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This “diabolical debut thriller” for fans of Julia Keller and David Bell “offers more twists than a winding country road” (New York Journal of Books).
A disgraced journalist gets the story of a lifetime when a parents’ worst nightmare comes to life in her North Carolina hometown . . .
Investigative journalist Laura Chambers is back in her tiny hometown of Hillsborough, North Carolina, the one place she swore never to return. Fired from the Boston Globe and with her career in shambles, she reluctantly takes a job with the local paper. The work is simple, unimportant, and worst of all, boring—at least until a missing girl turns up dead, the body impeccably clean, dressed to be the picture of innocence.
Years earlier, 10-year-old Patty Finch left home and never made it back. But for the people of Hillsborough, Patty was just the beginning. Child after child disappeared, a reign of terror the town desperately wants to forget. Now that terror has returned to seize another girl. And another. And another.
This is the story Laura’s been waiting for—her one last chance to get back onto the front page. She dives deeper into a case that runs colder by the second, only to discover the truth may be far closer to home than she could have ever imagined. Powerful, intricate, and tense, Last Girl Gone will have you looking over your shoulder long after the last page.
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- ISBN: 9781683316183
- File size: 2917 KB
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- ISBN: 9781683316183
- File size: 2041 KB
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April 30, 2018
The journalism career of Laura Chambers, the star of Hetherton’s promising debut and series launch, was off to a good start when she landed at the Boston Globe. But then an exclusive story blew up, and she was spectacularly fired. Now she’s back home in Hillsborough, N.C., where she writes “small-town” stories for the Hillsborough Gazette, wonders if her career will ever rebound, and lives with her toxic mother in the farmhouse where she was raised. Laura’s coverage of a 10-year-old girl’s murder is the kind of story she can turn into national news, especially when a second girl, who may be a victim of the same killer, goes missing. Although that story gets hijacked by fellow reporter Colin Smythe, Laura proves her mettle to FBI special agent Tim Timinski, who refers her to unsolved cases from 30 years earlier also involving missing girls. Laura’s work with now-retired sheriff Donald Rodgers gives the plot heft and illustrates how sharp investigators span generations. Despite the occasional cliché, Hetherton delivers a realistic look at contemporary newsroom culture that bodes well for future installments. Agent: Alice Martell, Martell Agency. -
June 1, 2018
Fired from her job as an investigative reporter at a Boston newspaper, Laura Chambers reluctantly takes a position at the local paper in her hometown of Hillsborough, NC. The story of a missing ten-year-old local girl found dead could be her ticket out, but Laura's competing with the mayor's son for newspaper space, sleeping with a source in the sheriff's department, and living with her verbally abusive mother. Then an FBI agent pushes her to look into a 30-year-old cold case involving other missing ten-year-old girls. Agent Timiniski refers to Laura as tenacious but naïve. Those traits drive her to find a killer, making her a target for ridicule--and attracting the attention of a murderer. Her investigative efforts intensify in a shocking finale. VERDICT The socially awkward but tenacious Laura, determined to succeed and overcome her past failures, is a memorable protagonist in this compelling debut mystery. Fans of James Ziskin's Ellie Stone will welcome this ambitious investigative reporter.--Lesa Holstine, Evansville Vanderburgh P.L., IN
Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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June 1, 2018
Fired from her job as an investigative reporter at a Boston newspaper, Laura Chambers reluctantly takes a position at the local paper in her hometown of Hillsborough, NC. The story of a missing ten-year-old local girl found dead could be her ticket out, but Laura's competing with the mayor's son for newspaper space, sleeping with a source in the sheriff's department, and living with her verbally abusive mother. Then an FBI agent pushes her to look into a 30-year-old cold case involving other missing ten-year-old girls. Agent Timiniski refers to Laura as tenacious but na�ve. Those traits drive her to find a killer, making her a target for ridicule--and attracting the attention of a murderer. Her investigative efforts intensify in a shocking finale. VERDICT The socially awkward but tenacious Laura, determined to succeed and overcome her past failures, is a memorable protagonist in this compelling debut mystery. Fans of James Ziskin's Ellie Stone will welcome this ambitious investigative reporter.--Lesa Holstine, Evansville Vanderburgh P.L., IN
Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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