Ellery Hathaway survived an abduction when she was 14 years old. A serial killer had taken her on her birthday and she was rescued from the closet by FBI Agent Reed Markham who'd gone on to write a best selling book about the case. Now, years later, Ellery is working as a police officer in Woodbury, Massachusetts. No one there knows her past but then people start vanishing, exactly one year apart, right around her birthday. No one at work believes that these missing persons require much investigation nor do they agree that these are all connected and that a new killer might be working the area. Since she has no support from her Chief or fellow officers, Ellery contacts Reed Markham and asks him to come to Massachusetts to look at the files. Ellery knows that somehow this is connected to her and her past. NO SPOILERS.
This is the first in a series featuring the former kidnap victim turned policewoman Abigail Ellery Hathaway. She's an interesting protagonist with her history and her scars and I intend to get to know her better by reading the next books in the series. I liked the story and the writing style as it kept me engrossed enough to read it all in a single sitting. Even though I had it all figured out before the team, I still enjoyed the details of the police procedural.
Thank you to NetGalley and Minotaur Books for this e-book ARC to read, review and recommend. I appreciate that it was still available to download even though it was published in 2017 as I like to start at the beginning of a series and read the books in order. I have #2 and #3 queued up.
This is the first in a series and I suggest reading in order.
Genre - crime thriller, police procedural
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