by Lisa Gardner
First published 2021
Frankie Elkin makes her living finding people others have forgotten. A middle-aged recovering alcoholic with few possessions, she takes cases the police have abandoned and the media ignores. Her latest search brings her to Mattapan, where sixteen-year-old Angelique Badeau disappeared from high school months ago. The Boston neighborhood has a dangerous reputation, and Frankie quickly discovers that nobody wants her there. The police department brushes her off. Angelique's family views her with suspicion. Someone clearly wants the teenager to stay missing. As Frankie digs deeper into Angelique's life, the resistance grows stronger. The questions she asks make powerful people nervous. But Frankie refuses to walk away from a case, even when her investigation puts her own life at risk. She will find Angelique Badeau or die trying.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: determined-protagonist, missing-person
Setting: Mattapan, Boston
400 pages · Hardcover · Dutton
Content warnings: violence