FBI Agent Nell Flynn has returned home for the first time in many years. The reason is a very somber one: her father Homicide Detective Martin Flynn has died in a motorcycle accident. Now she's there to spread his ashes and see what to do with what her father left behind. What she didn't expect was to be roped into a murder investigation that seems to point to her father being the culprit. Now, she must either clear her father's name or accept that he was a cold-blooded serial killer who may even have killed her mother.

As a big fan of crime novels featuring FBI agents, GIRLS LIKE US was a little bit of a letdown. I think my main problem was the fact that I found no connection with Nell Flynn; she was just not a character who interested me that much. Lots of characters I read about in books have a broken childhood and tragic events in their pasts, so I want something that makes the main character appeal to me. Nell Flynn, alas, felt like a very bland character, which meant that I just couldn't find much interest in her hunt for the truth. It didn't help that the book offered a very predictable story. Nevertheless, if you, like me, enjoy novels focusing on an FBI agent hellbent on finding out the truth, and you aren't disheartened by my reservations about the book, then go for it. I read a lot of crime novels and just can't like them all. This is the first book I've read by Cristina Alger and I wouldn't mind reading something else to see if the story would fit me better because GIRLS LIKE US was well-written.