The Girl Who Ran Away

The Girl Who Ran Trilogy, Book 1

De: Susan Lund

Narrado por: Janelle Bennett

A new missing-persons case, a prime suspect, and questions about an old friend challenge amateur sleuth and crime reporter Tess McClintock and FBI Special Agent Michael Carter in The Girl Who Ran Away, the first book in the Girl Who Ran trilogy and another installment in the McClintock-Carter Crime Thriller series.

While Tess McClintock finishes writing her articles about Eugene Kincaid for the Seattle Sentinel, the girlfriend and daughter of an old college friend go missing. When their car turns up abandoned on a remote logging road in the mountains, Tess' friend becomes the prime suspect.

Tess enlists FBI Special Agent Michael Carter to help her discover whether her old friend is responsible for their disappearance.

©2019 Susan Lund (P)2020 Susan Lund

Good but there were a couple of headscratchers

* Spoilers*
The storyline really had me hooked. The ending was just preposterous. Why would a law enforcement officer turn his back on someone he is suspicious of and whom he just caught in a lie? As a result, he gets waylaid and evidence is stolen. It was so unbelievable. And then, there is the ending. If the victim kills a pedaphile in self defense, why go on the lam? The deceased's activities are easily proven since he was filming them and there is also the DNA testing done on his child/grandchild. The reason given for running away: that the child would be taken away and placed in the foster care system. This was just ludicrous. It's too bad. The plot was pretty good but it was cheapened by writing an ending that just looked like an excuse to write Book #2. I'll stop at Book #1.