From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner comes a harrowing new thriller: Frankie Elkin is an expert at finding the missing persons that the rest of the world has forgotten, but even she couldn’t have anticipated this latest request—to locate the long-lost sister of a female serial killer facing execution in three weeks’ time.

Frankie Elkin is an expert at finding the missing persons that the rest of the world has forgotten, but even she couldn’t have anticipated this latest request—to locate the long-lost sister of a female serial killer facing execution in three weeks’ time.

She has called herself “death,” but people called her the devil. 

The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. Despite the media’s chronicling of her tragic circumstances—the childhood spent with a violent father—no one could find sympathy for “the Beautiful Butcher” who had led eighteen men home from bars before viciously slitting their throats.
Now, with only twenty-one days left to live, Pierson has finally received a lead on the whereabouts of the sister who was kidnapped over a decade ago, and she needs Frankie’s help to find her. The Beautiful Butcher’s offer:

When was the last time your search ended with finding the living? 

Unable to resist the chance for a rescue, Frankie takes on Pierson’s request. Twelve years ago, five-year-old Leilani went missing in Hawaii. The main suspect? Pierson’s tech mogul ex-boyfriend, Sanders MacManus. Now, on a remote island in the middle of the Pacific—the site of MacManus’s latest vanity project—fresh evidence has appeared. In order to learn the truth and possibly save a young woman’s life, Frankie must go undercover at the isolated base camp. Her challenge: A dozen strangers. Countless dangerous secrets. Zero means of calling for help. And then the storm rolls in…

Series:

Frankie Elkin

Book 3

Can be read as a standalone

Book Type:

Thriller

Review: Still See You Everywhere

Hired by a serial killer on death row, missing persons expert Frankie Elkin tracks down a kidnapped woman on a remote Hawaiian atoll.

Amateur investigator Frankie Elkin receives an unusual request from a notorious death row inmate. With twenty-one days left to live, Kaylee Pierson—known as the ‘Beautiful Butcher’—appeals to Frankie for help. Twelve years prior, Kaylee’s sister went missing in Hawaii. Kaylee suspects she was kidnapped by her tech mogul ex-boyfriend, Sanders MacManus, who is building a resort in a remote island. Imprisoned for brutally slitting the throats of eighteen men, Kaylee’s last wish is to free her sister.

With the inescapable allure of a rescue, Frankie takes the job and flies to the Pacific in search of the young woman. There, Frankie finds a crew of strangers—nomadic outsiders with many a secret to hide. Undercover and with a complicated past of her own, Frankie fits right in. Her questions lead to more questions than answers, however, the more she pieces together information about MacManus and Leilani. There seems to be a lot more at play on this isolated island, and before too long, she realizes they’re all in danger. Worse yet, there’s nowhere to run when danger meets them head on.

As a die-hard Lisa Gardner and Frankie Elkin fan, I was delighted to get into a story touting such a compelling premise. In some ways, however, the narrative felt like a departure from what we usually see from Gardner, yet it still delivered the excitement and twists we love and expect. Perhaps what seemed different was that the first half of the novel felt mired down by too much detail on the atoll, so it took a beat to really get moving. But it’s worth every moment with continuous high stakes and stellar writing.

Part cat-and-mouse, part locked-room mystery, this is an exciting, action-packed thriller you shouldn’t miss.