Large print book
Before she disappeared : a novel / Lisa Gardner.
"Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will--searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking ... A new case brings her to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough reputation. She is searching for Angelique Badeau, a Haitian teenager who vanished from her high school months earlier. Resistance from the Boston PD and the victim's wary family tells Frankie she's on her own--and she soon learns she's asking questions someone doesn't want answered. But Frankie will stop at nothing to discover the truth, even if it means the next person to go missing could be her."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593395639 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 482 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First large print edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Random House Large Print [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
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| Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) Mystery fiction. |
Available copies
- 6 of 9 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Castlegar Public Library. (Show)
Holds
- 0 current holds with 9 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castlegar Public Library | LP MYS GAR (Text) | 35146002214559 | Large Print Mystery | Volume hold | Available | - |
| 100 Mile House Branch | LP GAR (Text) | 33923006318830 | Large Print | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-05-14 |
| Creston Public Library | LARGE FIC GAR (Text)
Acquisition Type: New |
35140100095390 | Large Print Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Grand Forks | LP FIC GAR (Text) | 35142002714250 | Large Print | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-05-08 |
| Houston Public Library | F GAR (Text) | 35150001756677 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Kitimat Public Library | LP Gar (Text) | 32665002262188 | Large Print | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-05-02 |
| Quesnel Branch | LP GAR (Text) | 33923006318848 | Large Print | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Sechelt Public Library | LP F GARD (Text) | 33260100075028 | Large Print | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Williams Lake Branch | LP GAR (Text) | 33923006318855 | Large Print | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2020 December #2
*Starred Review* Vagabond investigator Frankie Elkin (think Reacher with the gift of gab over guns) lands in Boston's rough-edged Mattapan neighborhood on a mission to find Angelique Badeau, a teenager who disappeared 11 months earlier. In a blink, Frankie has secured a bartending job at the neighborhood drinking hole, found an AA meeting, and pissed off the cops investigating Angelique's disappearance. (They're not buying her investigation as public service, and she's not enlightening them about her need for redemption.) Frankie is sure that Angelique isn't a runaway: she's too close to her Aunt Guerline and her brother, Emmanuel. So Frankie pokes the soft spots in Angelique's inner circle and finds that Angelique grew secretive after participating in a rec-center program where she befriended Livia Samdi, another missing Mattapan teen, whose gangland connections up the stakes. When Emmanuel reports that Angelique has left him a coded plea for help online, Frankie's baggage-laden obsession pushes her straight into Mattapan's underworld. It's hard to tag just one stand-out element here, between the multidimensional portrayal of Mattapan's Haitian expat community, Frankie's humanizing demons and straightforward investigative technique, and a page-turning plot with all its ends tucked in unpredictably tight. Tense and immersive, Gardner's latest (hopefully a series starter) is a sure bet both for readers drawn to gritty gumshoe fiction and for the growing legion of true-crime podcast fans. Copyright 2020 Booklist Reviews.
