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Girl 11 by Amy Suiter Clarke
4.0

Elle, a social worker turned full-time true-crime podcaster, has one goal: to solve cold cases of missing and abducted children. After four successful seasons solving cases in Minnesota's Twin Cities, Elle decides it's time focus on her biggest case yet, The Countdown Killer. Twenty years ago, The Countdown Killer was terrorizing the community by kidnapping and murdering three girls over seven days, with each girl a year younger than the last. Then, when his last victim escapes, the pattern and the murders, abruptly stop. When Elle follows a lead on her latest season about The Countdown Killer, girls suddenly start disappearing again and the only connection is her.

This book was amazingly plot-twisty. I enjoyed having the podcast transcripts throughout the story so we could hear what "listeners" of the podcast knew. The urgency that Elle gives off also made me want to keep reading until I knew how it ended. My biggest complaint is that there are parts where it feels like I was reading a sequel to a book (since Elle has previous seasons of her podcast) but that only made me question if I was missing a book to read.