Book Review: The Girl in the Pink Shoes

 

The Girl in the Pink Shoes (A Lucy Kendall Crime Thriller Book 1)

Pub Date 30 Jan 2023

 Bookouture 

 General Fiction (Adult)  |  Mystery & Thrillers 

I am reviewing a copy of The Girl in the Pink Shoes through Bookouture and Netgalley:

This morning my Baby girl was so excited for school.  She had the new sparkly pink

Shoes I bought her last night.  She loved them so much. She wore them for the first time today. And now she is gone.

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

Lucy Kendall is a private investigator.  She 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.

Lucy begins talking 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 made a promise to Jenna that 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?

I give The Girl in the Pink Shoes five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!