“A fast-moving
page-turner. . . .
Donlea skillfully
maximizes suspense by juggling narrators and time all the way to the shocking final twists.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Donlea’s sophomore effort is solid. He keeps the reader guessing and second-guessing until the end, thanks to an expertly crafted abundance of potential suspects.”
—Library Journal
“Chilling and suspenseful.
I was gripped from the first page.”
—Candice Fox, bestselling author
of Crimson Lake
Her
Truth
Was Only
Half The
Story. . .
“Well worth the read.”
—Booklist
PRESS KIT
The Girl Who
Was Taken
Tags: #Thriller #Suspense #Mystery #Psychological #Crime #Kensington
#Charliedonlea
@CharlieDonlea
#NorthCarolina
#forensics
#fiction
Book Details
Pub Date: April 25, 2017
320 Pages
Formats:
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e-book
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Hardcover
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Audio
ISBN-10: 1496701003
ISBN-13: 978-1496701008
ASIN: 978-1496701008
Publisher: Kensington
Sold by Penguin Random House
Language: English
Coming MassMarket Paperback
Mar 27, 2018
S U M M A R Y
#TheGirlWhoWasTaken
Two women—one, the sister of a missing girl; the other, a victim who escaped—come together to unmask a killer in this heart-stopping thriller.
Her truth is only half the story . . .
Megan McDonald is a high school senior when she disappears from the small town of Emerson Bay. Hope for her safe return is nearly lost until, after two weeks held captive, she escapes from a bunker hidden deep in the woods.
Now, one year later, the bestselling account of her ordeal – Missing – has turned Megan from local hero to national celebrity. It’s an inspiring story, except for one inconvenient detail. A second girl went missing that night. Her classmate, Nicole Cutty.
Dr. Livia Cutty is a fellow in forensic pathology, training at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina. Her sister, Nicole, has been missing a year when the body of a young man – an apparent suicide – shows up in the morgue and offers Livia the first clue to Nicole’s fate. Livia reaches out to Megan for help, hoping to learn more about the night the two were taken. Others girls have gone missing, and Livia is increasingly certain the cases are connected.
But Megan is reluctant. She knows more than she has revealed. As flashes of memory continue to return, she realizes her blockbuster book is filled with lies, and that digging too deeply into the night she escaped from that bunker might reveal something darker and more monstrous than anything her chilling memoir describes.
“Chilling and suspenseful.
I was gripped from the first page.”
—Candice Fox, bestselling author of Crimson Lake
If you loved THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, don't miss this sensational suspense thriller, that will keep you guessing to the very end . . .
Her truth is only half the story . . .
BOOK DETAILS
Paperback
9780143788225
May 14, 2018
Bantam Australia
Trade Paperback
9780143784463
April 3, 2017
Bantam Australia
352 pages
e-book
9780143784470
April 3, 2017
Random House Australia
352 pages
