A missing sister that leads to an award winning true-crime podcast that carelessly unravels a wrongful incarceration? That’s enough, you had me at missing sister.

This book was a wild ride. Difficult to put down and believable enough that it could be true.

Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Group Putnam for an advance copy of this book.

I really enjoy a podcast read! A book where podcast are involved.
This book was a fast paced read!
Devoured it in 24 hours! Because I had to find out what happened next after each chapter!
Really a great book!

Marti Reese has been living under the weight of her sister Maggie’s abduction/disappearance for 20 years. She was the last one that saw Maggie, who vanished after she got into the car with a stranger in their affluent Chicago suburb.

20 years later, Marti is still looking for Maggie everywhere she goes. The possibility of a Jane Doe, who matched her description, turned Marti’s life into a tailspin, destroying her marriage. But it also creating a podcast about the revelation and about Maggie’s disappearance, which won a major award.

Contacted by a grieving sibling, Ava, Marti dives right in, hoping the connections will match and help her find Maggie’s killer at last.

I found <i>The Lost Girls</i> to be a fast-paced, to the point mystery. I’ve read a lot of podcast related novels recently, as that’s the new “thing”, but thankfully that remains on the periphery here.

I enjoyed the authors dive into Marti’s mind and her reasoning behind her actions. I did find that with the introduction of Ava, her descriptions were almost too detailed, compared to Andreas.

I would like to thank the publishers and NetGalley for the advance copy of this novel in exchange for my honest review.