The Girls on Chalk Hill Lexi Bennet Series Book 1 – ARC Book Review

hey lie on the hillside, wearing matching white dresses, tiaras in their blonde hair. Each of them clutches a red rose. They could be sleeping, but frost shines on the lashes of their wide blue eyes, frozen open forever…

Detective Lexi Bennett is devastated when she finds the two teenagers lying side by side on the quiet green hillside, their throats cut. Convinced this is no ordinary killer, she vows to draw on all her profiling experience to find justice for these beautiful girls who will never have the chance to grow up.

But when the victims are identified as Lucy and Eden Carter, Lexi’s blood turns cold. The sisters were triplets – and the third girl, Paige , is missing. The case suddenly feels frighteningly personal. Lexi was a triplet too, and she and her sisters were abducted as teens. Two of them escaped but Lexi’s dreams are still haunted by memories of the faceless man who took them, and her sister Rose , who she never saw again.

Her boss thinks she’s too close to the case, but Lexi is sure the monster who took her is back with a message. She throws herself into the investigation, hunting down every clue, certain that time is running out to save Paige.

Then she returns home to find the back door open and Rose’s diary on the kitchen table. As she traces her beloved sister’s handwriting, her heart breaking, Lexi swears she will not rest until this brutal monster is caught. Will the diary help her find him before Paige is killed? Or is she walking into a trap designed just for her?

This is the first book of the series of Lexie Bennett. The story starts with the discovery of the bodies of two girls while one of their sisters is still missing. This seems to be a copycat case of when Lexie was a victim herself and she and her sister Amber escape while their sister couldn’t. Lexie knew it has to be the same abductor and was determined to save Paige before it was too late. This was fast paced and a page Turner. There were many suspects and so it was hard to pinpoint who is the real killer. There were some slow moments but overall, the author manage to keep the reader guessing till the end. The flashback scene of Lexie when kidnapped and the killers pov was interesting to read. Overall this book worth four stars. Many thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for ARC. The review is based on my honest opinion only