The Girls Before: A Novel

A search & rescue expert. A kidnapped woman. The lost girls who haunt them both.
“A haunting, dual-narrative thriller that traps you in the dark.” —The Seattle Times

“A superb mystery. . . Readers will be thinking about this long after they turn the last page.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

There is a girl in a basement.
The door has stopped opening.
The light is gone.

Stranger is trapped in the dark, with only her imagination and the scribbles on the wall left by long-dead girls to keep h...