Police officer Miranda Rader has come a long way from the teenaged "wild child" that she used to be. It only took an abduction and a night of terror to turn her life around. She and another girl were abducted at the same time by the same man. Only Miranda was able to escape. Although she tried very hard to get the police to believe her and go back to rescue the other girl, no one believed her and did not allow her to show them where the other girl was being held. Instead, she was branded a liar and sent to juvie for six months.
It was during this time that she decides that she wants to become a member of law enforcement. Now, still living in the small town of Jasper, Louisiana, she has been on the police force for ten years. Up until one night when she is called to a particularly gruesome crime scene. A well-known college professor is found in a most horrible way. Clearly, he is dead. Something is not right about any of it, however. Miranda's chief of police is the one who has called her to the scene personally, and Miranda does not understand why the two of them are the only ones there except for the first responding officers.
That is just the beginning. Miranda is on her way down a very dark rabbit hole into the past and what she finds at the end could not be more shocking.
As a long time fan of Erica Spindler's work, I knew I could expect a true roller coaster ride of a brilliant blend of mystery, suspense, and romance and I was right. Ms. Spindler has once again spun a tale that guarantees to involve her readers and have them chomping at the bit to know exactly what is happening. Why is Miranda obviously being railroaded in this investigation? There are many secrets being kept and I simply could not stop reading THE OTHER GIRL until the final page. It is doubtful that other readers will not feel the same way as they eagerly join investigating who seems to have it in for Miranda because she is definitely being put in a frame for this murder.
For those of you who have never read a book by Erica Spindler, THE OTHER GIRL might be just the one that gets you hooked. I have had the pleasure and privilege of reading all of her books and can promise you that you will not be disappointed no matter which book you choose to begin your journey with Ms. Spindler. Once you begin, however, you will not want to stop at just one of her books.
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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