Last Girl Gone

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What to expect

Investigative journalist Laura Chambers is back in her tiny hometown of Hillsborough, North Carolina, the one place she swore never to return. Fired from the Boston Globe, her career in shambles, she reluctantly takes a job with the local paper. The work is simple, unimportant, and worst of all, boring—at least until a missing girl turns up dead, the body impeccably clean, dressed to be the picture of innocence.

Years earlier, ten-year-old Patty Finch left home and never made it back. But for the people of Hillsborough, Patty was just the beginning. Child after child disappeared, a reign of terror the town desperately wants to forget. Now that terror has returned to seize another girl. And another. And another.

This is the story Laura’s been waiting for—her one last chance to get back onto the front page. She dives deeper into a case that runs colder by the second, only to discover the truth may be far closer to home than she could have ever imagined. Powerful, intricate, and tense, Last Girl Gone will have you looking over your shoulder long after the last page.

Critics Review

  • “[A] promising debut and series launch…Hetherton delivers a realistic look at contemporary newsroom culture that bodes well for future installments.”

    Publishers Weekly
  • “Forget sleep. Forget everything. No one will pry this book out of your hands until the last diabolical twist.”

    Brian Freeman, author of The Night Bird
  • “A stunning debut that takes the reader down a dark and vivid rabbit hole. The twists and turns come fast and furious…Swiftly paced, riveting, poignant, and real.”

    David Bell, author of Bring Her Home
  • “Perfectly paced and plotted from its dramatic beginning to its twist ending, Last Girl Gone is a compulsive read that will keep the reader turning pages.”

    Christine Carbo, author of The Weight of Night

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