Before she disappeared a novel [LP]

Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman with more regrets than belongings who 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 attentio...

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Main Author: Gardner, Lisa (Author)
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language: English
Published: New York : Random House Large Print, 2021.
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Frankie Elkin ; 1.
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Summary: Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman with more regrets than belongings who 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 Frankie to Mattapan, a Boston neighbourhood 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 will be her
Physical Description: 500 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 9780593395639
0593395638
Author Notes: Lisa Gardner received a degree in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993. At the age of 20, she sold her first novel, Walking after Midnight, under the pseudonym Alicia Scott. After graduating from college, she became a management consultant and continued to write romance novels in her spare time. She eventually became a full-time author. She wrote 13 romance novels before turning to thrillers. Under the pseudonym Alicia Scott, her romance novels include The Quiet One, Brandon's Bride, and Marry Me...Again. Under Lisa Gardner, her thrillers include The Other Daughter, I'd Kill for That, Touch and Go, and Crash and Burn. She also writes the FBI Profiler series and the Detective D.D. Warren series.

(Bowker Author Biography)