Audiobook Review: Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner

Before She Disappeared
Author: Lisa Gardner
Narrator: Hillary Huber
Series: Frankie Elkin (Book 1)
Publication: Brilliance Audio (January 19, 2021)
Length: 12 hours and 7 minutes

Description: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner, a propulsive thriller featuring an ordinary woman who will stop at nothing to find the missing people that the rest of the world has forgotten

Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will--searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking.

A new case brings her to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough reputation. She is searching for Angelique Badeau, a Haitian teenager who vanished from her high school months earlier. Resistance from the Boston PD and the victim's wary family tells Frankie she's on her own--and she soon learns she's asking questions someone doesn't want answered. But Frankie will stop at nothing to discover the truth, even if it means the next person to go missing could be her.

My Thoughts: Frankie Elkins in a woman on a mission. She looks for missing people. She's not a pro. She's a recovering alcoholic and she feels guilty for past mistakes.

She arrives in Boston looking for Angelique Badeau who is a fifteen-year-old who has been missing for eleven months. She gets Angelique's aunt to give her permission to poke around which puts her afoul of the police who haven't given up on the case but who haven't had any good leads for a while. 

She gets a job in a local bar and begins meeting people and asking questions. And, gradually, she discovers what the police have not including that a second teen girl is also missing. And for the first time in fifteen cases, Frankie is able to bring a girl home. 

This audiobook was narrated by Hillary Huber. I enjoyed the way she ramped up the suspense and really illuminated Frankie's character. 

I bought this one June 30. You can buy your copy here.