A review by karteabooks
Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter

4.0

 I was so lucky to be part of a Tandem Readalong for this book and met some lovely bookish people whilst reading this. Unbelievably, this is my first Karin Slaughter book… 

In Girl, Forgotten Andrea is completing her training to become a US Marshal. Her first job sees her assigned to be part of the team looking after a Judge in her biological father’s hometown. Whilst she is there she tries to discover if her father was responsible for the murder of the judge’s teenage daughter in the early ‘80s. 

This is a dual timeline book; I liked the before / after the original crime. It was great to be able to unpick Emily, the murdered girl, and try to understand how hurtful and painful it was for her to be pushed out and abandoned by both her friends and her family.
 
 A great story, which I have now discovered is part of a series, so I’m off to read the first part soon. 

Thank you to @tandemcollectiveuk, @harperfiction and the author for a gifted copy of this book