Hello!
Just finished another mystery thriller called
Two Girls Down by Louisa Luna.
From Amazon:
When two young sisters disappear from a strip mall parking lot in a small Pennsylvania town, their devastated mother hires an enigmatic bounty hunter, Alice Vega, to help find the girls. Immediately shut out by a local police department already stretched thin by budget cuts, Vega enlists the help of a disgraced former cop, Max Caplan. Cap is a man trying to put the scandal of his past behind him and move on, but Vega needs his help to find the girls, and she will not be denied. With little to go on, Vega and Cap will go to extraordinary lengths to untangle a dangerous web of lies, false leads, and complex relationships to find the girls before time runs out, and they are gone forever.
This book kept my attention and read it fairly quickly. I really liked the Vega and Cap characters and I think the author will write more books with these investigators. I also enjoyed the mother, Jamie, of the two young girls that disappeared…she knows she isn’t the best mom and feels like they are a burden at times, but we watch her go through all the emotions and devastation when her girls disappear. Overall, it’s a great read and would recommend it to all that like a good mystery thriller.
The things that lower my 5 star rating to a 4 star rating is that there are so many characters introduced and revisited it was difficult to remember who was who. You may want to keep a cheat sheet as a book mark! When the mystery is solved, the book goes very dark and I didn’t see that ending coming at all, which is a good thing, but almost too far out in right field. Is the ending believable…yes, do that investigators need to go down all the routes to get to the ending, yes. It’s just that you will not see the ending coming at all. This book will definitely keep you guessing!
Overall, I would give this book a 4 out of 5 stars!