Vanishing Girls

Detective Josie Quinn #1
Vanishing Girls (2018)

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Vanishing Girls opens with a disappearance that jolts the small town of Denton: a well-known teenage girl vanishes, and the search for her quickly turns urgent. But Detective Josie Quinn uncovers something even more unsettling when the case leads her to another girl no one even realized was missing. From there, the novel takes on a darker, more claustrophobic edge, with Josie following a trail that suggests the danger is larger and far more disturbing than a single missing-person case. What gives the premise its pull is not just the race against time, but Josie herself—a detective whose personal history and sharp instincts make the investigation feel especially intense and emotionally charged. It has the feel of a tense police procedural, but one driven just as much by fear, vulnerability, and the desperate need to reach the truth before another girl disappears.