Bantam
January 2016
On Sale: January 12, 2016
Featuring: Lizzie Snow; Tara Wylie; Henry Gemerle
ISBN: 0553390430 EAN: 9780553390438 Kindle: B00VZZ07UC Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Sure to thrill readers of Jenny Milchman, Linda Castillo, and Lisa Gardner, The Girls She Left Behind marks the return of exβBoston homicide detective Lizzie Snow, the new sheriffβs deputy in Maineβs Great North Woods.
For Lizzie Snow, the ice and snow of her first punishing North Woods winter are dreadful enough. But near the small town of Bearkill a stubborn forest fire now rages out of control, and as embers swirl dangerously in the smoke-filled air, a teenage girl with a history of running away has dropped out of sight again. The locals and the law both think Tara Wylie is up to her old tricksβuntil her mother receives a terrifying text message.
Equally disturbing: Henry Gemerleβa kidnapper and rapist who once held three girls prisoner for fifteen yearsβhas escaped, and may be lurking in Bearkill. As the fire closes in, Lizzie teams up with her boss Sheriff Cody Chevrier and state cop Dylan Hudson to search for the missing girl and the wily fugitive. But theyβre blocked by Taraβs mother, a frustrating teller of needless lies and keeper of dark, incomprehensible secrets.
Following a trail of grisly cluesβa bloodstained motel room, a makeshift coffin in a shallow graveβLizzie is drawn ever closer to the flames in her race to save an innocent and corner a monster. Someone else also wants to find Tara Wylie and Henry Gemerle, though, for reasons that have nothing to do with mercy or justice. And when they all meet, the inferno threatening Bearkill will pale in comparison to the hell thatβs about to break loose.
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