I am am reviewing The One That Got Away through Down and Out Books and Netgalley:
Back in the early 2000’s a series of abductions rocked the small upstate town of Reine New York. The only girl that survived was Alex Salerno. Ken Parson’s the murderer was turned away, and life went back to normal, no more girls dying until it all changed and another girl was murdered.
Kira Shanks was reported missing and presumed dead twelve years ago. Alex Sareno has been living in New York City piecemealing paychecks so she can earn a livable wage, as she tries to forget the three days she was locked underground or her affair with Sean Riley the married detective who had rescued her.
Noah Lee, a hometown reporter with a journalistic pedigree requests an interview so Alex heads back to Reine and Riley opening up old wounds. The interviews that begin as Q&A’s for a newspaper article becomes an opportunity for money, closure and Justice. The disappearance of Kira Shanks has long been blamed on Benny Brudzienski, a hulking man-child who is now a brain-addled guest at the Galloway State Mental Hospital. But after Alex reconnects with ex-classmates and frenemies, doubts are cast on that guilt. Alex is drawn into a dangerous game of show and tell in an insular town where everyone has a secret to hide. And as more details emerge about the night Kira Shanks went missing, Alex discovers there are some willing to kill to protect the horrific truth and that maybe the wrong man has been blamed for the crimes.
I give The One That Got Away four out of five stars!