In the present, Andrea looks into Emily's clique of 'friends', Clay, Blake, Nardo and Ricky, all revoltingly nasty pieces of work. Probably because we hear about crooked politicians every day on the news, so nothing shocks me anymore. Slaughter is the founder of the Save the Libraries project--a nonprofit organization established to support libraries and library programming. The narrative alternates between two timeframes - the present day and the time around the murder of Emily Vaughn in 1982.

Will Andrea be able to discover who killed Emily all those years ago, or will the killer silence Andrea first…?Well written as you get to expect with the author but for me personally just didn’t grip me as her books normally do. Girl, Forgotten’ follows Andrea Oliver from ‘Pieces of Her’, just grown up and newly graduated from the United States Marshall Services (USMS). Before I get into it, just a heads up this is a sequel to Pieces Of Her, and not only does it feature characters from the first book, it’s also very similar in vibes and overall tone (more slow burn mystery than outright thrilling thriller), but it can still be read as a standalone! And finding proof that the one person in Emily’s life at that time who was capable of murder did, in fact, commit the felony would make a number of high powered people very happy indeed.

In Pieces of Her Andrea was shocked when she discovered that her whole life had been a sham and that her mother, Laura, wasn’t all that she had said she was. I found the narrator’s voice very boring at normal speed (it was sooo slow in some parts, perfect for putting me to sleep), so I had to speed up to match my reading. The author is brilliant at switching between the two at just the right moment to leave you wanting more from both characters and timelines.The sinister factor starts early and builds quickly as the extensive complex investigation gives way to deadly menace and dangerous secrets in this twist-a-minute novel. With the Judge succumbing to cancer, her husband severely disabled by a stroke, and Andrea detailed to guard them after the Judge received death threats, it seems like there's no better time to find out if her own father, Clay Morrow, is guilty of murdering Emily. Slaughter relies less on real surprises to hold the attention than she does on page-turning qualities, which this effortlessly accomplished thriller has in keen-edged spadefuls.