The names of dead girls

Eric Rickstad

Book - 2017

Every murder tells a story. Some stories never end . . . In a remote northern Vermont town, college student Rachel Rath is being watched. She can feel the strangers eyes on her, relentless and possessive. And shes sure the man watching her is the same man who killed her mother and father years ago: Ned Preacher, a serial rapist and murderer who gamed the system to get a light sentence. Now, hes free. Detective Frank Rath adopted Rachel, his niece, after the shocking murder of her parents when she was a baby. Ever since, Raths tried to protect her from the true story of her parents deaths. But now Preacher is calling Rath to torment him. Hes threatening Rachel and plotting cruelties for her, of the flesh and of the mind. When other girls are... found brutally murdered, and a woman goes missing, Rath and Detective Sonja Test must untangle the threads that tie these new crimes and some long-ago nightmares together. Soon they will learn that the truth is more perverse than anyone could guess, rife with secrets, cruel desires, and warped, deadly loyalty.

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Genres
Suspense fiction
Thrillers (Fiction)
Published
New York : William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers [2017]
Language
English
Main Author
Eric Rickstad (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
434 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN
9780062672803
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

In Thriller Award-finalist Rickstad's underwhelming sequel to 2015's e-book original, The Silent Girls, the past isn't past. Frank Rath, a retired Vermont state police detective, is horrified to get a phone call from Ned Preacher, who raped his sister, Laura, and killed her and her husband, Daniel, 16 years earlier. Preacher is now free, having pleaded guilty to lesser crimes and acted like a saint while in prison to reduce his sentence. Preacher is threatening to harm Laura and Daniel's daughter, Rachel, whom Frank raised as his own after their deaths. Meanwhile, Dana Clark, the only survivor of an attack by the Connecticut River Valley Killer, disappears, and another young woman turns up dead. Insp. Gerard Champine, a Canadian police detective, calls Rath because there are similar murder cases in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. Rath leaves retirement to take charge of the investigation. Rickstad throws in some wicked twists as Rath tries to make sense of the killings, but they're not enough to make up for the weak detective work. Agent: Philip G. Spitzer, Philip G. Spitzer Literary Agency. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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