I've been handing this out to my true crime fans for years now, and finally made the time to read it myself.

While it reads like a true crime podcast thanks to the fictious transcript portions, it shines by offering so much of what true crime often cannot -- the perspective of the subject.

Sadie is going to stick with me for so many reasons, some of it is the exemplary writing in both plot and prose, and the deft way we sink deeper and deeper into the darkness. A remarkable side cast offers glimmers of reality that cannot break through to Sadie herself, just glimpses of life outside how desperate hers has become on her hunt for her sister's killer. Enough to break the starkness and shine a light back to real life outside the pages.

To quote the book "girls go missing all the time."

Every single one is worth caring about.