🎧 Book Review: The Girl in the Pink Shoes by Stacy Green

Genre ~ psychological thriller, mystery

Featuring ~ dual timeline, Private Investigator, crime, police procedural, kidnapping, heavy topics ~ pedophilia, molestation, child abuse, suicide

POV ~ single 1st person

Series ~ Lucy Kendall ~ book 1

Re~release date ~ January 30, 2023

Page count ~ 304

Audio length ~ 9 hours 30 minutes

My rating ~ 4⭐

My review:

Book 1 in the Lucy Kendall series and a re~release from 2014.

Lucy is a bad-ass vigilante private investigator on the case of missing 8 year old, Kailey. She’s already mad that the sex offender across the street has been released from prison. He must know where sweet Kailey is, right?

As a mom, and a human being with a heart, I hate to read kidnapping stories, but I am always drawn to them and this one is no exception. Did Lucy do some questionable things? Sure did, but I was kept engaged throughout and really invested in the story.

This was a great introduction to a new series. I am hoping Todd and/or Chris will be involved in the coming books.

Narrated by Amelia Sciandra for 9 hours and 30 minutes. She did a fine job.

*Thanks to Stacy Green, Bookouture Audio and NetGalley for my audio copy. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*

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Book blurb:

My baby girl. This morning she was so excited for school. I bought her new shoes last night. Pink, sparkly shoes. She loved them so much. She wore them for the first time today. And now she is gone…

It is every mother’s worst nightmare. Eight-year-old Kailey Richardson skips out of the school gates in her brand-new pink shoes and never makes it home. Between the school and the safety of her shiny red front door, someone has taken her.

Private Investigator Lucy Kendall sees the fliers of a smiling gap-toothed Kailey and knows she won’t be able to sleep until the little girl is found. Having lost her own sister to the darkest evil, she is determined to help find Kailey before it is too late.

As Lucy talks to Kailey’s friends, desperate to find out who has taken the happy little girl, she begins to form a worrying picture of the days before Kailey’s disappearance. The blue car idling in the street outside the school. The friendly man across the road. And Kailey’s mother, Jenna, hollow-eyed and jumpy, clutching Kailey’s teddy bear and not telling Lucy everything.

Lucy has promised Jenna she will do everything to find her daughter. But then she discovers Jenna has a connection to the prime suspect in Kailey’s disappearance… and one which brings Lucy’s past rushing back to haunt her. Time is running out to find Kailey, but will Lucy be able to save this innocent little girl before her own demons destroy her?

You won’t want to stop turning the pages of this unputdownable crime thriller. Fans of Lisa Regan, Robert Dugoni and Kendra Elliot will be reading The Girl in the Pink Shoes late into the night.

Previously published as All Good Deeds.

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