Book Review: Girl Forgotten by Karin Slaughter

I jumped into this head first, blind as a bat, and came out on the other side with a new thriller author on my list of greats. Damn, what a book!

The plot: newly minted US Marshall Andrea Oliver is sent to Longbill Beach to protect a judge who’s been receiving death threats. Simple enough, right? Except, there’s a horrifying cold case in Longbill Beach, concerning a girl who was murdered forty years ago and a killer who was never found. The twist? The girl was the judge’s daughter. The other twist? The killer might have been Andrea’s dad.

I’m not going to give away more than that, even though I really want to – and I promise, though it sounds like I’ve given away a lot, I haven’t. I hadn’t heard of Karin Slaughter before I picked this up (I think I saw it in an audible sale, skimmed the blurb, and was sold immediately, and I really feel like I ought to! Slaughter is a great writer, short and concise when she needs to be, but incredibly well-research and detailed when it matters. It took me ages to read this, but honestly that was just my fault, it was really a well-written and easily-read book.

And the story is fantastic! A cold case, a new case, so many things to uncover and to dig through with pieces to put together all over the place – yeah, like I said, fantastic. The characters are all nuanced and well-developed, and I felt like I’d read twenty books in this series by the time I as finished with this one. And of course, there’s a very interesting setup for a future book.

So yeah, if you’re into crime thrillers and mysteries, you’re definitely going to love this one.

Oh, and if you’re into those kind of books, I’d love it if you checked out my crime thrillers as well! Fast-paced action with mysterious twists, you can find them all here.

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