Kiss Her Goodbye
A Frankie Elkin Novel
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4.1 • 12 Ratings
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
A New York Times bestselling author returns with the latest installment in the addictive Frankie Elkin series, in which Frankie is called to Tucson, Arizona, to find a missing Afghan refugee, whose friend suspects she is in grave danger—before it is too late. “Timely and completely gripping.” (Louise Penny, New York Times bestselling author)
Recent Afghan refugee and young mother Sabera Ahmadi was last seen exiting her place of work three weeks ago. The local police have yet to open a case, while her older, domineering husband seems unconcerned. At the insistence of Sabera's closest friend, missing persons expert Frankie Elkin agrees to take up the search just in time for a video of Sabera to surface—showing her walking away from the scene of a brutal double murder.
Frankie quickly notes there's much more to the Ahmadi family than meets the eye. The father Isaad is a brilliant mathematician, Sabera a gifted linguist, and their little girl Zahra has an uncanny ability to remember anything she sees. Which given everything that has happened during the girl's short life, may be a terrible curse.
When Isaad also disappears under mysterious circumstances and an attempt is made on Zahra's life, Frankie realizes she must crack the code of this family's horrific past. Someone is coming for the Ahmadis. And violence is clearly an option.
When everything is on the line, how far would you go to protect the ones you love? Frankie is about to find out.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A gifted refugee’s disappearance is only the tip of the iceberg in this elaborate and engaging thriller. Three weeks have passed since Afghan refugee Sabera Ahmadi went missing, leaving behind her young daughter, and neither the police nor her own husband seem concerned. But when itinerant missing-persons expert Frankie Elkin comes to Arizona to hunt for her at the request of a friend, she soon finds that Sabera, and the entire Ahmadi family, not only have specialized (and sometimes unacknowledged) talents, but someone may be targeting them for reasons hidden in their war-torn past. Delving into Sabera’s privileged youth in Kabul and the horrors she was forced to flee, author Lisa Gardner deftly alternates between the puzzling present and the terrifying past, with the beloved loner Frankie expertly deciphering the subtle clues and red herrings created by her characters’ history and the troubling times along the way. With its page-turning action and tension-filled suspense, Kiss Her Goodbye kept us breathless.
