How to Find a Missing Girl
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4.0 • 7 Ratings
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
"The voice that this generation's mystery readers have been waiting for...How to Find a Missing Girl is edge-of-your-seat compelling from beginning to end." —#1 New York Times bestselling author Chloe Gong
For fans of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and Veronica Mars, this whip-smart thriller follows a sapphic detective agency as they seek the truth behind a growing trail of missing girls in small-town Louisiana.
A year ago, beloved cheerleader Stella Blackthorn vanished without a trace. Devastated, her younger sister, Iris, launched her own investigation, but all she managed to do was scare off the police’s only lead and earn a stern warning: Once she turns eighteen, more meddling means prison-level consequences.
Then, a year later, the unthinkable happens. Iris’s ex-girlfriend, Heather, goes missing, too—just after dropping the polarizing last episode of her true crime podcast all about Iris’s sister. This time, nothing will stop Iris and her amateur sleuthing agency from solving these disappearances.
But with a suspicious detective watching her every move, an enemy-turned-friend-turned-maybe-more to contend with, and only thirty days until she turns eighteen, it’s a race against the clock for Iris to solve the most dangerous case of her life.
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High school senior Iris Blackthorn is the gutsy lead investigator in her three-person amateur detective group, the Blackthorn Agency, which she started with best friends Imani and Sammy shortly after her cheerleader older sister Stella disappeared a year ago. When Iris's ex-girlfriend Heather, who hosts a podcast about Stella's disappearance titled How to Find a Missing Girl, also vanishes, Iris knows that she and her partners must investigate. Police immediately assume that Heather's football player boyfriend is responsible for her disappearance, but the clues Iris unearths tell a different, and far more complicated, story. With local detective de Rosa breathing down her neck for "sabotaging my investigation," Iris must be careful to stay a few steps ahead to avoid reprimand. But scary anonymous texts sent to Iris make it clear to the teen sleuths that they have more than the police to worry about. An action-filled climax introduces new characters and unique dynamics that elevate this emotionally raw mystery from an anticipatory whodunit to an introspective and high-stakes thrill ride. The cast is intersectionally diverse. Ages 14–up.
