The Girls Before

The Girls BeforeFrom the bestselling author of What Lies in the Woods, No One Can Know, and A Killing Cold, a new novel about a search & rescue expert, a kidnapped woman, and the lost girls who haunt them both. There is a girl in a basement. The door has stopped opening. The light is gone. Stranger is trapped in the dark, with only her imagination and the scribbles on the wall left by long dead girls to keep her company. Nearly out of food and water, she makes one

and the chilling reality that the losers might also lose their lives

a century-old hotel that’s survived every one of those storms

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a California Highway Patrol officer

In their quest to do better for their sons in death than they did in life

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millions are out of work and drought has devastated the Great Plains

a striking coming-of-age debut about friendship

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and they’re always destroying something or saying something dumb or both

Pretentious artists jockeying for attention