A review by ncrabb
The Girls She Left Behind by Sarah Graves

3.0

Lizzie Snow works as a deputy sheriff in a rural Maine town. She left the homicide unit in Boston to take the job in Maine in an effort to look for her missing niece. What she didn’t plan on is the extreme need for her services in a rural town. As the book opens, two teenage girls—cousins—are together and are both kidnapped. The snatcher takes the girls to a location wherein other women are being kept. But one of the two girls escapes. Years later, the kidnapper has escaped from prison and may be in Bearkill, Maine where Lizzie works. Worse still, a 14-year-old girl who was thought to have run away sends her mother a bone-chilling text that simply read “Help me.” Is Tara Wylie the latest kidnap victim?

The thing that stood out for me with this book is its fast pace. I almost felt like I’d been exercising as I read this. You move rapidly from scene to scene, and you’ll want to lean into this book in order to keep up with it.