num_pages: 312
description: In a forest in Denmark a ranger discovers the fresh corpse of an unidentified woman. A large scar on one side of her face should make the identification easy but nobody has reported her missing. After four days Louise Rickthe new commander of the Missing Persons Departmentis still without answers. But when she releases a photo to the media an older woman phones to say that she recognizes the woman as Lisemette a child she once cared for in the state mental institution many years ago. Lisemette like the other children in the institution was abandoned by her family and branded a forgotten girl. But Louise soon discovers something more disturbing: Lisemette had a twin and both girls were issued death certificates over 30 years ago. As the investigation brings Louise closer to her childhood home she uncovers more crimes that were committedand hiddenin the forest and finds a terrible link to her own past that has been carefully concealed.
language: English
title: The Forgotten Girls
publisher: Grand Central Publishing