Ten years ago, Nicolette Farrell's best friend, Corinne Prescott, vanished without a trace after a night spent at the local carnival. At that time, the investigation focused heavily on Nicolette, her brother Daniel Farrell, Nicolette's boyfriend Tyler, and Corinne's boyfriend Jackson. No one knew what had happened to Corinne that night but there were plenty of secrets that each one of the friends knew; secrets that are kept by each friend and not shared with anyone.
Now, Nicolette is living several hours away in the city. She has a satisfying career and a wealthy, handsome fiancรฉ. Then she receives a phone call from her brother. It seems that their father is running out of the money that they need to keep him in a nice retirement home and Daniel needs Nic to come home to help get the family home ready to sell. Since she is off work for two months, she agrees to sublet her apartment and return to Cooley Ridge.
What she does not expect is the old sparks that still seem to be there between Tyler and her. She also does not expect another young girl to go missing. The circumstances were much the same as those that surrounded Corinne's disappearance so many years ago, and before she knew it, Nic is deeply involved in this investigation. In addition, her father keeps saying things in his more lucid moments that strike fear in her heart because it sounds as if he may somehow have been involved in Corinne's disappearance.
The suspense builds as Nic begins to discover the answers to the long held secrets of her ex-friends from ten years ago. The closer she gets to the truth the more dangerous it becomes for her. In addition, the answers she finds are mind shattering.
ALL THE MISSING GIRLS is a very unique mystery novel told from the past to the present as it is unraveled and the truth is exposed. Megan Miranda is a writer who knows how to spin a creepy and twisted tale, which she has done with this current work. There are plenty of suspects to choose from and each one had a different reason for committing the crime. However, do not expect to solve either mystery easily or at all. Ms. Miranda has created a tale containing lies, half-truths and all out terror. I guarantee that you will not be able to put it down until you know all of the truth.
As for what the truth happens to be in solving the mysteries of ALL THE MISSING GIRLS, you will be astonished at the outcome. While secrets abound in such a little town of Cooley Ridge, the answers are not as simple to find as one might think. The paths are winding, twisting and turning to the point that you would love to be inside this story following the few clues that are present to help solve the old mystery as well as the more recent one.
Try not to read ALL THE MISSING GIRLS late at night. If you do, though, be sure to have plenty of lights on as well as all of the doors and windows locked. It is the only way to read this book while feeling somewhat safe although you should expect several jumpy moments as you move through the pages.
Itโs been ten years since Nicolette Farrell
left her rural hometown after her best friend, Corinne,
disappeared from Cooley Ridge without a trace. Back again to
tie up loose ends and care for her ailing father, Nic is
soon plunged into a shocking drama that reawakens Corinneโs
case and breaks open old wounds long since
stitched.
The decade-old investigation focused on Nic,
her brother Daniel, boyfriend Tyler, and Corinneโs boyfriend
Jackson. Since then, only Nic has left Cooley Ridge. Daniel
and his wife, Laura, are expecting a baby; Jackson works at
the town bar; and Tyler is dating Annaleise Carter, Nicโs
younger neighbor and the groupโs alibi the night Corinne
disappeared. Then, within days of Nicโs return, Annaleise
goes missing.
Told backwardsโDay 15 to Day 1โfrom the
time Annaleise goes missing, Nic works to unravel the truth
about her younger neighborโs disappearance, revealing
shocking truths about her friends, her family, and what
really happened to Corinne that night ten years
ago.
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