Missing Clarissa
A Novel
by Ripley Jones
Pub Date 07 Mar 2023
St. Martin’s Press, Wednesday Books
Teens & YA
I am reviewing a copy of Missing Clarissa through St Martin’s Press, Wednesday Books and Netgalley:
It was August of 1999 when Clarissa Campbell a dazzlingly popular cheerleader, disappears from a party in the woods outside the rural town of Oreville, Washington and is never seen again. The police question everyone in her life, her friends, her teachers and the adults who knew her. They all have something to hide. And thanks to Clarissa’s beauty, the mystery captures the attention of the nation. But with no leads and no body, the case soon grows cold. Despite the efforts of internet sleuths and true-crime aficionados, Clarissa is never found dead or alive.
Oreville high-school juniors and best friends Blair and Cameron start a true crime podcast, over twenty years later determined to unravel the story of what — or who — happened to this rural urban legend. In the process they uncover a nest of dirty small-town secrets, the sordid truth of Clarissa’s relationship with her charismatic boyfriend, and a high school art teacher
turned small-town figurehead who had a very good reason for wanting Clarissa dead. Such a good reason, in fact, that they might have to make him the highlight of their next episode.
But does an ugly history with a missing girl make him guilty of murder? Or are two teenage girls about to destroy the life of an innocent man — and help the true killer walk free?
I give Missing Clarissa five out of five stars!
Happy Reading!
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