Before She Disappeared
Lisa Gardner
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Frankie is a recovering alcoholic who has lost the love of her life and abandoned her life to devote herself to tracking down cold case missing people, especially minority women. All of her possessions fit into one small suitcase as she travels around the country and she has closed 14 cases. Her latest brings her to Boston to search for a Haitian immigrant who had been living with her aunt and younger brother until she disappeared 11 months ago. Frankie takes a job as a bartender in a bar in the dangerous neighborhood in which the missing girl lived and moves into a room above the bar, sharing it with a psycho cat.
As she works to gain the trust of people related to the case, as well as the local police, new clues come to light and Frankie’s life is in danger.
Lisa Gardner is a successful, prolific writer, and this is a good addition to her body of work. I found it difficult at first to warm to the main character whom I found a bit unbelievable, but as Frankie tells people, her personality did grow on me in time. Fast paced, a quick read, with an ending suggesting that this may be the beginning of a new series……..
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