, Oliver is to head to Longbill Beach, Delaware and investigate the forty-year-old murder of teenager Emily Vaughn in 1982. It’s been a while since I read a book set in America, so it was a refreshing change from my British crime novels. The way Slaughter tells the story of Andrea's father is very clever and because of this, I'll have to bump my rating up.She responds with “Uh” in response to being greeted by three different characters because she’s surprised to see them and therefore is too slow to articulate a response. There’s also a weird bit where two of the characters from the past are keeping and starving women in a sort of cult but it doesn’t go into it much.