num_pages: 352
description: Propulsive... Not only is the book difficult to put down its also an adroit exploration of the ethical quandaries of true-crime storytelling particularly in podcasts. The New York Times Book Review Elle Castillo once trained as a social worker supporting young victims of violent crime. Now she hosts a popular true crime podcast that focuses on cold cases of missing and abducted children. After four seasons of successfully solving these cases in Minnesotas Twin Cities Elle decides to tackle her white The Countdown Killer. Twenty years ago TCK was terrorizing the community kidnapping and ritualistically murdering three girls over seven days each a year younger than the last. Then after he took his eleven-year-old victim the patternand the murdersabruptly stopped. No one has ever known why. When Elle follows up on a listener tip only to discover the mans dead body she feels at fault. Then within days a child is abducteda young girl who seems to fit suspiciously into the TCK sequence halted decades before. While media and law enforcement long ago concluded that TCK had suicided Elle has never believed TCK was dead. She had hoped her investigation would lay that suspicion to rest but her podcast seems instead to be inciting new victims. A masterful heart-pounding suspense that ushers in an astonishing new voice in crime fiction.Samantha M. Bailey internationally bestselling author of Woman on the EdgeA tale of obsession dark histories and one womans quest to bring a terrifying killer to justice GIRL 11 is delivered with poise style and cunning - making it impossible to put down.Alex Segura acclaimed author of Miami Midnight and Blackout
language: English
title: Girl, 11
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt