Thanks to Net Galley and Avon Books UK for an ARC of this book in exchange for a review.
DI Ed Ogbourne has arrived to her new position from the Met in London, following an indiscretion, to Canterbury in the middle of a big case. This is a promotion for her. A young girl is missing, it quickly comes to light that there was a similar case 4 years ago and an even older case 10;years previously. Ed is able to make herself part of her new team and they quickly surmise that it is the same man. Her job is not made easy as old police files are missing, school records are incorrect and now her new man is a suspect
The cycle of missing girls is slightly repetitive and I found it strange that the culprit was so exemplary in all other areas of his life.
I quite liked Ed even though she kept making decisions in her personal life that repeatedly put her career at risk.

The Taken Girls is the first book in what will probably become a new series by G D Sanders.

The underlying story was quite promising with an unusual villain however the main character was difficult to warm to. The story also seemed to drag a little bit in the middle before a satisfactory conclusion

The main star is a newly promoted DI who has had to leave the Met due to a poor decision in her personal life something which she repeats once in her new role and this is despite being totally focused and career driven. Also some of the police decisions did not just feel right.

Overall there is some promise & I would look to give the next book in the series a go

The Taken Girls is a novel with a truly odd villain. The story begins in 2010 when a teenage girl is abducted. Despite the best efforts of the police, the girl remains missing for over 30 days. Suddenly, without warning, the girl is returned, seemingly unharmed. For 10 years, the abductor remained silent and no more girls go missing. Then in present day, the Canterbury police are given a fresh challenge when a new teenage girl suddenly goes missing. The case falls to Edina Ogbourne. She has just relocated to Canterbury to take over as Detective Inspector. She must do her best to run her unit despite being the odd man out.

Despite the best efforts of Edina and her team, leads in the case of the missing teenager remain elusive. After about 2 weeks missing, the teenager is returned seemingly unharmed, and within days, another girl goes missing. It soon becomes apparent that the returned girls have come back fundamentally changed. The first taken teenager shows up at the police station pregnant. An exam reveals that the teenager is still a virgin. This raises a whole new set of questions about what kind of monster they are searching for. The race is now on to rescue the next missing teen before the abductor has a chance to inseminate her as well. The story is engaging and fast paced. This is a fresh version of a disturbed mind that I haven’t seen before. We see all sides of the story as we are privy to the inner thoughts of the lead detective, the teenage girl who is missing, and the abductor. A strong, fun read.

Having got herself in a bit of trouble at the Met, Edina (Ed) Ogbourne reluctantly accepts a new posting to Canterbury even if it does mean a promotion. However when she arrives she finds that her promotion is not signed & sealed & the detective she is replacing hasn't left yet!

She doesn't have much time to dwell on things as she is soon working on a rather strange case. A schoolgirl goes missing. When looking into previous similar cases it seems that after being missing for a few weeks the girls arrive back wearing the same clothes & in a least one case-pregnant!

There are a few men that have been associated with the local school since the first abduction. When yet another girl goes missing within weeks of the last Ed & her team race to rescue her as the previous victim had managed to bring back a clue that suggests the captor may not be just abducting girls but something worse.

I struggled a bit with Ed at first. Without seeming prudish I felt her romantic associations were somewhat rash, considering her position. However as I got to know her better I warmed towards her & am already looking forward to meeting her again.

Thanks to Netgalley & the publisher for letting me read & review this book.

Absolutely riverting book from beginning to end. When another girl goes missing newly recruited DI Edina Egborne has the job of finding her fast. Trying to put a past exploit behind her which was why she had been transferred to her new job she needs to prove herself to her fellow colleagues and her boss. Someone is taking girls, holding them for a few weeks and making them pregnant, The race is on before the next girl is released pregnant but can they find her in time. I would recommend anyone trying this book.

Fantastic. A real head spinning thriller without the blood and guts that go with some other books of this genre. A wwll thought out storyline which left me feeling emotive for all involved...including the perp! Hope to read more from this author

Was a interesting book . A man is taking young girls for weeks then returning them home but they seem to bee unharmed till these girls end up pregnant. These are all virgins. The police are scrambling to figure all this out when Ogburg is transferred to the team. She ends up being put in charge.
4th girl has been taken so they really need to work fast, 1 child was found to be born alive from this guy doing this to these girls as they figured out he had been doing it for over 10 years.
I would recommend this book.

Thank you to Avon books and netgalley for the opportunity to read this book. This book started out great, a real page turner. Half way through it kind of went down a bit for me. I thought it dragged on a bit too. It’s a very well written and thought out book. I enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone.

I read the synopsis for ‘The Taken Girls’ and I couldn’t wait to get my hands on a copy. I soon got hold of a copy and I started reading as soon as I could. Boy oh boy, ‘The Taken Girls’ is certainly a read and a half and I thoroughly enjoyed it but more about that in a bit.
I am not entirely sure what to make of Detective Inspector Edina Ogborne. She is a young and very ambitious police officer. For example, she wanted to make the rank of Detective Inspector by the age of 27. She seems to be an extremely talented and dedicated police officer but at times her people skills let her down. She realises that she has to work as part of a team but I think that she would actually rather work on her own. Ed is determined that she is going to prove herself to be a valuable asset to her new team. Ed had to leave the Metropolitan Police under a bit of a cloud and she resents leaving the Met because that is the force that she originally joined and that is the force she wants to remain a part of. Ed is very organised in her work life but the same cannot be said of her personal life. She seems to have inappropriate relationships with men, who couldn’t be more unsuitable for her if they tried. Ed doesn’t seem to have many, if any friends and in all honesty I can’t say that I am that surprised. She doesn’t exactly endear herself to people. Ed is desperate to make a good impression in her new team and to rubberstamp the promotion that she is supposed to have got.
I have to say that ‘The Taken Girls’ certainly starts in such a way that I won’t forget in a hurry. For me, the story hits the ground running and maintains the pace throughout. The author’s writing style certainly entices you into the book and it doesn’t take you long to become addicted to reading the book. That’s what happened to me at any rate. I found it practically impossible to put the book down and I was finding any excuse I could to get back to reading. I seemed to race through this book but because I was so focused on the case, the story and the characters I didn’t notice how quickly the time was passing. The characters are so realistically described that they seem incredibly life like as if they were stood in front of me. I have to say that the baddie in this book has some twisted ideas and his reasons for doing what he is doing are truly chilling. For me the baddie is not only bad, he is mad and very dangerous to know. I certainly wouldn’t want to be anywhere near him.
‘The Taken Girls’ is very well written and well plotted. I found it very hard to believe that this is the author’s debut novel, as the author writes so confidently and writes in a very polished fashion.
Reading ‘The Taken Girls’ was very much like being on a scary and unpredictable rollercoaster ride with twists and turns aplenty. There were also several unexpected moments that seemed to creep up on me and when they happened, left me feeling as though I had been punched in the gut knocking the stuffing out of me.
In short, I loved reading ‘The Taken Girls’ and I would definitely recommend it to other readers. I can’t wait to read G. D. Sanders comes up with next. Fortunately I don’t have too long to wait because his next book called ‘The Chosen Ones’ is due for release on 27th June 2019. The score on the Ginger Book Geek board is a very well deserved 5* out of 5*.

This book was definitely unique in the story line. I thought the author did a great job with building surprise and anticipation for the reader. I am looking forward to reading more from this author. Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to read this.

I loved this book. It was fast paced from the get go, suspenseful, had a unique story line and kept me guessing till the end. The characters were well thought out and easy to relate to. I look forward to reading more from this author!

Thank you to Avon Books and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this novel.
First class and a real page turner. I couldn't put it down and devoured it in a day. We are introduced to the character of D I Ed Ogborne ( a woman) who has transferred to Canterbury on promotion and her quest to find a 17 year old abducted girl and the perp who took her and 2 others over a period of time. I must admit I struggled at first to warm to Ed but then soon the character grew on me. I hope this is the first in a series of books to feature her and her team. I have no hesitation in recommending this book. Excellent read.

A great debut novel featuring DI Edina Ogbourne from Canterbury police force. Edina Ogbourne is new to Canterbury after being transferred from the Met and isn’t too popular with her colleagues and has a dark past that haunts her. One of her first high profile cases is investigating a missing teenager, who was abducted but later returns unharmed, but pregnant. Through the investigation they discover links with other abductions.
A good debut novel, interesting characters and intriguing plot.

I felt that some areas fell a bit flat and because somewhat tedious to read but overall a good read, 4 stars.

Missing teenagers and a race against the clock are DI Edina Ogbourne’s welcome party to her transferral to Canterbury – but can she stop the villain before it’s too late?

I am a bit unsure how to feel about this new police procedural series with main character DI Edina Ogbourne. On one hand it’s refreshing to have a police novel that doesn’t centre around a jaded, grizzled, older male detective with commitment issues who only has time and love for his job. On the other hand Ed is a little… well… impulsive and promiscuous. She makes some very stupid decisions with the men that she sleeps with which make her a little difficult to take seriously as a female central character in authority.

That aside, I enjoyed the plot of The Taken Girls, it changed perspective between villain, victim and the police well and was nicely paced. There were a few moments, especially earlier in the book where a flash-back was suddenly used but not with a good enough sign post that it was in fact a flash back which jarred a little. I did also think that the other police in Ed’s team were a little two dimensional and a bit weird. We started out the book with them supposedly hating her as her transfer to the unit meant they lost one of their own who had to move out to make way for her. As this is the start of a series, I expected the fight to regain respect and control of her team may take more than one book but it barely took more than a few chapters which was a little disappointing. They also felt a little unprofessional at times – a male cop repeatedly asking to sort through a hard drive of naked photos of underage women and getting disappointed when told no seemed strange to me.

Overall I’m not really sure how to take The Taken Girl’s central character of Ed but I enjoyed the start of this series and I look forward to seeing where the next books will take us. Thank you to NetGalley and Avon Books UK for a copy of the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This was a really enjoyable debut novel. We are introduced to DI Edina ‘Ed’ Ogborne. Shas been transferred to Canterbury after an affair with a senior officer. Her team don’t exactly welcome her with open arms as she is replacing another DI so she has to work at winning their respect. She is give the case to solve of an abducted schoolgirl with very few clues to work on. The girl turns up a few weeks later, unhurt, but then a few weeks later finds she is pregnant. Ed then realises that there have been similar cases in the past and then another girl disappears, so she has pressure put on her from her superiors to solve the case quickly. I found the plot was unique and complex, with plenty of twists and turns and interesting characters. I look forward tobook number two in the series.
Thanks to NetGalley and Avon Books for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book.

First book by this author and I really enjoyed it. DS Ogborne has been unceremoniously moved from the Met to Canterbury and promised a promotion. It takes her a while to gain the respect of her new team, but they are thrown straight into the case of a missing teenager.
The case has links to previous abductions but the girls are all returned unharmed, who is doing this and why?
I quickly warned to the characters in the book and hope to see more of Ed Ogborne and her team in future.
It wasn't quite as fast paced or gruesome as some thrillers I've read, but this is no bad thing and I actually worked out who'd dunnit which is unusual for me! I
will definitely look out for more by this author.

DS Ed Ogborne has been moved from The Met to Canterbury. She is awaiting her promotion to DI while she works a case where girls are being taken for only a short time and then returned unharmed. She has to work with the staff that resents her plus meet local people that don't tell her enough about themselves.
This is G.D. Sanders first novel in fiction. The writing is excellent with a story line that is clever. I look forward to reading other stories by this author. He has a very strong character with DI Ogborne and will make an excellent series.

The Taken Girls
12/25/18
Rating:3
Netgalley
Someone is watching them…

When a missing teenage girl reappears unharmed but pregnant, the case falls to DI Edina Ogborne, the newest recruit of Canterbury Police. But Ed’s already got her hands full with a team who don’t want her, an ex who won’t quit, and terrible guilt over a secret from her past.

As Ed investigates the case, she discovers Canterbury has seen this crime not once, but several times before. And when Ed and her detectives encounter missing historic police files, falsified school records, and Ed’s new lover as a prime suspect, it becomes clear that the system has been corrupted.

Can Ed find the kidnapper behind these depraved crimes before he strikes again? Or has time already run out?

My Thoughts
Rating :3
Slow going into the story , kept bring up parts of Ed's past we already know about, I mean come on you already told us a some of her past that happened when she was a teenager ,you didn't have to keep remind us it, and she kept making stupid decision that could and would and have affected her job, a job she wants and loves . Would have finished it sooner but there was times I just wanted to put it down.Glad I didn't because even though it's slow , it does pick up a little bit not that much , and other thing I can't sstand was how the author also kept bring up the past of one of Ed's teammates, and once again we didn't need to be reminded of . So I the question I'm asking myself right now is this a new series and if it is I want to go on with it, and it's a maybe for right now. With that said I would like to thank Netgalley for letting mme read and review it in change for my honest opinion.

Thanks to NetGalley for providing me with early access to this, the first in a new collection.
Our main character has been shuffled off to Coventry in a sideways move after dallying with the wrong man in the Met. Coming from this disadvantaged position, Ed is determined to make her first case go well.
The case focuses on the abduction of young girls. They are kept for a period of days and then returned, unharmed but pregnant. Although we pick up events with the third such abduction, nobody seems to have made the connection. Naturally, Ed and her new team do and the focus is on them trying to discover which of their four suspects it is before the fourth young girl becomes the next victim.
This felt disjointed in parts, and the attempt to get into the mindset of the killer meant we knew more than our narrator and this confused matters somewhat.

The Taken Girls G.D Sanders

I have to say that this book has really torn me.

The story is brilliant, the crime is committed in a way, and for reasons, I have never come across before.

Ten years apart two girls are abducted and held captive by someone for weeks. Then mysteriously they are found apparently unharmed their clothes cleaned and pressed, and saying there captive had treated them well.

When newly promoted DI Edina (Ed) Ogborne is transferred from the Met, under a cloud, to Canterbury she struggles to integrate into the small CID team.

The most recent disappearance is her first case and as she struggles with the case, she also struggles with her team and her social life.

With the investigation going nowhere it’s a frustration when a local journalist gets a break in the case and publishes the story without conferring with the Police, another “X” in the column for Jo from her new boss.

The investigations continue and at least one other girl is taken, but why, and why return them unharmed and in apparent good health.

Canterbury is a small City and everybody seems to know everybody and there business. The investigation has a small town feeling in a small City.

To me this is where there is a problem with the story. There is never any urgency in the investigation. A series of kidnappings of teenage girls and there’s just a team of 4 looking at it almost on a 9-5 basis. With the SIO taking time out to go for meals and fraternise with the locals, something she may come to regret

As much as I liked the story there were too many times when I thought “no, that would never happen”, or “stop faffing about and get on with the investigation”

There are some peripheral characters that take the reader down dead ends, and as entertaining as they are, I struggled to understand why some things happen in the story. Unless this is the building block for a series and the characters are going to reappear.

Would I read them if they did?

Yes, as frustrating as it was in places I actually really enjoyed the story.

Pages: 355
Publisher: Avon
Available now.