Girl Missing (Previously published as Peggy Sue Got Murdered)
A Novel
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4.0 • 9 Ratings
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Tess Gerritsen, bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series, her stunning first thriller! Previously published as Peggy Sue Got Murdered
“Gerritsen has a knack for creating great characters and mysterious plots that seem straightforward but also dazzle with complexity and twists.”—Associated Press
A beautiful young woman’s corpse is found dumped in a garbage-strewn alley. Now laid out in the office of medical examiner Kat Novak is an unidentified body that betrays no secrets—except for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. When a second victim is discovered, Kat begins to fear that a serial killer is stalking the streets, using a deadly drug to do his dirty work. The police are skeptical. The mayor won’t listen. One of the town’s most prominent citizens, with a missing daughter of his own, is also Kat’s chief suspect. As the death toll rises, Kat races to expose a deadly predator who is close enough to touch her.
“[Gerritsen] has an imagination that allows her to conjure up depths of human behavior so dark and frightening that she makes Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft seem like goody-two-shoes.”—Chicago Tribune
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Before she created our favorite crime-fighting besties, Rizzoli and Isles, Tess Gerritsen published her first romantic thriller, Girl Missing. The story stars Boston medical examiner Kat Novak, who’s baffled by a series of suspicious overdoses. Is a new drug or a depraved killer—or both—responsible for the deaths of several women in the city’s poorest neighborhoods? While Kat wrangles with uninterested cops and a prominent local businessman, she also contends with her growing attraction to a handsome pharmaceutical rep who may know more than he’s letting on. This well-crafted mystery had us riveted start to finish.
