Little Girls Sleeping by Jennifer Chase | Thriller Fiction Audiobook Review
That ending though . . .
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Little Girls Sleeping by Jennifer Chase
Released May 2019
Source: Purchased
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This was a decent enough start to a series featuring an army veteran named Katie and her service dog Cisco. It's too bad it blew the ending.
Katie's given an office job by her uncle at a police station and is soon snooping into a cold case of a missing child. The snooping leads to her and Cisco stumbling on to the graves of two little dead girls.
Katie seems to stumble her way into a lot of things in this book and if I ever decide to continue with the series I hope this changes. I loved Cisco and am glad he wasn't injured in any way, but I'll be forever perplexed about why he wasn't on the cover instead of the generic thing we get instead. There's a little flirtation but no romance and there's a bunch of resentment with the men on the force who think she doesn't belong there and isn't qualified to do what she's been doing and though it's annoying, they're not totally wrong because though she seems to have good instincts, she's doesn't have any experience to be jumping in like she does. The silly ass coincidence at the end with the villain was insanely ridiculous and made me laugh instead of feeling like I probably should've. It felt like the author wanted the book done as much as I did at that point and just threw that in
to get things done. Weird.
I'll probably only read the next one if the ladies in my book group want to continue with it. There was nothing here that really stood out as exceptional, but there's potential for growth.
And thems my thoughts.
Katie's given an office job by her uncle at a police station and is soon snooping into a cold case of a missing child. The snooping leads to her and Cisco stumbling on to the graves of two little dead girls.
Katie seems to stumble her way into a lot of things in this book and if I ever decide to continue with the series I hope this changes. I loved Cisco and am glad he wasn't injured in any way, but I'll be forever perplexed about why he wasn't on the cover instead of the generic thing we get instead. There's a little flirtation but no romance and there's a bunch of resentment with the men on the force who think she doesn't belong there and isn't qualified to do what she's been doing and though it's annoying, they're not totally wrong because though she seems to have good instincts, she's doesn't have any experience to be jumping in like she does. The silly ass coincidence at the end with the villain was insanely ridiculous and made me laugh instead of feeling like I probably should've. It felt like the author wanted the book done as much as I did at that point and just threw that in
to get things done. Weird.
I'll probably only read the next one if the ladies in my book group want to continue with it. There was nothing here that really stood out as exceptional, but there's potential for growth.
And thems my thoughts.
Final Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Publisher Plot Synopsis
He looked down at the little girl, sleeping peacefully, her arms wrapped around a teddy bear. He knew he was the only one who could save her. He could let her sleep forever.
An eight-year-old girl, Chelsea Compton, is missing in Pine Valley, California and for Detective Katie Scott it’s a cruel reminder of the friend who disappeared from summer camp twenty years ago. Unable to shake the memories, Katie vows she won’t rest until she discovers what happened to Chelsea.
But as Katie starts to investigate, the case reveals itself to be much bigger and more shocking than she feared. Hidden deep in the forest she unearths a makeshift cemetery: a row of graves, each with a brightly coloured teddy bear.
Katie links the graves to a stack of missing-persons cases involving young girls—finding a pattern no one else has managed to see. Someone in Pine Valley has been taking the town’s daughters for years, and Katie is the only one who can stop them.
And then another little girl goes missing, snatched from the park near her home.
Katie’s still haunted by the friend she failed to protect, and she’ll do anything to stop the killer striking again—but can she find the little girl before it’s too late?
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