Where the Lost Girls Go (A Laura Mori Mystery #1) by R.J. Noonan

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 “lost girls” 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. 

Review:  Thank you NetGalley for the ARC of Where the Lost Girls Go by R.J. Noonan that I was able to read and review.
This was an excellent book that I found very well written and full of action. Noonan's book is an interesting book with a diverse cast of characters. The main character, Laura is a rookie police officer of Japanese decent, who finds herself on a case involving the death of a girl who is believed to be the daughter of a famous author that is killed in a car crash. As the investigation moves on Laura is partnered up with disgraced officer Zion "Z" Frazier who was in trouble from lodging a complaint against the top Brass. As they get deeper into the investigation they learn the author's daughter Lucy is alive and okay but living in the woods with a bunch of runaways some of which are known as the Lost Girls.
Once Lucy gets home Laura finds out that the girl in the car is not the first of her friends that have disappeared. So Laura and Z start to suspect that Lucy has been killing her friends. Is this teenage girl a killer who gets rid of her friends when she gets sick of them or is there something more going on?
Also the police Lieutenant Charlie Omak is working his own case. His sister was a police officer for the force who died under questionable circumstance that he is investigating. With the help of the Mayor he is trying weed out the dirty cops that may have had something to do with her death. This is an ongoing investigation that was setup in this book and teased a lot but I believe it will play a large part in an oncoming book.
This book was very well written and I found it very interesting with all the different types of people in the book. I loved the fact that the lead police officers were both minorities. I think this is the first time I remember reading that in a book with them each being a different minority race. I also loved how I was not sure who the killer was until the very end. I kept second guessing and trowing my theories out. I love it when an author can do that to me and Noonan did that to me multiple times in the book so I am very impressed. I can't wait until the second Laura Mori Mystery comes out just to see what Noonan has up her sleeve next.
Where the Lost Girls Go get five out of five starts.