If Andrea can find evidence that her father was somehow involved, it might keep him locked up for a while longer, which would mean that her mother and herself could breathe easy for another while. US Marshal Andrea Oliver arrives in Longbill Beach on her first assignment: to protect a judge receiving death threats. And hanging around on the fringes, but never quite accepted into the fold, was Cheese - Jack Stilton, the Police Chief's son. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

The emotionally sophisticated characters work through the brutality of their jobs in this dynamic psychological thriller and police procedural that will please readers of Slaughter's "Grant County" series. And despite Andrea’s newfound freedom, it’s hard to imagine the Laura Oliver from book one being fine with sitting back and letting her only, precious daughter try her hand at a dangerous profession while there’s still people out there that want her dead.

This is a cold case with links to Andrea's imprisoned birth father, the psychopath Clayton Morrow, aka Nicholas Harp, who is up for parole in 6 months, she plans to secretly investigate the cold case in which he is a suspect. The way Slaughter tells the story of Andrea's father is very clever and because of this, I'll have to bump my rating up. Andrea meets up with her new partner, Leonard "Catfish" Bible, and they set out to keep the judge safe, while Andrea investigates the cold case secretly on the side. In an unexpected twist, she finds herself secretly investigating an unsolved murder from forty years ago. Taking place two years after the ordeal of mom Laura and daughter Andrea, Andy has decided to become a US Marshall and make something of her life.

Although Andrea's job was protection, she also wanted to solve the forty year old murder of Emily back in 1982. Forty years later, Andrea Oliver, newly qualified as a US Marshal, is sent to Longbill Beach to investigate death threats being made against a judge. I liked the nostalgic elements of the 1982 sections and readers of a certain age will, no doubt, take some pleasure in being reminded of some of the socio-cultural references made. And I have to say, these flashbacks are not a fun, nostalgia-filled romp, but instead almost exclusively contain cruelty and violence. You know that the book you hold in your hands is going to hit all of the marks of character, plot, storyline and setting.Of course, it is perfectly possible that readers familiar with book one may have been able to appreciate certain elements more fully, but Karin Slaughter does a perfectly decent job of introducing the essential background information into the narrative, so that new readers are put suitably in the picture. She and Catfish come across a harrowing young woman's suicide on a fava bean farm owned by Wexler, running a cult with female 'volunteers' that resemble walking corpses. years later her murderer still remains free, the murder unsolved as her former tightknit friendship group closes ranks.

This intriguing detective crime thriller is told between 1982 and present day and narrated by Andrea and Emily. At the same time, she’s trying to solve the cold case of Emily Vaughn, a pregnant teenager who was brutally murdered forty years prior. Emily has been ostracised by her former friends and expelled from high school due to her pregnancy, but she refuses to just disappear. Through the production of the "Pieces" Netflix adaptation she started to wonder what would have happened to Andrea, and thus this book baby was born. Barefoot, in pain, she pushes aside all attempts to deter her from going to the prom from the likes of teacher Dean Wexler, this includes threats and physical violence, was it her secrets that resulted in her being murdered later that night?

The thread involving the cult is almost secondary, but weaves into the main story with the involvement of two of the main characters. Andrea journeys to Longbill Beach and starts to unearth the mystery of what happened to Emily on that fateful night forty years ago. I really like the 1982 start of the novel which shocks you in several ways though it does plateau a bit after that picking up pace later on. However, if you do choose to read Girl, Forgotten first then fret not, there is enough information and backstory present to partially fill the gaps. Emily's pregnancy could hardly have come at a worse time for the Judge who is busy brokering her next step up the career ladder.

Nobody was ever convicted - her friends closed ranks, her family shut themselves off in their grief, the town moved on - so the killer is still out there. With thanks to NetGalley and the UK publisher for my digital ARC to read in exchange for an honest review.So all of you review skimmers, this is your first an only warning: there will be spoilers for Pieces of Her below!