Girls Like Us
The instant New York Times bestseller, for the first time in mass market: Worlds collide when an FBI agent investigates a string of grisly murders on Long Island and faces the impossible question: What happens when the primary suspect is your father?
FBI agent Nell Flynn hasn't been home in ten years. Nell and her father, Homicide Detective Martin Flynn, have never had much of a relationship. And Suffolk County will always be awash in memories of her mother, Marisol, who was murdered when Nell was just seven.
When Martin dies in a motorcycle accident, Nell returns to the house where she grew up so that she can spread her father's ashes and close his estate. At the behest of her father's partner, Detective Lee Davis, Nell becomes involved in an investigation into the murders of two young women in Suffolk County. The further Nell digs, the more likely it seems to her that her father should be the primse suspect--and that his friends on the police force are covering his tracks.
Plagued by doubts about her mother's murder, and her own role in exonerating her father in that case, Nell can't help but ask questions about who killed the two women and why. But she may not like the answers she finds--not just about those she loves, but about herself.
FBI agent Nell Flynn hasn't been home in ten years. Nell and her father, Homicide Detective Martin Flynn, have never had much of a relationship. And Suffolk County will always be awash in memories of her mother, Marisol, who was murdered when Nell was just seven.
When Martin dies in a motorcycle accident, Nell returns to the house where she grew up so that she can spread her father's ashes and close his estate. At the behest of her father's partner, Detective Lee Davis, Nell becomes involved in an investigation into the murders of two young women in Suffolk County. The further Nell digs, the more likely it seems to her that her father should be the primse suspect--and that his friends on the police force are covering his tracks.
Plagued by doubts about her mother's murder, and her own role in exonerating her father in that case, Nell can't help but ask questions about who killed the two women and why. But she may not like the answers she finds--not just about those she loves, but about herself.
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I can't tell if it's because it's February and I'm just in a reading-romance kind-of-mood, or if this reminded me too much of the Long Island Serial Killer (L.I.S.K) case, but I found this story "meh." Granted, I don't know a lot about the L.I.S.K. case and I could be confusing this plot with another serial killer case that takes place on Long Island. Either way, it just felt too familiar to the point of unoriginality. Is that harsh? I swear, I can't tell sometimes. I have an unhealthy passion and interest in stories about serial killers. So if a book is inspired by a real-life SK (which I'm not sure if this book is or not), I just need for it to blow me out of the water. I tend to listen to true crime podcasts and there are only so many serial cases in the US, so I need to not feel like I've heard this same story before.
Enjoyable, quick mystery. Reads like a Law and Order episode. The author needed to do a little more research as I live ON Long Island and several of the details would not ring true to Long Islanders.
This book took me about 24 hours to read start to finish and did not disappoint. The way I got to solve the case while she was going through the motions. Didn’t expect tit to end the way it did.
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