Laura Mori is a policewoman but this is not the job she thought would be her dream job. Her parents certainly didn't want their daughter to be a cop but Laura loves her job. Now she is the lead on a new case and it is the first case Laura will be the lead.
There was a car accident where a young woman was killed and she was the daughter of the rich author Kent Johnson. The car belongs to Kent, but after the autopsy, it is not Lucy but Kyra, a runaway who is dead. But where is Lucy? Laura and the police believe this accident was really murder.
Kent Johnson is a very strange man. His second wife Martha is always making excuses for the way he is. Martha and Lucy do not get along at all. So, of course, Martha is making Lucy look like she is a spoiled brat and would not be surprised if Lucy had something to do with this.
What Laura finds in her investigation is that there is a group of runaways that live in the forest behind Lucy's family estate. The head of this group is a young man known only to them as the Prince. Prince takes in all of the runaways and has control over them. One by one several of the runaways have come up missing. All of the missing girls at one time had been best friends with Lucy. In fact, they all at one time or another live at the estate.
SO, who would want all of the lost girls gone? Could it be Lucy and her jealousy of them? Or Kent who had a strange fixation with young girls, or Martha the jealous wife.
R.J. Noonan, WHERE THE LOST GIRLS GO is a great book. I feel the only one in this book who is not flawed is Laura. But then again she does have some small flaws. Talk about a family that is so dysfunctional. They didn't even trust each other. All three trying to put the blame on someone other than themselves.
I truly couldn't believe the ending. Not at all what I expected. Great book, hope she writes more books with Laura being the main character. I think you could do a whole series on her and her investigations.
Rookie cop Laura Mori catches her first investigation when
the fiery crash of a sports car lights up the night sky. The
fire burns the body beyond recognition, but the police are
able to identify the car as that of Kent Jameson, celebrity
author and benefactor of Sunrise Lake. And Jameson fears
that the unidentified body is his seventeen-year-old
daughter Lucy, who stormed out of the house that night after
an argument.
When lab reports reveal that the body was not Lucy, but a
teen runaway named Kyra whose disappearance has been linked
with other missing persons--more than half a dozen βlost
girlsβ who disappeared while living on the streets of
Portland--the investigation takes a drastic turn. How did
Kyra come to land at the Jameson estate in rural Oregon, and
what was she doing driving their car? And who cut the brake
lines on the vehicle?
Just when Laura is making progress in the case, she comes
across a suspicious lane in the forest that uncovers new
evidence that will once again alter the course of the
investigation and rock Sunrise Lake to its core. R. J.
Noonan's electrifying mystery will resonate with fans of
Lisa Gardner and Lisa Jackson.
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