A Map of the Dark - Karen Ellis
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FBI agent Elsa Myers specializes in missing children. When a seventeen year old goes missing, she, despite her father critically ill in a hospital awaiting hospice care, teams up with an NYPD detective, Lex Cole, to find the girl.
Like so many protagonists, Elsa is a damaged individual and the narrative behind it as well as its longterm effects tends to eclipse the missing child plot. As is a popular format today, the story is told from multiple viewpoints and shifts between past and present.
A bit cliched and perhaps a little bit too good to believe, I still found it an engrossing read. I look forward to the next in the series where I hope some of the childhood trauma will be less prominent and Elsa will still be working with Lex.
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