3.75/5 stars rounded up.

Detective Casey White has been hoping that one day she will be reunited with her daughter who was taken from her 14 years ago. When she finds a teenage girl in the woods in nothing but a nightgown, she hopes that it’s her daughter, Hannah. Instead, it’s a young girl named Cheryl Parry who was taken 9 years ago with her sister. Cheryl’s sister wasn’t as fortunate and was found dead. The bodies of young girls keep being found in the woods and it becomes clear that there is a serial killer who is very good at what they do. Casey is determined to not only find the killer, but also to find her daughter.

I wouldn’t say that I “enjoyed” reading (listening to) this book as it was pretty dark and depressing, but I appreciated the story. It’s never easy to read stories like this but yet it’s something that can and does happen.

I kept rooting for all of these young girls and Detective Casey. I desperately wanted the killer caught, her daughter found, and these girls safe.

I thought the narrator did a pretty good job reading this story. It was pretty engaging and I thought the pacing was pretty solidly paced up until the ending. The ending of this book almost felt a bit rushed to me and left me feeling slightly underwhelmed. I think the execution could’ve been better and the ending could’ve been stronger for me.

I had trouble visualizing this as the Outer Banks and I kept forgetting that this was where the story took place.. I’ve honestly never been, but based off of everything I’ve seen in photos and movies, it didn’t align to me. A small detail but something that threw me off.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the audio copy of this book. All opinions are my own.