“My name is Frankie Elkin and finding missing people is what I do. “Before She Disappeared” ends with a semi-cliffhanger. In an afterward, she says she discovered “an entire world of amateurs who seek to make a difference by working missing persons cold cases.” She also spent much time researching the locale, giving us a real feel for the Boston neighborhood and says that Haitian meat pies are her new favorite food.ĭespite being touted as a standalone, there may be more of Miss Elkin. With “Before She Disappeared,” she has done her homework. Warren, Lisa Gardner delves deeply into her protagonist’s psyche in this tough, street-level, socially conscious thriller. “Angelique Lovelie Badeau deserves to come home.”īest-selling author of the long-running suspense series starring Boston Police Det. Maybe the question shouldn’t be why I am doing this, but why isn’t everyone looking?

Too many will never be found, often based solely on the color of their skin. Elkin, a white middle-aged recovering alcoholic, plans to “rent a place, find a job, and question the neighbors.” Mattapan is a rough, poor, crime-ridden, mostly-Haitian neighborhood. Walked out of her school on a Friday afternoon in November and then … Poof. “Angelique disappeared eleven months ago from Mattapan, Boston. Three weeks before, she found a woman drowned in her truck at the bottom of a lake, now she is on her way to Boston, to search for a missing teenager. A self-described crazy woman, Frankie Elkin spends her days searching for people who have been lost.

Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner