Detective Casey White is on enforced leave when she stumbles across a distraught girl at the edge of the woods. The injured girl keeps asking about her baby. Casey joins forces with the local police to search for the baby and uncover the girl's identity.
Where Lost Girls Go is my first book by author B. R. Spangler and is the first in the Detective Casey White series. The prologue has a dream-like quality and didn't really draw me in, it's the first two chapters that grab you. In chapter 1 we learn of a girl waking to discover she's been buried alive. In desperation she claws her way out of the grave, her only thought being to protect her unborn baby.
Chapter 2 is a complete change of story, going back fourteen years when Casey White's life is turned upside down. Casey is at home with her five-year-old daughter, Hannah, when she realises her daughter has managed to open the door and get outside. Rushing out Casey watches as Hannah is abducted.
In chapter 3 we are back to the present day. Casey has been forced to take time off from her job as a detective and decides to use the time to continue her search for her missing daughter, a daughter she has never given up on despite fourteen years having passed. On her way to the Outer Banks, she is startled when she spots a girl in the woods, a girl in an extremely distressed state.
The condition of the girl is a cause for concern, requiring a police investigation. When the body of another girl is found on an abandoned yacht Casey works with Jericho Flynn, the ex-sheriff, on the two cases. When they realise that the two cases could be linked this leads to the possibility that someone has been abducting girls, and there may be more out there.
It was extremely easy to understand Casey's motivation, she's been driven for fourteen years out of guilt. In all that time she's never given up hope of finding Hannah, the abduction haunts her every waking moment. Not only does she feel driven to solve the case of the abducted girls found in the Outer Banks but she also holds on to the belief that it may help her find Hannah.
Unraveling clues, the pair of Casey and Jericho uncover a series of shocking crimes that have been committed, gradually getting closer and closer to the truth behind everything. A tense confrontation leads to a devastating conclusion and disquieting revelations.
Where The Lost Girls Go by B. R. Spangler is available in paperback, ebook and audio format. My thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for a review copy.
B.R. Spangler is a USA TODAY Bestselling Author and resident of Virginia with a wonderful family and a few cats who insist on cowriter credits. During the day, the hours are filled with engineering work. Off hours, time is spent writing, editing, and thinking up new stories. Books are split across pen names, writing crime thrillers, science fiction, horrors, paranormal and contemporary fiction.
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