the girl who was taken, what happened to nicole
Back in the solar day… and before the series took a turn for the worse (or jumped the shark as they say in Television set-country) I was a fan of Patricia Cornwell'south Kay Scarpetta serial. I loved the coroner / sleuth combo. It was new at the fourth dimension, though of course became increasing pop in books and on Goggle box after Dr Scarpetta blazed that trail, leading to the likes of Silent Witness and iZombie. 😉
Although The Girl Who Was Taken past Charlie Donlea isn't really almost the work of a coroner as such, information technology's centred around one and I very much enjoyed the detail / enquiry and expertise Donlea inserted into his plot and characters.
The Daughter Who Was Taken
by Charlie Donlea
Published by Bantam
on April third 2017
Source: Penguin Random Firm Australia
Genres: Thriller / Suspense
ISBN: 9780143784463
Pages: 340
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Nicole Cutty and Megan McDonald are both high school seniors in the small-scale boondocks of Emerson Bay, North Carolina. When they disappear from a beach political party one warm summer night, police force launch a massive search. No clues are found, and hope is virtually lost until Megan miraculously surfaces later on escaping from a bunker deep in the woods.
A year afterwards, the bestselling business relationship of her ordeal has turned Megan from local hero to national celebrity. It s a triumphant, inspiring story, except for one inconvenient detail: Nicole is still missing. Nicole's older sis Livia, a boyfriend in forensic pathology, expects that 1 day soon Nicole's trunk will be found, and it will exist up to someone like Livia to clarify the evidence and finally determine her sister'due south fate. Instead, the showtime clue to Nicole s disappearance comes from another body that shows upwards in Livia'southward morgue that of a boyfriend continued to Nicole'southward past. Livia reaches out to Megan for assist, hoping to learn more than about the night the ii were taken. Other girls have gone missing as well, and Livia is increasingly certain the cases are connected.
But Megan knows more than she revealed in her blockbuster volume.
Flashes of retentiveness are coming together, pointing to something darker and more than monstrous than her chilling memoir describes. And the deeper she and Livia dig, the more they realize that sometimes true terror lies in finding exactly what y'all've been looking for.
Similar so many of the books I read (well-nigh all, perhaps?) this book jumps about in time.
The very likeable Livia is doing the hard yards every bit an intern in forensic pathology, awaiting the inevitable arrival of her sister when a potential suicide ends upward on her table. Someone who a friend of Nicole'southward says was – in fact – Nicole's boyfriend around the time she disappeared.
Also in the nowadays Megan's released her 'tell-all' volume, predominantly to offer her parents the closure they so desperately need. Information technology was mostly written past her therapist and Megan continues to struggle with random memories and cannot envision the bright future she once had.
In the past we encounter both Megan and Nicole in the days earlier they were taken. Megan's the boondocks sheriff's daughter and all-circular proficient girl; whereas Livia discovers Nicole's behaviour had taken a turn for the worse and she wonders how well she knew her much-younger sibling.
Donlea seamlessly jumps between timeframes, offering up the context we need to empathise our characters as the plot unfolds.
Livia feels goose egg merely disdain for Megan who's received great accolades every bit a result of her ordeal, but is forced to phone call upon her once she finds cases similar to that of Megan and her sister and the pair form an unlikely partnership.
There's a scrap bubbling beneath the surface in this novel and it highlights some interesting fetishes and sinister motives. I'd planned to start reading this volume and finish information technology the following night but had to alter my plans and end it in a sitting.
It wasn't predictable, just there's a limited suspect pool and then we know someone nosotros've met is gonna turn out to be far more unpleasant than they are at kickoff glance, only we're kept guessing for quite some fourth dimension.
The only slightly weird thing virtually this book is that the girls are kidnapped in late 2016 and it'due south a year later when we meet Megan and Livia – late 2017. Information technology felt a lilliputian presumptuous reading most events taking place in September / October 2017 (given that April is only only now upon us)…. only of course I'1000 conscious that readers could come up upon this book at whatsoever time in the time to come.
* As an aside, I'd non come across Donlea before and assumed he was a she. I afterward wondered why I was so surprised and guess it'southward because he nails the female lead characters so well. (And now I'one thousand gonna have to ponder how many male writers create fabulous female characters. Argh.) #overthinker
The Girl Who Was Taken past Charlie Donlea was published in Commonwealth of australia by Penguin Random House and is at present bachelor.
I received a copy of this book from the publisher for review purposes.
Source: https://www.debbish.com/books-literature/the-girl-who-was-taken-by-charlie-donlea/
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