Thank you to the author, publishers Harper Collins and NetGalley UK for access to this as an advance reader’s ebook. This is an honest and voluntary review.

 

I’m glad I recently watched the Netflix adaptation of Karin Slaughter’s prequel to this one, Pieces of Her, because it helped refresh my memory of Andrea Oliver and her discovery about the lies her mother told and how they influenced her life.

 

In Girl, Forgotten we see the aftermath as a few years later Andrea is completing her training to become a US Marshal. Her first job sees her assigned to judge security in her biological father’s home town and with a side mission to discover if her father was responsible for the murder of the judge’s teenage daughter in the early ‘80s.

 

I really enjoyed the glimpses back to the lead up to the original crime. They were a great way to get to know Emily, the murdered girl, and offer a heartbreaking insight into how painful it is for a teenager to be ostracised by her friends and family.

 

As ever Karin Slaughter doesn’t shy away from the darkness in people, even the unintentional darkness and hurt which comes from self-interestedness. 

 

Great plot, well told, and nice to see these characters return and be joined by new ones. I particularly hope we get to see Andrea’s Marshal partner Leonard ‘Catfish’ Bible return in any sequels. I loved him.

 

Also very excited to see in the author acknowledgements a teaser that a new Will and Sara book is in the future. I was worried those characters might have been retired, but thankfully it looks like we’ll welcome them back soon.