Thank you to Leanne and Dreamscape Media for an advanced copy.

To me: this is a slow burn thriller. You heat up a lot at the beginning, then leave the book to simmer in the middle, then it lights up again at the end. If you like that style of book, you will like Every Missing Girl (I would recommend picking up the first book too then to get fully immersed in the Kendall Beck world). However, if that's not your jam, you may not enjoy this book. Slow burn thrillers are okay to me, which is why I give this a 3/5 stars.

We follow Kendall Beck, an FBI special agent for missing children, and Adam, a detective on the Denver PD. They worked together in the first book I believe, but it's not necessary to read the 1st book to enjoy this one.

One day, after a hockey game, Adam's niece, Frankie, goes missing. Adam, however, has to focus on a double homicide investigation instead of his niece's disappearance (this is the heat at the beginning). The middle is a ton of investigating scenes with not much hope until the last 2 hours of listening to the book. For 5 hours it was all investigating that seemed to be dead ends and for me, I prefer there to be at least a nugget of movement here and there in a thriller.

The investigation in the middle also involves A LOT of people, considering there are two investigations happening at once yet Adam is involved in both. It can get a little muddled. However, the ending does wrap everything else up nicely (which I love) and I was left actually WANTING a 10 year in the future epilogue (which never happens for me).

DEFINITELY check the content warnings for this book, it handles some very heavy topics. Overall, a slow burn thriller read that I'm sure fans of the thriller genre in general will enjoy.