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Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter
Thriller

Girl, Forgotten

by Karin Slaughter

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In Karin Slaughter’s latest, a newly minted marshal on assignment can’t help being drawn into a gruesome cold case...

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    Psychological

  • Illustrated icon, Icon_400

    400+ pages

  • Illustrated icon, Icon_WellKnownAuthor

    Famous author

  • Illustrated icon, Icons_2ndSeries

    Second in series

Synopsis

A small town hides a big secret . . .

Who killed Emily Vaughn?

Prom Night. Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn dresses carefully for what’s supposed to be the highlight of any high school career. But Emily has a secret. And by the end of the night, because of that secret, she will be dead.

Nearly forty years later, Andrea Oliver, newly qualified as a U.S. Marshal, receives her first assignment: to go to Longbill Beach to protect a judge receiving death threats. But Andrea’s real focus isn’t the judge—it’s Emily Vaughn. Ever since she first heard Emily’s name a year ago, she’s been haunted by her brutal death. Nobody was ever convicted—her friends closed ranks, her family shut themselves off in their grief, the town moved on—so the killer is still out there. But now Andrea has a chance to find out what really happened . . .

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This books contains mentions of sexual assault.

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Why I love it

An unsolved murder haunting a small town. A group of cliquish and sinister students. A creepy cult with an evil leader. Just writing these out, I can’t help humming “My Favorite Things” from The Sound of Music. But these are just some of the plot elements from Karin Slaughter’s latest humdinger of a thriller, Girl, Forgotten. It sounds like a lot, but if you are familiar with Slaughter’s books, then you know she can put a lot of balls in the air and keep them up there, in mesmerizing patterns, while the chapters fly by.

Slaughter’s new book is the second featuring Andrea Oliver, following her debut in Pieces of Her. In this standalone sequel, the rookie U. S. Marshal is now tasked with protecting a judge who’s received a series of death threats, while also being asked to secretly investigate that judge’s daughter’s murder from forty years ago. There are many secrets in this book, and toward the end, the revelations come fast and flabbergasting. But what I most love about this story is that Slaughter has written a classic whodunit. There’s a closed circle of suspects, red herrings aplenty, and I imagine that most readers, like myself, will change their minds as to the identity of the killer many times before all is revealed.

A twisty and devilish read, Girl, Forgotten is another excellent thriller from Karin Slaughter. And I, for one, would very much welcome plenty more encounters with the ever-resourceful and gutsy Andrea Oliver.

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Member ratings (16,069)

  • YESENIA M.

    MIAMI SPRINGS, FL

    After reading 𝘗𝘪𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘦𝘳 and now finishing 𝘎𝘪𝘳𝘭, 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯... I am... officially a Karin Slaughter fan. Fast paced. Suspenseful. Gripping. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

  • Leah L.

    Columbia City, IN

    I always enjoy stories w/ overlapping/intersecting timelines and this was no exception! A lot of twists and not at all the ending I was expecting. Also, Phenomenally/frustrating “villain” characters!!

  • Jennifer K.

    Lakewood , CO

    4.5/5⭐️ this book was slow at first but really got me hooked when it picked up. I never imagined the killer being who it was. I hated almost all of the characters but I think that was the point haha!

  • Dede S.

    Mesa, AZ

    I was disappointed at the beginning when I realized it was a sequel. It really stood on it’s own. I really enjoyed how Andrea, the lead character, really came into her own and solved all the mysteries

  • Kaitlyn R.

    Orlando, FL

    So good. Love that Andrea was back again and getting to see her character developed more. The book is suspenseful and once you think you e got it figured out *boom* wrong, or I’m just not that smart.