Before She Disappeared, Lisa Gardner
Before She Disappeared, Lisa Gardner
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Before She Disappeared

Bestseller

Author: Lisa Gardner

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Unabridged: 12 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/19/2021


Synopsis

2022 Audie Award Finalist for Best Female NarratorTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner, a propulsive thriller featuring an ordinary woman who will stop at nothing to find the missing people that the rest of the world has forgottenFrankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will--searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking. A new case brings her to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough reputation. She is searching for Angelique Badeau, a Haitian teenager who vanished from her high school months earlier. Resistance from the Boston PD and the victim's wary family tells Frankie she's on her own--and she soon learns she's asking questions someone doesn't want answered. But Frankie will stop at nothing to discover the truth, even if it means the next person to go missing could be her.

About Lisa Gardner

Lisa Gardner was raised in Hillsboro, Oregon and graduated from the city’s Glencoe High School. A #1 New York Times crime thriller novelists, she has several thrillers including The Killing Hour and The Next Accident. She describes herself as a research junkie and her work as a research analyst for an international consulting firm parlayed her interest in police procedure, cutting edge forensics and twisted plots into a streak of internationally bestselling suspense novels, including her most recent release, Find Her.

With over 22 million books in print, Lisa is published in 30 countries. Her success crosses into the small screen with four of her novels becoming movies (At the Midnight Hour; The Perfect Husband; The Survivors Club; Hide) and personal appearances on television shows (TruTV; CNN).

Lisa currently lives in New Hampshire with her auto-racing husband and black-diamond skiing daughter. She spends her days writing in her loft with a gentle old sheltie and a wonderfully silly puppy.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer on September 25, 2023

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

Goodreads review by Sydney Books on July 11, 2024

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

Goodreads review by Michael on January 19, 2021

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

Goodreads review by Ceecee on December 14, 2020

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

Goodreads review by JanB on March 18, 2022

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


Quotes

"Prolific, award-winning narrator [Hillary] Huber delivers a gripping performance that draws listeners in quickly and holds on tightly in the first standalone from Gardner in nearly two decades.… Huber’s sardonic tones bring Frankie’s sarcastic and sharp character to life in an engaging way, setting this crime novel apart from similar titles in the genre."
Booklist

“Narrator Hillary Huber's wry intonation perfectly matches the personality of loner amateur detective Frankie Elkin.… Huber's pace quickens as Frankie races to make Angelique the fifteenth girl she recovers, and, she hopes, the first one to be found alive.” AudioFile Magazine

“Fans of this incredible author, police procedurals, timely immigrant stories, strong determined women, and tales that are not tied up with a pretty bow at the end will not be able to get enough of this intense page-turner.”--Library Journal (starred review)