From two-million-selling author Steena Holmes, nine dark and gripping stories featuring Detective Meri Amber.

Nine missing girls. Nine cases the world wants to forget. One detective who never will.

Each file is someone’s daughter. Someone’s sister. And if Meri Amber can’t bring them home, she’ll make sure their stories end with justice.

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As the FBI’s leading child abduction specialist, Meri has spent her career chasing the vanished – from Minnesota to Montana, from abandoned barns to dark cellars that still echo with screams. But every case cuts deeper than the last.

“I’m Detective Meri Amber. I’ve been searching for my sister for twenty years. Every missing girl is a mirror. Every scream behind a wall could be hers.

“I’ll never stop looking. These are the stories of the girls I’ve found, the truths I’ve uncovered, and the cracks in my own past I can’t seem to seal.”

From the horrifying secrets of the House of Dolls, to a macabre twelfth birthday party, to the sinister truths buried in the Widow’s Barn: delve into nine intriguing mysteries which will chill you to the bone.  

NINE NAIL-BITING STORIES FULL OF SHOCKING TWISTS BY A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR.

My Review

I read The Girls in the Basement a year ago and thought it was brilliant. It was my introduction to Detective Meri Amber. Meri has been looking for her sister who disappeared twenty years ago. She will never give up. Every time a new missing girl, a new victim is discovered, Meri hopes it will shed some light on her sister’s abduction. Even if the victim turns out to be her sister it will give her closure.

In Nine Missing Girls, we have nine separate stories, nine rules, each story about a different girl, but they are all linked. Certain names like Caleb Rusk and Andy Rawlings keep cropping up. Caleb is a volunteer with the Search and Rescue crew, except his boots are always clean, while Rawlings makes deliveries to the same places where Caleb volunteers. Many of the homes like Moon House are run by ‘religious’ fanatics with an agenda. Girls are disciplined, locked away, hidden.

But not all. In one story three girls make a pact. One leaves, they all leave or die. But why did they make the pact? If you tell someone the same thing over and over, soon they will believe you.

A House of Dolls is spooky and weird. Then there is a twelfth birthday party where the girls are always twelve years old. In What the River Took body parts are found in the river. The river gives up its secrets eventually. Then there is Luce in The Girl with a Broken Smile, who doesn’t speak and has a forced smile.

Nine Missing Girls is beautifully written and constructed, the language is very typical of the author. It’s unmistakable as her ‘voice’.

Many thanks to @ZooloosBT  for inviting me to be part of this blog tour.

About the Author

With 2 million copies of her titles sold worldwide, Steena Holmes was named in the Top 20 Women Author to read in 2015 by Good Housekeeping. She continues to write books that deal with issues that touch parents’ heart, whether it is through her contemporary fiction or psychological suspense novels.

To find out more about her books and her love for traveling, you can visit her website at http://www.steenaholmes.com 

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