Police Detective Alisha "Ali" Green was brutally attacked two months ago. The killer left her almost dead and her partner dead. Since then has she had a memory problem, even simple things are hard to remember. She can't even be sure that her memory is always right. And, the killer is still out there.

DEAD GIRLS starts off with a fabulous flashback to the event two months before. It's the kind of start that made me go, wow, I need to read more. Alas, for this book just didn't fulfill my hope of a truly captivating thriller. For one thing, the story is a bit messy, it's hard to keep up with what is going on and all the characters. I had to reread parts and go back in the story to keep track of the characters. And, it just makes the story hard to read. I really wanted to like the book. However, along the way, I felt I lost track of what was going on, over and over again. DEAD GIRLS is the second book in the Normal series, and I don't know if it would have been better to have read NORMAL first. This book, however, does feel like a stand-alone.

I would say that if you loved NORMAL then the chances of loving this book is probably good. Personally, this book just didn't do the trick for me. I kept on waiting for the story to make sense, but I never got that feeling. I did want to know how it all would end. In a way, this book reflects Ali's state of mind, which is messy.