The Girls Who Disappeared- Book Review

Three missing girls. A twenty year mystery. A woman on the verge of discovering the truth . . .

In a rural Wilshire town lies The Devil’s Corridor. A road which has witnessed eerie happenings from unexplained deaths to the sounds of a child crying at night.

But nothing more puzzling than the Olivia Rutherford case. Four girls drove home but after their car crashed only Olivia was found.

Twenty years later, journalist Jenna Halliday is covering the case. But the locals aren’t happy with this stranger’s arrival. Least of all Olivia.

Jenna soon starts receiving threatening notes and it is clear someone wants her out of this town before she suffers a dark fate . . .

The Girls Who Disappeared talks about a mysterious event that happened in 1998 and a journalist coming to this small town twenty years later to do a podcast about this event.

Jenna is a podcaster who takes this opportunity to do a podcast about three girls who disappeared mysteriously in 1998 in an accident. The only survivor was Olivia who is living with a survivor’s guilt. Jenna knew that there are some supernatural rumors spreading in this small town and that the girls’ disappearance may have been related to that supernatural rumor as there is no trace of their disappearances. However someone doesn’t want Jenna to investigate into their cases.

This was actually a fast paced thriller. Claire Douglas knows how to capture the reader’s attention and make the reader feel like the part of the story. I also like the supernatural element in the backdrop of the story. The story is told in the POVs of Jenna and Olivia and there is a small backdrop of a group of friends holidaying in Thailand. You will only realize the connection between the background story that is happening in Thailand towards the end of the book–so there is suspense in the story.

Anyway, this was an intriguing and fast paced thriller which I enjoyed it very much–worth four and a half stars.