Great book, I loved the gripping storyline, it kept me hooked all the way through. Highly recommended. 

Many thanks to netgalley and J M Hewitt for the advanced copy of this book. I agreed to give my unbiased opinion voluntarily.

Utterly gripping! Couldn't put this book down, I was so deep in the mystery! 

Carrie and Melanie are great characters. Brilliant.

I really enjoyed this book. The title worked on so many levels and there were a lot of twists and turns that I didn't see coming. Characters were well drawn and believable. I will be looking out for more by this author.

Ooh this was a great book, I just could not put it down at all so it was read in one sitting, great storyline and characters  x

i really liked Carrie as a character, she felt like a real person. the story was as heart-pounding as advertised and I'm glad I was able to read it.

A difficult subject to tackle, but JM Hewitt does it so well A very complex plot with plenty of twists and turns.. A little slow in places, but well worth persevering till the end. Recommended.

The Quiet Girls by J.M. Hewitt is a book that you won't want to put down. The second in the series about detective Carrie Flynn, The Quiet Girls starts with a bang and is just as good as the first book The Night Caller.

Carrie's sister disappeared over twenty years ago, she has always searched for the man who hurt her sister. A new case involving a pedophile and young girls hits too close to home for Carrie. 12-year-old Melanie sneaks into a seemingly empty house on a dare from her cool friends. While in the house, Melanie's friend was assaulted by a man. Thankfully, the girls made it out with little damage, but when Melanie and her family disappear from town, Carrie is on the case to find them.

Where are Melanie and her family? The mother is a successful lawyer, the dad is a stay at home dad who loves his daughter. Where are these people? When another entire family is reported missing, the cops are even more curious. Three teenagers missing from the same school? What is happening in this town?

The Quiet Girls is very will written and will certainly keep a reader on the edge of their seat. The writer does a remarkable job of making Carrie a lifelike character and tying her stories together to bring her closer to the truth of what happened to her little sister all of those years ago. I highly recommend this book!

This was the first book I've read from this author and it was just okay. It was hard for me to get into and the characters didn't keep my attention.

This book was hard to put down once I had started it, a really good insight Into how a tragedy affects everyone involved in different ways I like how the story unwinds as you go through the book would love to read other things by this author

Fantastic read. Fast paced, thrilling and full of plot twists. You will be hooked from the first page. A Detectives past haunts her, a husband of a family uproots the family. What happens next will have you breathless for more. 

Thank you NetGalley, J. M. Hewitt and Bookouture  for this advanced reader edition and hearing my honest review. Looking forward to reading more with you
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I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.   Thank you NetGalley.

The Quiet Girls is the second book in the series featuring Detective Carrie Flynn.    While I haven't read the first book, I didn't feel like I was missing anything exremely important while reading this book. 

This book is definitely  a page -turner...  I was on the edge of my seat for so much of the book.     The suspense was everything I needed. 

Solid great read.

This is the second book in the series featuring Detective Carrie Flynn.  I thoroughly enjoyed the first book and was looking forward to the next one in the series and it certainly didn’t disappoint.  The book opens with three young girls breaking into a house and escaping from the hands of a masked paedophile.  Melanie was one of the girls and her family are worried and decide to move to a deserted nearby island.  Melanie’s father persuades another family with twins to move with them and escape the rat race and live in a safer environment.  Carrie is informed of the disappearance of these three teenagers and so it is a race against time to track them down and make sure they are safe.  This case brings back memories for Carrie as twenty years previous her sister was abducted and that was the reason Carrie joined the police force.  Carrie and her partner Paul make a great team and I look forward to the next book in the series.  A gripping read from start to finish.  A highly recommended book.
Thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book.

‘Hattie!’ Carrie called, an edge to her voice. ‘Hattie, this isn’t funny, come out now.’ Carrie tried calling, shouting, screaming, but everything in the dark woods was quiet. Her little sister was gone.

Detective Carrie Flynn’s sister Hattie was kidnapped when they were both little girls. After the police failed to find the culprit, Carrie swore she would become a detective and solve the case herself. But the face of the man who snatched Hattie is a blank in her memory…
Twenty years later, eleven-year-old Melanie Wilson is reported missing. Carrie fights off memories of her lost sister to concentrate on the case, but she soon finds footage of Melanie boarding a boat and vanishing. Who took little Melanie, and why?
Then the police receive a desperate cry for help from another young girl: I gave you his name, but you did nothing. My blood is on your hands. Carrie traces the call to the same docks where Melanie was last seen.
Carrie is sure the lost girls are in terrible danger – and that there’s a link between her sister’s disappearance and this case. To find Melanie, Carrie must unleash the memories she’s buried for years. And if she uses her own demons to bring Melanie home, can she finally find out what happened to her sister? 

This is a wonderful thrilling new read from this author!
Wonderful well written plot and story line that had me engaged from the start.
Love the well fleshed out characters and found them believeable.
Great suspense and action with that adds so much to the story.
Such a thrilling read that I couldn't put it down.
Can't wait to read more from this author.
Recommend reading.

I was provided an ARC from NetGalley and the publisher.  This is my own honest voluntary review.

The disappearance of a young girl brings the police into the child's home life, looking for clues.  The circumstances are similar to the disappearance of a young girl twenty years prior.  As the story develops, more clues will lead to discoveries that are more than coincidence.  A good read with a unique story line and well developed characters.

This was a book with a police procedural. I normally don't get into these books but I loved it. I was hooked from the first page . Twists, turns, just what I like. Didn't want to put it down.

Detective Carrie Flynn gets called on a case about a missing 11 year old called Melanie Wilson . It also takes her back to when her little sister Hallie went missing but Carrie has blocked out the face of the man who took her so nobody was arrested . Carrie decided that she would become a detective .
While looking over footage she sees Melanie , her family and another family boarding a boat to take them over to the deserted island of Pomona. Melanie’s father has taken them over to the island when Melanie tells them a friend was attacked in a house . 
This book has plenty of twists and turns 
Thanks NetGalley

I tried to like this book but unfortunately it just didn't pull me in like I expected. This is my favorite genre, but there were too many things that seemed overly convenient and unrealistic for my liking.

Having enjoyed DS Carrie Flynn's introduction in "The Night Caller" I was looking forward to her second outing in THE QUIET GIRLS, hoping some of the loose ends left in the first book would be on the way to being tied up in the second. One thing I really hate in books, even those in a series, are loose ends. It's like television shows that end the season on a cliffhanger...it's not like you're not coming back so why leave fans hanging? It's a pet peeve of mine and yet so many authors are guilty of it.

THE QUIET GIRLS begins with a taster for fans where the previous one left off regarding DS Carrie Flynn's past of her missing sister, Hattie. When I read the opening chapter I found myself hoping that there would be more of an element regarding this 20 year old mystery, instead of just being a backstory as it was previously.

But we would have to wait and see for the story then takes a turn as we see Carrie and her DC Paul Harper receive and replay a telephone message over and over from a distraught caller stating they had provided information and nothing was done and that now they were going to take matters into their own hands. The voice was disguised but the closer Carrie listened the more she felt the voice was female. Carrie insists the caller is a victim but Paul isn't so sure, given their intention to possibly commit a crime.

11 year old Melanie Wilson is meeting her two friends, Kelly and Tanisha, in the hope the girls will accept her as "one of them". The three girls decide to embark on an adventure, entering what they thought to be an abandoned house. But when one of them is attacked by a man wearing a grotesque mask who is naked from the waist down, Melanie gets her two friends out as they run for their lives, without looking back.

Melanie's mother Alice arrives home at 7pm to find her husband Harry sitting in the dark, no Melanie, and oblivious to the fact their daughter has not returned home. Alice panics and goes in search of Melanie, relieved to find her disembarking a bus at the end of the street. They return home to find a dishevelled Harry, silently cursing himself for not noticing their daughter was missing.

Later that evening, Melanie discloses to her parents what happened at the house. Harry wants to report it, Alice does not. As a lawyer, she points out that the girls entered a house without permission and probably frightened the occupant with everything else nothing more than Melanie's overactive imagination. Unbeknownst to them, Kelly's mother has taken her daughter off to the police station to report what had taken place inside the house without disclosing Melanie's presence. As Kelly refuses to co-operate, the police can do nothing so the matter is shelved. But Kelly's mother refuses to let it go and organises a group of concerned parents to storm the house protesting the presence of paedophiles preying on their children.

When Carrie and Paul receive a complaint from a resident that they have been targeted by a group naming them as paedophiles, Carrie realises the girls' mother took the matter further. But as the man reveals, it couldn't have been him, or his brother, as they were out of the country at the time and with flight details to prove it. So Carrie must now inform the group of his innocence and move them on. But the resident discloses that while they were away, his brother had organised for a decorator to come in and work on their house however his details have been misplaced. So who was the decorator? Was he the man who assaulted young Kelly Prout?

Meanwhile, Harry Wilson decides that he must keep his family safe and after the incident with the suspected paedophile, particularly Melanie. So without consulting his wife, Harry sells up their house and packs up their belongings and moves them to Pomona island, a remote and abandoned island off Manchester. Also making the move with them are the Hadleys, the father whose carpentry skills Harry would find useful for their new life on Pomona. No one is particularly thrilled with the move but go along with it anyway. But once they get there and the boat that brought them across leaves, they are faced with the reality of their isolation as Harry excitedly organises them into groups to explore the island and where to find food, water and wood.

But as days turn into weeks, things are not going the way Harry had planned. Liz Hadley hasn't even set foot outside their cottage let alone made it a home for herself and her family. Their twins, Willow and Lenon, speak only to each other and spend days in the woods away from everyone else. Not only that, Melanie had seen the brother and sister sleeping in the same bed together, huddled together like lovers. And then there is Alice. Admittedly, she has made their cottage into a little home but aside from that she is not engaging with him or even their neighbours. In fact, she seems to disappear for hours at a time on her own. Only Gabe Hadley and Melanie seem to be on board with this new life. Gabe has built sheds from bits of tin and timber to store their wood for the next winter, while he has been showing Melanie how to make snares to capture rabbits for their meals. Harry feels sure that the others will come round to this new and pure way of life. Or will they?

Back on the mainland, Carrie and Paul have received reports of the Hadley twins going missing and that of Melanie Wilson from their respective schools. When they arrive at the Hadley home to investigate, they find it locked up and abandoned, with the entire family leaving early one morning some weeks ago. Where were they going and why leave under the shroud of the pre-dawn? Were they running from something? Carrie tasks Paul with looking into the Hadley's lives in the hope of uncovering any answers.

Before they have a chance to investigate Melanie's disappearance, they receive information that Melanie had been present when Kelly Prout was attacked and endeavour to question the girl's mother as to why she didn't tell them about it at the time? Whether it made a difference or not at the time, who knows, but what they do know NOW is that Melanie is missing. Did it have something to do with the assault on Kelly? And how was it linked to the Hadley twins disappearance?

Interwoven throughout the story, in alternate chapters, are flashbacks of Carrie and her 6 year old sister Hattie on the day of Hattie's disappearance for which Carrie has always blamed herself. Their mother insisting Carrie take her sister, her promises to see the horses, the long walk to the park as well as Hattie constantly asking for ice cream. We see the lead-up to Hattie's disappearance to when suddenly she is gone.

Whilst investigating the case of these missing children and the possibility of a paedophile in the area, Carrie finds herself haunted by the flashbacks and the nightmare of her sister going missing. But it's her darkest secret she must draw on to help her find these children, as they try to locate the Hadley twins and Melanie and her family.

I thoroughly enjoyed THE QUIET GIRLS far more than the first book, probably because we are given more insight into the 20 year mystery of Carrie's little sister's disappearance. In it we have a little bit more closure, though not completely, which again is frustrating though I hope Jeanette ties those loose ends up for us with the next installment.

What I especially love about this series is that the entire focus is not on the police investigation. In fact in some cases, the investigation takes a backseat to the bigger picture but without overshadowing Carrie and her partner Paul. I find a glimpse into each aspect gives the story more depth.

There is one aspect that didn't sit right with me and that was the ages of each of the "potential" victims of the paedophile. The despicable nature of such crimes notwithstanding, there is an age preference to these people, and yet the ages in this book ranged from young child to pre-teen to adolescent which is not how they work and isn't completely accurate. I felt lumping all ages together was like saying all Muslims are terrorists and all dog attacks are by staffies. It's like I like milk chocolate yet my husband likes white chocolate. It's not a technicality, it's a fact.

Although this is the second book in the series, THE QUIET GIRLS can be read as a stand-a-lone quite easily, but I think you'd be missing out if you didn't read "The Night Caller" first.

I look forward to Carrie Flynn's third outing with her DC, and maybe a loose end or two tied up a little neater to give the rest of us a kind of closure. Definitely recommend!

I would like to thank #JMHewitt, #NetGalley and #Bookouture for an ARC of #TheQuietGirls in exchange for an honest review.

Having read The Night Caller I was so excited to read the second in this wonderful  Carrie Flynn series - even better than the first this is the perfect combination of psychological thriller and detective story.  Never a dull moment, I rushed through to the explosive  conclusion.  Bring on the next one!

This was such a unique read. A police procedural where Carrie and her partner Paul investigate teenagers reported missing by the school system.  A family disappearing to an desolate island Pamona to get away from it all.  Another family joining to help with starting a new community. I had to google to see if anything like this place really existed and it does!!  Its a dark story but gripping with a heartwrenching back tale.