Before She Disappeared

I’m shaken, slowly crying, barely gathering right words to tell how I wholeheartedly loved this book and how deeply affected me with its resonating, realistic, deeply layered character portraits! That’s why Ms. Gardner is one of the most brilliantly talented authors who creates broken but willful, f......more

4.5* wtf this was so good why haven’t I been reading this author???......more

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY! “I’m growing on you, I can tell.” “Forget Detective Lotham. Maybe I’m growing on the entire population of Mattapan.” “What I lack in discipline I make up for in my personality.” That is just SOME of the praise Frankie Elkin gives herself while talking to other characters in Lisa......more

Frankie Elkin is an alcoholic who moves across the country searching for missing people, chiefly from minority groups. She’s a restless soul, driven to help those perhaps to save herself from her inner demons. She makes her way to Mattapan an overcrowded and run down area of Boston, where she helps......more

2.5 stars Frankie is a recovering alcoholic who is fighting her demons and a past that haunts her. For ten years she has traveled the country working cold cases as a “citizen detective” looking for missing children, typically those who are disenfranchised, and/or from a minority population. She works......more