Leave the Girls Behind is a strange read. An intriguing idea, and a fascinating character, but things felt so disjointed that it felt harder work to read than it really should have. Thanks to NetGalley for giving me the chance to read and review this before publication.
Our main character Ruth works in a downtown New York bar. She is obsessed with a small Connecticut town that seems to have its share of horror, with a number of young girls from the area having gone missing. Ruth appears to talk with the ghosts of the dead, and she has alerts sent to her phone if a child is missing in the area.
Before we know it, Ruth is fabricating reasons to speak with a trio of women who appear to have links to the man who abducted and killed one of the girls. She won’t reveal what she knows, and can’t help but think they are each hiding something.
There is a reason Ruth is so determined to get answers. We start to realise what it is before Ruth chooses to reveal the truth to us, but it felt like a rather unrealistic situation.