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Your Next Obsession ... A gripping thriller featuring an ordinary woman who will stop at nothing to find the missing people that the rest of the world has forgotten.
* SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL
* MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR
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'I just read Before She Disappeared in a day and a half. It was that gripping.' SHARI LAPENA
'Sharply-written, tension-filled yarn full of twists readers are unlikely to see coming.' DAILY MAIL
'This time [Lisa] truly hits it out of the park. ' TESS GERRITSEN
'A crackling mystery, gritty atmosphere and an unforgettable heroine.' RILEY SAGER
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Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman with more regrets than belongings who spends her life doing what no one else will: searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking.
A new case brings Frankie to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough reputation. She is searching for Angelique Badeau, a Haitian teenager who vanished from her high school months earlier.
Resistance from the Boston PD and the victim's wary family tells Frankie she's on her own. And she soon learns she's asking questions someone doesn't want answered.
But Frankie will stop at nothing to discover the truth, even if it means the next person to go missing will be her ...
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READERS LOVE BEFORE SHE DISAPPEARED ...
***** 'I'm shaken, slowly crying, barely gathering right words to tell how I wholeheartedly loved this book and how deeply affected me with its resonating, realistic, deeply layered character portraits!'
***** 'I have always loved Lisa Gardner's books and her new Frankie Elkin series is just as intriguing and exciting as all the others I have read.'
***** 'This is yet another wonderful mystery/suspense novel from Lisa Gardner.'
***** 'An outstanding thriller.'
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'Original, chilling and so gripping I had to remind myself to take a breath' Clare Mackintosh
'A first-class crime novel by a master of the thriller genre' David Baldacci
'A rocket-fuel-propelled thriller that will leave you breathless' Gregg Hurwitz
'Tense and immersive' Booklist
'There's only one thing to ask for by the time the book ends: please, please, a sequel and a series!' New York Journal of Books
'A sharply written, tension-filled yarn full of twists readers are unlikely to see coming' Associated Press
Trade Review
In this rare standalone, the prolific Gardner has come up with one of the most original characters in recent crime fiction, a woman readers can care about even while not being entirely sure of what to make of her * Washington Post *
It's hard to tag just one stand-out element here, between the multidimensional portrayal of Mattapan's Haitian expat community, Frankie's humanizing demons and straightforward investigative technique, and a page-turning plot with all its ends tucked in unpredictably tight. Tense and immersive, Gardner's latest...is a sure bet both for readers drawn to gritty gumshoe fiction and for the growing legion of true- crime podcast fans. * Booklist *
Fans of this incredible author, police procedurals, timely immigrant stories, strong determined women, and tales that are not tied up with a pretty bow at the end will not be able to get enough of this intense page-turner. * The Library Journal *
This book, the best-selling author's first stand-alone novel in 20-years, is a sharply-written, tension-filled yarn full of twists readers are unlikely to see coming. The most compelling element, however, is the character of Frankie, a recovering alcoholic whose obsession with the missing is a penance of sorts for the burden of guilt and grief she carries over a past trauma that took the life of a man she loves. * Associated Press *
With a stunning sense of place, a complex mystery, and a well-rounded cast of supporting characters,
Before She Disappeared is the definition of a page-turner. * Amazon Book Review *
