Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter is a contemporary crime suspense that drew me in from the start.
It is told in two time periods – present day and 1981. The action heats up as the roots of present day crimes lie firmly in the past.
A group of friends from 1981 all protest their innocence – but someone must be lying. Someone knows the truth of what happened on that fatal night. What will it take for the truth to come out?
Secrets and lies have been circulating since 1981 after terrible crimes were committed. Someone is trying to bury the past. And someone is determined to uncover the truth so that history will never repeat itself.
The plotline is complex and well executed. The reader is kept on their toes as the action alternates in time.
All the characters were well drawn provoking some extremely strong responses from the reader. The character of Emily really lodged in my heart. She appeared weak to her peers but was in fact strong, tenacious and kind.
I thoroughly enjoyed Girl, Forgotten. It was an epic and compelling read that would make a fabulous Netflix series.
I received a free copy via Net Galley. A favourable review was not required. All opinions are my own.

Thanks to Netgalley and Harper Collins UK for the ARC of this book.
A second book which features Andrea Oliver and to a lesser extent her mother Laura etc. The book takes a reasonable pace with the story although the chapters are just too long for comfortable reading. Love Andrea now being a US Marshall and her partner Bible is a great character that I can see going further with her hopefully. You meet some horrible people in this book. The “ clique” is just what you would expect but Ricky and Largo in particular are very cruel people. By the ending it looks perfectly set for a book three at least and I look forward to it.

Thank you to Netgalley for letting me read this early copy. Karin Slaughter is one of my favourite authors. I have read most of her books and enjoyed them all. Girl Forgotten will not disappoint, I loved the story and definitely recommend for new and old fans.

Girl, Forgotten ny Karin Slaughter is a worthy sequel to Pieces of her.

It was good to see how Andrea had progressed since the revelations of her parentage and the continuing complicated relationship with her mother.

I enjoyed watching Andrea progress and make mistakes as a US Marshall. As ever, Karin Slaughter has created a realistic character who's flawed and trying to do their best. I love the humour between characters, too.

I particularly liked the background story of Emily and the clique she belonged to. The past shapes us and Emily's murder is still having repercussions since it happened in the '80s.

Nothing is off limits in this novel: abuse, rape, drugs, abuse, among the list.

The ending hints at another book to come. I certainly hope so as there's so much scope for Andrea to progress as a protagonist and some unanswered questions.

An enjoyable read.

My thanks to the Author publisher's and NetGalley for providing me with a Kindle version of this book to read and honestly review.
Clever descriptive intelligent well written with quality characters throughout this is a thoroughly entertaining story. Our heroine is a newly graduated U.S. Marshall fast tracked to protection duty for a Judge receiving death threats, but also secretly tasked with investigating a cold case of murder, linked to the Judge and a Cult leader and murderer up for parole. Through flashbacks we learn of past events and there affects on the present. Atmospheric and tense at times with surprising twists, at others funny and sad, but interesting from first to last page.
Completely recommended.

This book is a good crime thriller with likeable characters. I felt i didn't really get into it like i hoped I would and that was because i found out this was the second book and i was missing some of the back ground. I also found the while I liked the fast paced action, it seemed unbelievable and officer who was pregnant would be running around like she did. I'm going to read the first book in this series and come back and re review this book.

In Pieces of Her Andrea Oliver discovered the identity of her psychopathic father Clayton Morrow (aka Nick Harp) and uncovered her mother’s long held secrets about him. Having been in jail for the last thirty three years he now has a chance of parole at his next hearing, unless he can be charged with further crimes.

Andrea is now a newly graduated US Marshall and has been assigned to a team protecting a federal judge who has been receiving death threats. The judge, Esther Vaughan, is currently at her summer home in Longbill Beach in Delaware, the same town where Andrea’s father grew up. Forty years ago the judge’s daughter Emily was murdered. She was part of a high school friendship clique that including Clayton Morrow. The group had been close until a drug fuelled party lead to Emily becoming pregnant without knowing how that had happened. Clayton had always been one of the main suspects as both the father of her baby and also her killer. Now Andrea has been tasked with taking another look at the events surrounding Emily’s death to determine if enough evidence can be found to charge him.

It was good to meet Andrea again now that she has been able to move on with her life. She is more confident and resilient than when she was still living above her mother’s garage, not sure what to do with her life. Andrea has been partnered with an older Marshall, Leonard ‘Catfish’ Bible who delights in educating his new green partner. In addition to guarding the judge, they also become suspicious about a local fava bean farm and the female ‘volunteers’ working there. Dual time lines allow us to not only follow the current day events but also go back to 1982 and be introduced to Emily and her clique, none of whom turn out to be very nice people at a time when Emily needed a friend. Although this means that the plot develops slowly while background is filled in, events soon accelerate as long simmering tensions rise to the surface and merge together to make a gripping and compulsive thriller.

Emily Vaughan is murdered in 1982 and the murder remains unsolved.
Andrea Oliver graduates as a US Marshal and agrees to babysit a conservative judge who is receiving death threats. There’s a link however between the judge, the murder victim and the father of Andrea.
Karin Slaughter is a master story teller and this is a gripping tale with suspense, humour and well written characters. A great read.

Thanks to NetGalley and HarperCollins UK for the opportunity to preview this highly recommended read.

Full review to come on Goodreads and Amazon. Thank you to the publisher, author, and NetGalley for a review copy.

It’s two years on from the events of Pieces of Her which turned the life of Andrea “Andy” Oliver upside down and forced her mother, Laura, to reveal the fact that her biological father is a man convicted of conspiring to commit domestic terrorism. Now at thirty-three and within hours of graduating as a US Marshal, a decision partly motivated by how helpless her first encounter with her violent father left her feeling, she finds herself juggling both an official and unofficial assignment.  The first is protecting federal judge and Reagan appointee, Esther Vaughn, the recipient of a series of death threats, and the second and more personal one is looking into the unsolved murder of the judge’s pregnant eighteen-year-old daughter in 1982. At the time the prime suspect for the murder was Clayton Morrow, a man with a magnetic personality who went on to adopt the name Nick Harp and father Andy, and proof of his guilt would be enough to quash any chance of parole at his upcoming hearing in six months time. Travelling to the small town of Longbill Beach, where the murder took place forty years ago and the eighty-one-year-old judge still lives, Andy finds several key players are still in residence and her partner is experienced, wise-cracking Marshal Leonard “Catfish” Bible whose wife is also the duo’s boss! Thankfully Andy’s mother, Laura Oliver, is restricted to a few cameo appearances, allowing Andy to escape from her shadow and also cut out the tiresome bickering that marks their mother-daughter relationship.

Girl, Forgotten is a high-stakes contemporary mystery underpinned by a shocking act of sexual violence forty years earlier in a small, conservative town only too willing to turn a blind eye. The novel is comprised of a dual narrative separated by forty years with murder victim Emily Vaughn trying to discover which of her ‘friends’ raped her back in 1982 only to then be ostracised by the residents of her conservative town when she speaks out. As the novel moves back and forth between Emily’s ‘Columbo Investigation’ and Andy and Catfish ruffling feathers when they arrive in town, a real sense of menace pervades. Both Emily and Andy’s narrative feature several key characters in common and it is fascinating to see how fundamentally unchanged they are despite living in very different times. I did feel that Emily’s narrative was somewhat repetitive and needed a tad more pace to really keep me tearing through the pages with the suicide at the cultish fava bean farm feeling like a diversion, albeit an interesting one. The novel is low on actual violence but misogyny and verbal cruelty feature heavily and I was invested in every one of Emily’s bullies getting their dues. Thanks to a dodgy bit of misdirection I didn’t seriously start to consider anyone besides Nick Harp as the perpetrator until nearly halfway through by which time it has become abundantly clear that his fellow members of ‘the clique’ are equally odious. Slaughter, however, pulls out a couple of corking revelations which ramp up the tension into the close and made me more forgiving of said misdirection! Overall a well-plotted novel that leaves the door wide open for a return from Andy.

Karin Slaughter's Girl, Forgotten is an intricate psychological jigsaw puzzle readers must put together piece by piece as they explore the plot of the book. Will you be able to solve it?

Synopsis:
US Marshall Andrea Oliver is tasked with protecting a female judge facing death threats in a seaside town. In reality Andrea is in the small town to solve the murder of Emily a young teen who was killed forty years ago. What can Andrea do to unravel this cold case and find the killer before someone else is harmed?

Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter is a police procedural that is memorable, believable and a world unto itself. It is the sequel to Pieces of Her, a bestselling book that became a Netflix series. The title "Queen of Thrillers" as named by Slaughter fans is well earned. Karin Slaughter's main characters each have a unique voice that stays with the reader for a long time. Those who enjoy her books know that every sentence reveals clues. Fans of Girl, Forgotten are left with a dizzying sense of emotion as they look forward to a sequel.

Girl, Forgotten is available on June 23rd. (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Thank you, NetGalley and Harper Collins UK, Harper Fiction, for allowing me to review this thrilling book by the sensational Karin Slaughter.

would like to thank netgalley and the publisher for letting me read this brilliant book

a newly qualified us marshall andrea oliver aka andy for short, has been tasked with protecting a judge and also investigating on the quiet into the murder of pregnant emily vaughn which happened 40 years ago....

oh my word what a tangle of lies and deceit to investigate...

but what a book....couldnt put it down at all and the shocks kept coming even right up to the last page

brilliant just brilliant...

cant wait for the next book in this amazing series

This is an excellent book however it is the 2nd book in a series & it really needs the details from the first book. I read & enjoyed it & just tried to fill in the gaps.

Girl, Forgotten is the sequel to Pieces of Her, and there are definite parallels between the two excellent novels.

Andrea Oliver is now a US Marshall. Her first case takes her to a small seaside town where a young girl was murdered forty years before. On duty to protect a federal judge, her true desire is to solve the cold case - which has a link to her own family.

The complex case is told in twin timelines, with the lead up to the murder told from the viewpoint of the victim, Emily Vaughn. In the present time, some of the suspects, Emily's school friends, still live locally. Clues emerge in past and present and the answers are not revealed until the very end.

Girl, Forgotten is vivid and compelling, touching and sad. The characters' small town lives are revealed and the web of lies eventually unfurls, with Andy Oliver at the centre of the action. A great read.

I really enjoyed this book by Karin Slaughter and couldn’t put it down. It was a great follow up to Pieces of Her. I didn’t really enjoy that one, but this one kept my attention. Highly recommend if you are a Slaughter fan like me.

Andi Oliver (now Andrea) lead in "Pieces of Her, returns in this thriller. She has just passed out as a US Marshal and her uncle Jasper Queller turns up to ask her to return to her serial killer father's home town to investigate a 40 year old murder

The victim gave birth to a baby girl conceived through rape and the father could be one of several of her friends including Andrea's father

Small town secrets abound in this thriller!

Thank you to Netgalley and Harper Collins Publishing for the chance to review this book.

Although it works perfectly as a standalone, Girl, Forgotten picks up a couple of years after Pieces of Her. Andrea Oliver has just finished her US Marshalls training and her first assignment is security for a judge in a small seaside town, but Andrea is also working her own case. Forty years ago 17-year-old Emily Vaughn was raped and, heavily pregnant, bludgeoned to death. The father of her unborn child and her presumed murderer was never identified, but the same faces are still hanging around town and Andrea must probe their shady histories and their even darker present activities to achieve some sort of resolution for Emily. Karin Slaughter never disappoints and she is on fine form here. The characters are believable, the plot is efficient and it’s a page-turner.

A new US field marshal, Andrea, is deployed to solve a forty year old murder mystery.
The victim was a young pregnant girl, Emily. Andrea is immersed in the present day world of the people who knew her best - her family and the ‘clique’ of friends around her.
I didn’t realise this novel was a sequel and it is good as a stand-alone one.
Having said that I did find the characters a bit one-dimensional and sometimes a little hard to differentiate.
But that didn’t detract from the enjoyment of this and the immersion I felt in Emily’s world.
Karin Slaughter always takes her time up tell a tale - you’ll either like this or find it a bit slow. I like the build-up and pacing.
Recommended: an engrossing and touching thriller.

I hadn't even realised there was a sequel to Pieces of Me so this was a wonderful surprise. The first book has to be read to get the follow-up and it's worth it as it's brilliant. The story picks up two years later with Andy becoming a US Marshal and immediately getting sent on an assignment that also has links to her father's past. It's a great read and hard to not try to finish in one sitting.

Girl Forgotten by Karin Slaughter
I give this book 4.25 stars

A girl with a secret…
1982. Emily Vaughn gets ready for prom night,but she has a secret. And by the end of the evening, she will be dead.
A murder that remains a mystery…
40 years later,Her friends closed ranks, her family retreated inwards, the community moved on.
One final chance to uncover a killer…
Andrea Oliver arrives in town she is here to find justice for Emily – and to uncover the truth before the killer decides to silence her too……

This book focuses on Andrea from Pieces of Her, it isn’t necessary to have read the other book.
Who killed Emily Vaughn…..
This intriguing detective crime thriller is told between 1982 and present day and narrated by Andrea and Emily.The author is brilliant at switching between the two at just the right moment to leave you wanting more from both characters and timelines.We delve into a current and connected cold case with plenty of mystery,tension and secrets to keep the reader totally engrossed and trying to discover who out of several suspects is involved and why.l loved the way the plot intricately weaves together there’s far more to this story than you can imagine.,The pacing is perfect and the subject matter is dark.
With thanks to Netgalley,Karin Slaughter and HarperCollins UK, HarperFiction for my chance to read and review this book