Girl Missing (Previously published as Peggy Sue Got Murdered): A Novel Reissue edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From Tess Gerritsen, bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series, her stunning first thriller!
 
A beautiful young woman?s corpse is found dumped in a garbage-strewn alley. Now laid out in the office of medical examiner Kat Novak is an unidentified body that betrays no secrets?except for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. When a second victim is discovered, Kat begins to fear that a serial killer is stalking the streets, using a deadly drug to do his dirty work. The police are skeptical. The mayor won?t listen. One of the town?s most prominent citizens, with a missing daughter of his own, is also Kat?s chief suspect. As the death toll rises, Kat races to expose a deadly predator who is close enough to touch her.
 
Praise for Tess Gerritsen
 
?[The author] has a knack for creating great characters and mysterious plots that seem straightforward but also dazzle with complexity and twists.??Associated Press
 
?[Gerritsen] has an imagination that allows her to conjure up depths of human behavior so dark and frightening that she makes Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft seem like goody-two-shoes.??Chicago Tribune

?One of the most versatile voices in thriller fiction today.??The Providence Journal

Previously published as Peggy Sue Got Murdered