Girl Last Seen [electronic resource] : A Novel

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-- I've spent a long time peering into the faces of girls on missing posters, wondering which one replaced me in that basement. But they were never quite the right age, the right look, the right circumstances. Until Olivia Shaw, missing for one week tomorrow.Whoever stole me was never found. But since I was taken, there hasn't been another girl.And now there is.A Hachette Audio production.

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Hachette Audio,

Date:

2017

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CLOUDLIBRARY MP3

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Anglais

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An intense psychological thriller for readers of I Am Watching You, The Luckiest Girl Alive, and All the Missing Girls.

Two missing girls. Thirteen years apart.

Olivia Shaw has been missing since last Tuesday. She was last seen outside the entrance of her elementary school in Hunts Point wearing a white spring jacket, blue jeans, and pink boots.

I force myself to look at the face in the photo, into her slightly smudged features, and I can't bring myself to move. Olivia Shaw could be my mirror image, rewound to thirteen years ago.

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I've spent a long time peering into the faces of girls on missing posters, wondering which one replaced me in that basement. But they were never quite the right age, the right look, the right circumstances. Until Olivia Shaw, missing for one week tomorrow.

Whoever stole me was never found. But since I was taken, there hasn't been another girl.

And now there is.

Critiques (3)

Critique du Publishers Weekly

Laine Moreno, the traumatized narrator of Laurin's emotionally powerful but plot-challenged debut thriller, is barely managing to sleepwalk through her solitary existence in Seattle a decade after being freed from three years of horror at the hands of a captor who was never caught. Then the highly publicized disappearance of 10-year-old girl Olivia Shaw gives her a jolt. Although the missing girl comes from privilege, a world away from Laine's precarious childhood with a junkie single mom, their physical resemblance is startling enough to suggest to Laine that their cases might be connected. The same notion strikes Det. Sean Ortiz, one of the two cops who initially discovered Laine by the edge of a deserted road. All too swiftly, Laine's efforts to help save Olivia start to threaten both her tenuous stability and her life itself. Laurin creates a compelling, vulnerable central character, but Det. Ortiz and several members of the supporting cast function largely as devices to propel a story arc ultimately more clever than convincing. Agent: Rachel Eckstrom, Irene Goodman Literary Agency. (June) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Critique de Kirkus

A decade after escaping from a kidnapper who held her prisoner for three years, a young woman must face the reality that he's taken another little girl.Thirteen years ago, Ella Santos existed. Now that girl is gone, replaced by Lainey Moreno, an acerbic woman who subsists on cigarettes and whatever pills she can find, trying desperately to forget the years she spent locked in a basement with the man who raped her. Until she sees a missing poster for 10-year-old Olivia Shaw, privileged where Lainey was poor, loved where Lainey was neglected. Improbably, the detective on the case is Sean Ortiz, the traffic cop who found Lainey the day she got away, the only one who doesn't think Lainey is broken beyond repair. The refrainand it becomes an almost literal one throughout the increasingly predictable narrativethat Lainey believes she is worthless but Sean sees her potential grows tiresome, as do the allegedly shocking but actually humdrum revelations about Lainey's past and her connections to Olivia. Laurin, in her debut, tries for psychological depth by sidestepping the victim role for her heroinean admirable choicebut instead plonks her in the decidedly less interesting resigned-vigilante camp, where her sense of agency disappears as fast as the pills she swallows. It's not challenging to root for a character who's damaged, but it is hard to find common ground with someone who's constantly negating her own self-worth in place of an actual plot. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Critique de Booklist

At 23, Lainey Moreno is barely keeping things together, working two part-time jobs to be able to live alone in a tiny apartment in a bad neighborhood in Seattle and buying enough drugs to keep nightmares of her past at bay. She was taken at 10 by a kidnapper who released her after three years when she was pregnant with his child. Now another 10-year-old girl has disappeared; she's Olivia Shaw, adopted daughter of wealthy Jacqueline and Tom Shaw, and she's Lainey's biological child. Sean Ortiz, a patrolman who showed Lainey kindness when she was 13, is now a detective who asks her help in finding Olivia, and he's also the man Lainey has loved from afar for a decade. Lainey, who lacked sufficient memory to help authorities find her own kidnapper, makes repeated mistakes and goes into a downward spiral in the hunt for Olivia before she has a breakthrough. Laurin's novel is nearly as compelling as it is depressing in detailing Lainey's story to a hair-raising, violent climax. A promising debut.--Leber, Michele Copyright 2010 Booklist