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Last Girl Gone
Last Girl Gone: A Laura Chambers Mystery | J. G. Hetherton
7 posts | 10 read | 5 to read
This pulse-pounding series debut is the next obsession for fans of Julia Keller and David Bell, and readers of unflinching thrillers. Sometimes, the journey home is the most harrowing. And its every parents worst nightmare. 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, boringat 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 Lauras been waiting forher 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.
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Tattooedteacher
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Mehso-so

A reporter moves back to her home town to restart her career after making a mistake in the big city. She stumbles upon a possible serial killer story. Now she can‘t let the story go. Not a bad story, but I thought quite often that it was just too long and didn‘t have any surprising moments. Never left me with my mouth hanging open.

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Tattooedteacher
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1. I used to, then when my kids got old enough they started doing it.
2. Fun socks are a big yes. My shoe size it 7.
3. Black, hot pink and purple.
4. I like scarves
5. It‘s cliche but I love bookmarks if all kinds.
6. I have so many. It‘s hard to say.
7. Nay

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Tattooedteacher
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In the middle of this one. So far it‘s just ok. I think it will get better when I can listen to it while commuting. I find it difficult when I only have short bits of time to read. It makes it difficult to get into a book.

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Allthebookclubs
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Pickpick

What a crazy ride! I did not guess the ending, even when I thought I did. It was pretty morbid and very suspenseful. As one little girls turns up dead and another missing, one woman in the town notices and starts to make a connection with other girls who met a similar fate from years ago. Unfortunately, the towns people say she‘s calling wolf and don‘t believe her thanks to a mishap at her last job in the big city. Book #50 in 2021

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AudiobookingWithLeah
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Mehso-so

❐ Overall Rating 3⭐ | Narration 😔 = Did not like

This could be a case of it‘s not you, it‘s me...because a lot of people really liked this. I think my biggest issue stemmed from the narration. She just didn‘t sell this for me. Overall, I found it difficult to stay in the story...whether it was the writing or just that I had too much on my mind at the time...IDK.

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SailorJohn
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Laura, the story teller, is an investigative reporter, and it is a quite a story she goes after. Don‘t read if you don‘t like reading about serial killers.

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TuesdayReviews
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Pickpick

An assured debut, more thriller than mystery. Several solid twists, well executed if not totally shocking. https://hillbillyhighways.wordpress.com/2018/11/07/last-girl-gone-jg-hetherton/