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

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DISCLOSURE: Thank you to HarperCollins Publishers UK, Harper Fiction via Netgalley for providing a digital ARC of Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter for review. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). Writing this and thinking more about the story as well as looking at other reviews makes me wonder if I was just having a bad day when I read this.

It was a real bonus to see Andrea start to flourish which I hope continues as this series progresses. Yet, Andrea has another assignment and it is to find out the killer of the judge's daughter, Emily Vaughn. She was desperate for another moment, another breath, so that her last words to her little girl would not be a lie.No, old Laura would give her a half hour head start and then Kool-Aid man back into Andrea’s life whether or not she needs (or wants) her mother there. Sinister activities of violation and abuse have been covered up by those whose own shame is buried deep. With her themes, tensions and metaphors, she has a talent for classic literature that is often missing in recent fiction.

I will say that it was rather dense in terms of subject matter, and it does contain a range of triggering elements to be aware of.As the novel progresses in the multiple layers from both 1982 and the present day start to connect, the tempo increases, there’s plenty of action as well as tension and several good twists and turns. Slaughter has written a wickedly sharp and arresting tour de force that blends a riveting plot and emotional subterfuge with the kind of propulsive prose that makes False Witness absolutely unputdownable. For me, Girl, Forgotten is a much better book than Pieces of Her, from the perspective of Andrea Oliver. I have always preferred books written in 3rd person, and because most of the books that I have read this year to date were written in first person, I found refreshing.

US Marshal Andrea Oliver arrives in Longbill Beach on her first assignment: to protect a judge receiving death threats. In addition to guarding the judge, they also become suspicious about a local fava bean farm and the female ‘volunteers’ working there.While Emily is there, she wants to discover who killed the judge’s pregnant teenage daughter, Emily, while she was in high school. I also admired the characterisation of the two lead investigators in the contemporary setting - Andrea Oliver and her experienced partner, Deputy Leonard "Catfish" Bible. 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.