Girl, 11 - Amy Suiter Clarke
She read
Publication Date: April 20, 2021
Elle Castillo hosts a true crime podcast featuring cold cases of missing children. In her sights is The Countdown Killer, who has not been active in 20 years. Someone contacts her, saying he knows who the killer is. Before she can meet with the informant, he is murdered and soon another child goes missing. While Elle is attempting to help find the girl, another child, all too close to her, is taken. Is The Countdown Killer back? Is it a copycat? Is her podcast to blame?
The plot is decent in this fast paced thriller. Told primarily from Elle’s point of view interspersed with transcripts of her podcasts, the reader learns something about the minds and actions of serial killers and raises an important question about the role of society’s fascination with true crime programs and their focus on the perpetrators. Elle’s involvement in the case, initially at the invitation of the police department and her almost too good to be true husband, does strain credulity a bit, but does not take too away from a decent read.
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