#before she disappeared

Publication Date: January 19th, 2021

Rating:  ★★★

Before She Disappeared is Lisa Gardner’s first standalone in twenty years. Frankie Elkin is almost your average middle-aged woman- except for the fact that she’s a recovering alcoholic who spends her time tracking down missing people the world has forgotten about. Her search for new cases leads her to a Boston neighborhood in search of Angelique Badeau. Finding the missing Haitian teenager becomes increasingly difficult Frankie comes to discover, but she won’t stop trying to uncover the truth.

Lisa Gardner is a creative author and a favorite of mine, but this wasn’t my favorite book of hers. I didn’t connect with Frankie the way that I normally like to with characters. You can definitely see the logic behind her character, I just wanted more. She did have some funny dialogue, if you’re the type to like the occasional witty remarks in your mysteries.

I love the entire concept of this book, of the main character being someone who closes these cases that no one else can (or wants to). I also enjoyed the ending!

Thank you to Penguin Group/Dutton, Edelweiss, and Lisa Gardner for this ARC.

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Saylor Rains

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