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.
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