Before She Disappeared: the gripping must-read crime thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author
Jan 2021 · Random House
4.8star
12 reviews
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Your Next Obsession . . . A gripping thriller featuring an ordinary woman who will stop at nothing to find the missing people that the rest of the world has forgotten.
* Sunday Times bestselling novel *
* Multi-million copy bestselling author *
* TV series optioned! *
'I read Before She Disappeared in a day and a half, it was that gripping' Shari Lapena
'Original, chilling and so gripping I had to remind myself to take a breath' Clare Mackintosh
'A first-class crime novel by a master of the thriller genre' David Baldacci
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Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman with more regrets than belongings who spends her life doing what no one else will: searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking.
A new case brings Frankie to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough reputation. She is searching for Angelique Badeau, a Haitian teenager who vanished from her high school months earlier.
Resistance from the Boston PD and the victim's wary family tells Frankie she's on her own. And she soon learns she's asking questions someone doesn't want answered.
But Frankie will stop at nothing to discover the truth, even if it means the next person to go missing will be her ...
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Readers love Before She Disappeared . . .
***** 'I'm shaken, slowly crying, barely gathering right words to tell how I wholeheartedly loved this book!'
***** 'I have always loved Lisa Gardner's books and her new Frankie Elkin series is just as intriguing and exciting as all the others I have read.'
***** 'This is yet another wonderful mystery/suspense novel from Lisa Gardner.'
***** 'An outstanding thriller.'
***** 'Loved it! It was an absolute page turner for me, I flew through it in one day.'
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'A rocket-fuel-propelled thriller that will leave you breathless' Gregg Hurwitz
'Tense and immersive' Booklist
'A crackling mystery, gritty atmosphere and an unforgettable heroine.' Riley Sager
'There's only one thing to ask for by the time the book ends: please, please, a sequel and a series!' New York Journal of Books
'A sharply written, tension-filled yarn full of twists readers are unlikely to see coming' Associated Press
'Sharply-written, tension-filled yarn full of twists readers are unlikely to see coming.' Daily Mail
'This time [Lisa] truly hits it out of the park. ' Tess Gerritsen
* Sunday Times bestselling novel *
* Multi-million copy bestselling author *
* TV series optioned! *
'I read Before She Disappeared in a day and a half, it was that gripping' Shari Lapena
'Original, chilling and so gripping I had to remind myself to take a breath' Clare Mackintosh
'A first-class crime novel by a master of the thriller genre' David Baldacci
___________
Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman with more regrets than belongings who spends her life doing what no one else will: searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking.
A new case brings Frankie to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough reputation. She is searching for Angelique Badeau, a Haitian teenager who vanished from her high school months earlier.
Resistance from the Boston PD and the victim's wary family tells Frankie she's on her own. And she soon learns she's asking questions someone doesn't want answered.
But Frankie will stop at nothing to discover the truth, even if it means the next person to go missing will be her ...
___________
Readers love Before She Disappeared . . .
***** 'I'm shaken, slowly crying, barely gathering right words to tell how I wholeheartedly loved this book!'
***** 'I have always loved Lisa Gardner's books and her new Frankie Elkin series is just as intriguing and exciting as all the others I have read.'
***** 'This is yet another wonderful mystery/suspense novel from Lisa Gardner.'
***** 'An outstanding thriller.'
***** 'Loved it! It was an absolute page turner for me, I flew through it in one day.'
___________
'A rocket-fuel-propelled thriller that will leave you breathless' Gregg Hurwitz
'Tense and immersive' Booklist
'A crackling mystery, gritty atmosphere and an unforgettable heroine.' Riley Sager
'There's only one thing to ask for by the time the book ends: please, please, a sequel and a series!' New York Journal of Books
'A sharply written, tension-filled yarn full of twists readers are unlikely to see coming' Associated Press
'Sharply-written, tension-filled yarn full of twists readers are unlikely to see coming.' Daily Mail
'This time [Lisa] truly hits it out of the park. ' Tess Gerritsen
Ratings and reviews
4.8
12 reviews
Grace J. Reviewerlady
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January 21, 2021
I don't tend to read a lot of missing person type novels as they can be quite distressing, but couldn't pass up the chance of Lisa Gardner's latest book - and it is a cracking read! Frankie Ellon is a bit of a nomad; she owns very little and travels around to wherever there are unsolved missing person cases - ones that are no longer being worked on although there is no satisfactory resolution. It's something she's good at, so she travels around to wherever she feels she is needed to help families find closure. This is how this slight, white woman finds herself in a rough, mainly black, area of Boston where a teenage girl disappeared eleven months ago and her family have been left in limbo. Frankie seeks no fame, fortune or notoriety; only to put matters to rest - one way or the other. As she begins to dig deeper, someone out there doesn't like Frankie's presence.. This is an author who is always worth reading; even though I couldn't see where things were heading at the beginning, nothing would have stopped me from continuing and before long I was completely engaged in an exciting tale. People go missing all the time; we hear about them but rarely discover the whole truth. The characters are skilfully crafted and fully rounded with a wide range of likeable and unlikeable traits. Frankie herself is quite fearless - like her roommate - and she is both tenacious and admirable. I can see why she's so slim - she never stops! The story plays out beautifully with several moments of breath-holding and hearing my hammering pulse! With everything neatly tied off by the end, this is a thrilling novel and one I'm happy to give 4.5*.
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Amanda Ludlow
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February 16, 2023
Good book enjoyed it
About the author
Lisa Gardner started her writing career aged seventeen. Having caught her hair on fire while working in food service, crafting a novel seemed a safer bet. A mere ten years later she became an overnight success with the publication of her first thriller, The Perfect Husband.
Now an internationally bestselling author and winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for best suspense novel, Lisa lives in the mountains of New Hampshire with her family.
When not glued to her computer, she can be found hiking the mountains with her dogs and/or researching new and interesting ways to get away with murder.
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