Find My Daughter
Jennifer Chase
384 pages
Bookouture
published February 17, 2025
About the book
She hears footsteps approaching, then the clunk of a heavy lock. Her body is numb in the cold but she stands, determined to fight. A blinding light overpowers her, and the world goes black…
When Detective Katie Scott finds a woman dying in the carpark, blood pooling around her, she reaches her just in time to hear her utter the words: find my daughter.
Katie doesn’t waste a second gathering her team and pulling the casefile for the missing child, Anna Braxton, a teen with sparkling blue-eyes and an even brighter future. Staring at the blank investigation board, Katie won’t rest until she fulfils Anna’s mother’s dying wish.
Searching the Braxton’s impeccable family home, Katie finds Anna’s journal, filled with teenage secrets. Buried among the pages, she thinks she finds a lead—a strange man reached out to Anna, just days before she went missing…
But the case takes a terrifying turn when Anna’s best friend also vanishes. Hours later, a girl’s body is found in the embers of a housefire, her yellow satin dress devastatingly beautiful amongst the ashes. Is it Anna, her best friend, or another girl?
One thing is certain: a monster has the closeknit community of Pine Valley in a chokehold, and Katie must get one step ahead of the killer before any more precious young lives are taken. But at what cost?
A jaw-dropping and absolutely gripping thriller for fans of Lisa Regan, Rachel Caine and Melinda Leigh that will have you racing through pages all night long. Prepare to start sleeping with the lights on after tearing through this gripping thriller from USA Today and Amazon bestseller, Jennifer Chase!
My Review
This is such a good series that includes a K9 partner, Cisco, for Katie. Although in this one, Cisco is mentioned but not featured prominently through most of the book. But I’ll always take whatever animal I can get.
The darkness of the case is offset by Katie and McGaven’s friendship and her helping him with his love life. I like their connection and how well they work as a team. Knowing each other so well will help them get through a harrowing part of the investigation.
This starts out running and the pace never relents. I like the chapters from the killers point of view. It gives me insight, but not enough for me to figure out who it is. It had me doubting every male character in the book at one point or another. He’s an ever-changing chameleon that will keep the team on their toes. He is clever, but Katie has a few tricks up her sleeve to keep him guessing too.
And that ending. I just know there will be a round two. Is it too soon to start wishing for the next book?
About the author
Jennifer Chase is a multi award-winning and best-selling crime fiction author, as well as a consulting criminologist. Jennifer holds a bachelor degree in police forensics and a master’s degree in criminology & criminal justice. These academic pursuits developed out of her curiosity about the criminal mind as well as from her own experience with a violent psychopath, providing Jennifer with deep personal investment in every story she tells.
In addition, she holds certifications in serial crime and criminal profiling. She is an affiliate member of the International Association of Forensic Criminologists, and member of the International Thriller Writers.
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