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  • Missing by Kelley Armstrong
  • Karen Coats
Armstrong, Kelley Missing. Crown, 2017 [384p]
Library ed. ISBN 978-0-399-55033-1 $20.99
Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-399-55032-4 $17.99
E-book ed. ISBN 978-0-399-55034-8 $10.99
Reviewed from galleys         R Gr. 9-12

Winter Crane has a plan: she's going to leave Reeve's End, Kentucky, after graduation and never look back. Meanwhile, though, she has to survive her abusive father and feed herself, a process that often involves hunting, trapping, and hiding out in a cabin in the woods near her trailer. It's in the woods that she finds and rescues Lennon, a boy treed by a pack of feral dogs, and she learns that he is looking for her friend Edie, who has gone missing. When Lennon also disappears and his broody brother, Jude, shows up, Winter begins to wonder about the large number of teens who have left Reeve's End never to be heard from again. It soon becomes clear that Winter is being stalked while Jude knows more than he's saying. As Winter and Jude try to find Lennon and Edie, they also circle warily around each other, and the secrets they reveal prove key to the mystery as well as to a developing relationship. Between real clues and clever red herrings that take advantage of a fully realized setting and a surprising cast of characters, this thriller crescendos to a nail-biting climax that draws equally on the strength and skills of Winter and Jude. In fact, it is the psychological resonance and complexity of several of the characters, and not just the insane motivations and unpredictable identity of the killer, that give this crime drama its considerable appeal.

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