Officer Miranda Rader turned her life around after one very scary night when she was fifteen years old. She intended to leave the small-town way of life in Louisiana, but instead she straightened up her wild teenage ways and became known for her honesty and integrity. Never again would someone doubt her word. Unfortunately, a murder case lands in her lap that has is bringing up all of those long-forgotten memories. Could the murder of a well-loved college professor somehow tie into Miranda's path? Now Miranda's own honesty is in question and she'll have to find out who is behind the murder or risk losing everything she's worked so hard to gain.
I've always had a soft spot for characters who face trauma and survive, never mind ones who must stand alone to do so. Consequently, it's no real surprise that I love Miranda and her spunk in the face of adversity. Her back story is heart-wrenching as Erica Spindler does a great job weaving together the past and the present. In fact, my only complaint is that THE OTHER GIRL isn't the first in a series featuring Miranda as she's exactly the sort of character I want to visit with over and over again.
I can't believe I've never read Erica Spindler before! THE OTHER GIRL is a spectacular thriller that kept me up far too late as I just had to know what would happen next. I was in a huge reading slump and THE OTHER GIRL kicked me right out of that slump as it demanded my attention. Thrills, chills, and even a few tears were shed as Erica Spindler crafts one heck of a good story. I'll definitely read more of her books in the future!
From the New York Times bestselling author of
Justice for Sara and The First Wife Erica
Spindler comes The Other Girl, a chilling new
thriller about a ritualistic murder of a college professor
that sends a small town cop back into the trauma she thought
sheβd put behind her.
A horrific crime. One witnessβa fifteen year old girl
from the wrong side of the tracks, one known for lying and
her own brushes with the law.
Is it any surprise no one believed her?
Officer Miranda Rader of the Harmony, Louisiana PD is known
for her honesty, integrity, and steady hand in a crisisβbut
that wasnβt always so. Miranda comes from the town of
Jasper, a place about the size of a good spit on a hot day,
and her side of the tracks was the wrong one. Sheβs worked
hard to earn the respect of her coworkers and the community.
When Miranda and her partner are called to investigate the
murder of one of the townβs most beloved college professors,
theyβre unprepared for the brutality of the scene. This
murder is unlike any theyβve ever investigated, and just
when Miranda thinks sheβs seen the worst of it, she finds a
piece of evidence that chills her to the core: a faded
newspaper clipping about that terrible night fifteen years
ago. The night sheβd buried, along with her past and the
girl sheβd been back then. Until now that grave had stayed
sealedβ¦except for those times, in the deepest part of the
night, when the nightmares came: of a crime no one believed
happened and the screams of the girl they believed didnβt exist.
Then another man turns up dead, this one a retired cop. Not
just any copβthe one who took her statement that night. Two
murders, two very different men, two killings that on the
surface had nothing in commonβexcept Miranda.
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