When We Go Missing
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- $25.99
Publisher Description
New York Times bestselling author April Henry delivers a true-crime-style mystery featuring a teen determined to save a missing girl she sees in a disturbing photo.
What if you found evidence of a crime, but no one believed you?
Seventeen-year-old Willow always has a camera around her neck. She volunteers as a photographer at Finding Home, an animal shelter. When Willow stumbles upon a lost camera memory card, it’s filled with hundreds of photos of teenage girls. Some are smiling, others look unaware, and a few seem terrified.
The police tell her taking photos in public isn’t a crime. But Willow can’t seem to let it go, especially after she finds her own photo on the card. So Willow teams up with new volunteer Dare to figure out what happened to the girls. As their investigation heats up, so does the chemistry between them. But everyone around Willow seems to have a secret: Finding Home’s owner, her own mom, and even Dare. When Willow learns that some of the girls on the camera card have gone missing, she realizes the unknown photographer might be a serial killer. Can Willow find him before he finds her?
And don’t miss these other chilling thrillers from April Henry including In the Blood, Stay Dead, Girl Forgotten, and Two Truths and a Lie.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A teen races to uncover the origin of disturbing photographs in this unsettling thriller by Henry (Stay Dead). Portland, Ore., 17-year-old Willow O'Connor, a talented photographer, works at Finding Home, an animal rescue agency that specializes in hard-to-adopt animals. Along with taking pictures for the agency's website, Willow completes most of the day-to-day duties with Finding Home's elderly director, and trains new volunteer Dare, also 17, in everything from how to walk a dog to the rules and hierarchy of the local dog park. Then Willow finds a lost camera memory card on the sidewalk that's filled with hundreds of posed and unposed pictures of pretty girls, some of whom appear terrified. After the police brush her off—"It's not a crime to take people's photos"—and she finds a picture of herself on the card, she enlists Dare to help investigate. Interspersed throughout steady third-person narration following Willow and Dare are chapters detailing real estate agent Ryan, who readers quickly learn is the owner of the lost memory card. The well-paced narrative effectively balances the central mystery with numerous subplots, including the adoption agency's financial ups and downs and Willow and Dare's budding romance. Comedic canines such as French bulldog Pierre provide laughs amid the tension. Most characters are white. Ages 14–up.
