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2000s: Two girls go to a party. Only one returns alive
Their Last Daughters
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Toni, the surviving teenager, is found in a delirious state wandering the muddy fields of the fens. She has been drugged and it’s uncertain whether she’ll survive. She says she saw her friend Emily being dragged away from the party. But no one knows who Emily is or even if she’s still alive . . .
Meanwhile the drowned body of another girl has been found on an isolated beach.
Does this strange event have any link to the shocking disappearance of a little girl nearly a decade ago, a crime which was never solved?
Travel Guide
Dawnsmere Beach is fictional but more than conjures up the remote fenlands:
“It would have been generous to call it a beach, Dawnsmere was a bleak spot, a narrow strip of sand and dunes sandwiched between the wild marsh and the cold uninviting waters of the Wash. But even so, it had a strange beauty, even if that beauty was lonely and austere”
Set around the Lincolnshire fens DI Jackson and DS Evans are heading an investigation into the missing daughter of one of their own. When the body of Shauna Kelly washes up on the beach it is the outcome they dreaded. When another girl turns up wandering in the fens with signs of being drugged and going on about her friend Emily being taken they begin to think these cases are linked. To add to their already increasing workload they are also assigned a cold case of a missing girl by a neighbouring police force. Are these cases linked despite being 10 years apart??
Joy Ellis weaves a story that takes you to underground drinking parties frequented by underage revellers and a good hunting ground for the person abducting the victims. You are also drawn in to old tales of the area that have a bearing on the case and its eventual outcome.
Booktrailer Review
I have to say I loved this book although due to the subject matter I do feel slightly odd using the word loved. It was not fast paced but considering the subject it was dealing with then slow and steady seemed to suit it
There is so much more I could say about this book but if I did I would worry that I would spoil it for other readers by giving things away.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Their Lost Daughters
Author/Guide: Joy Ellis Destination: Lincolnshire Departure Time: 2000s
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