Girl Hidden/Girl Missing (Detective Kaitlyn Carr .5 and 1) by Kate Gable-reviews

GIRL HIDDEN
(Detective Kaitlyn Carr .5)
by Kate Gable
Genre: adult, contemporary, murder, mystery, suspense

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date May 26, 2021

Don’t run after me…

A family is found dead in their home. The only survivor is the teenage daughter who managed to escape the burning house.

Who killed them? And why? Detective Kaitlyn Carr has to bring their killer to justice.

A year before her disappearance, Violet, Kaitlyn’s sister, comes to stay with her after a bad fight with their mom. She can’t stand living at home as much as Kaitlyn once did and wants to move in with her.

But Kaitlyn was just promoted to detective and her hours are erratic and long. She’s never home and she can’t take care of a teenager. Or maybe she can?

As she gets closer and closer to finding out who killed the Hendrel family, her own family reaches a breaking point.

What happens when her sister asks her to do the impossible? What happens when she can’t say no?

What happens when the dysfunction of her own family threatens to blow up her face and let the killer off for good?

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REVIEW: GIRL HIDDEN is the introductory novella in Kate Gable’s contemporary, adult DETECTIVE KAITLYN CARR suspense thriller focusing of LAPD Detective, thirty-something Kaitlyn Carr.

Told from first person perspective (Kaitlyn Carr) GIRL HIDDEN follows Detective Kaitlyn Carr as she and her partner Thomas Abrams of the LAPD, are called in to investigate the murder of four members of a local family. Interviewing neighbors, friends, co-workers and the lone surviving member of the family, Kaitlyn and Thomas begin to see a pattern, a pattern that implodes when the truth is revealed.

Meanwhile, Kaitlyn’s twelve year old sister Violet has turned up at our heroine’s house having fought with their mother, a woman possibly struggling with long term depression. Violet wants to attend a private art school but her mother has refused to allow her pre-teen daughter to dictate her future.

GIRL HIDDEN is an intriguing and suspenseful story of murder, mystery, family, tragedy and revenge. Kate Gable pulls the reader into a fast paced story that introduces Detective Kaitlyn Carr, as she navigates the world of murder and crime.

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GIRL MISSING
Detective Kaitlyn Carr #1
by Kate Gable
Genre: adult, contemporary, murder, mystery, suspense

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Release Date: June 7, 2021

ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date June 7, 2021.

Don’t lie to me…

A young girl from a wealthy family is found hanging from a tree in a secluded canyon.

What was she doing there in the middle of the night? How did she get there? Who did this to her? Detective Kaitlyn Carr is determined to find out and bring the killer to justice.

But when her thirteen-year-old sister vanishes on her way back from a friend’s house, Kaitlyn must split her time and confront demons from her own past in order to bring her sister home.

The small mountain town of Big Bear Lake is only three hours away but a world away from her life in Los Angeles. It’s the place she grew up and the place that’s plagued her with lies, death and secrets.

As Kaitlyn digs deeper into both cases, she finds out that appearances are misleading and few things are what they seem.

A murderer is lurking in the shadows and the more of the mystery that Kaitlyn unspools the closer she gets to danger herself.

Can Kaitlyn find the killer and solve the mystery of her sister’s disappearance before it’s too late?

What happens when someone else is taken?

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REVIEW: GIRL MISSING is the first instalment in Kate Gable’s contemporary, adult DETECTIVE KAITLYN CARR murder/mystery/suspense series focusing on LAPD Detective Kaitlyn Carr.

NOTE: There is a prequel novella GIRL HIDDEN that introduces some of the characters and players in the series. GIRL MISSING advances the series approximately one year.

Told from first person perspective (Kaitlyn) GIRL MISSING follows two pathways as LAPD Detective Kaitlyn Carr gets a frantic call from her mother that Kaitlyn’s thirteen year old sister Violet is missing. Although Big Bear Lake is out of Kaitlyn’s jurisdiction, our heroine begins an investigation of her own that pushes the buttons of some well connected people. Meanwhile, back in LA, Kaitlyn is called to investigate the murder of a young girl found hanging from a neighborhood tree but the investigation goes nowhere fast until a visit to the family home reveals some disturbing news about the recently deceased.

GIRL MISSING is another fast paced, character driven and tragic story of mental illness, the power of social media, family, secrets, lies and loss. The premise is dramatic, sensitive and intense; the characters are energetic and emotional. We are introduced to FBI Agent Luke Galvinson, and the return of Kaitlyn’s now ex Thomas Abrams-there is a story regarding Thomas that has yet to be revealed.

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Reviews by Sandy