Little Girls Sleeping (Detective Katie Scott #1) - An absolutely gripping crime thriller

Jennifer Chase

Bookouture

2019

314 páginas

10h 28m

ISBN-10: 1786818302

She looked at the smiling, eager face of the little girl in the photograph, with dark hair, bright-green eyes, a missing front tooth, and her entire life ahead of her. Chelsea was last seen walking back from a friend’s house one summer afternoon. She never made it home…

An eight-year-old girl, Chelsea Compton, is missing in Pine Valley, California and for Detective Katie Scott it’s a cruel reminder of the friend who disappeared from summer camp twenty years ago. Unable to shake the memories, Katie vows she won’t rest until she discovers what happened to Chelsea.

But as Katie starts to investigate – her PTSD flashbacks kept at bay with the help of her loyal ex-military dog, Cisco – the case reveals itself to be much bigger and more shocking than she feared. Deep in the forest, she unearths a makeshift cemetery: a row of graves, each with a brightly coloured teddy bear.

Tracing the silk lining the coffins, Katie links the graves to a stack of missing-persons cases involving young girls – finding a pattern no one else has managed to see. Someone in Pine Valley has been taking the town’s daughters for years, and Katie is the only one who can stop them.

And then another little girl goes missing, snatched from the park near her home…

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A Katie é uma personagem bacana, mas a conclusão desse livro deixou tanto a desejar. Talvez ela fosse solucionar o caso, mas acabou sendo revelado a ela — e ao leitor — antes que ela pudesse faze-lo, acabou jogando fora todo o esforço da querida durante o livro todo. Também tem coincidências demais acontecendo num livro de investigação. Ainda bem que fulano tava ali na hora certa e sentiu a sensação X em diversos momentos. Enfim, gostei mas podia ter sido bem melhor aproveitado.
E o detetive Templeton que jogou a carreira no lixo a troco de nada??