Little Girl Lost

Cheryl Bradshaw

Oct 2020 · Georgiana Germaine Book 1 · Pixie Publishing

About this ebook

From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Sloane Monroe novels comes a gripping new series about love, loss, murder, and a broken former detective who's about to be drawn out of hiding.

For the past two years, Georgiana "Gigi" Germaine has been living off the grid, until today, when she hears some disturbing news that shakes her. Georgiana's brother-in-law has been murdered, her seven-year-old niece kidnapped. As the hours waste away, Georgiana races back to a town she left behind, and a former life she's still not ready to face.

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Ratings and reviews

The peace of Gigi’s isolated existence is shattered when she receives devastating news: her brother-in-law has been murdered, and her seven-year-old niece has been abducted. Faced with a race against time and mounting danger, Gigi is forced to return to her old life—a life she left behind and one that holds painful memories she’s not yet ready to confront.

Little Girl Lost sounded like a gritty detective story, the first in a new detective series. I do love a good mystery series, and I’m always on the lookout for a new main character to follow from case to case. Georgiana “Gigi” Germaine is the star of this show, and she’s a likable enough character. She’s a bit broken although we don’t know exactly why in the beginning. Little tidbits here and there are enough for a reader to hazard a generalized guess, but we don’t get that information until the end. Georgiana is certainly flawed, and she doesn’t always play by the rules, but those things make for some of my most favorite heroes and heroines in these kinds of stories. As for the case, it all started out with an edge of your seat scene. I’m always that way when a child is involved, and this one was quite well done and definitely gripping. Then the story slowed down and started losing me. I get that this is a new series, and a certain amount of introduction and description is necessary for setting the stage, but I prefer that to be done organically throughout the story. Here, we get a whole lot of information about characters and places but very little about the case. Georgiana does some investigating, but it kind of felt like she was getting nowhere to make time for all that extra information. We get plenty of chats with this person and that one where we learn lots of mundane things but very little to do with the case. It just felt like there should’ve been more urgency, especially with Georgiana looking for her own niece. A niece taken by her father’s murderer. Parts of the story seemed like there was a book before this one where things took place, particularly a college friend who could have been more or was more. I just found myself wanting to skim to get to a point when things would pick up. Things do start to move at around the halfway mark, and the pace steadily speeds up as Georgiana follows one lead after another and moves from dangerous situation to more dangerous situation. Once the story builds some momentum, the author paints a tension filled picture of our detective and the clues leading to the killer and hopefully, young Lark alive and well. So, for me, Little Girl Lost has a solid beginning, as in the very beginning when the murder happens, and it has a good second half. It’s the stuff in the middle that could’ve done with some tightening up. It’s not a bad book by any means, but it’s not without its issues, so I’ve come out somewhere in the fair to middlin range.

Cambria a small town with a long memory when it comes to Gigi a detective who left, her job and marriage. Her stepdad Harvey came to this isolated place she is hiding in, only he knew where she was at. Her brother in law been murdered and her seven year old neice kidnapped. The dream she just had, so it was true. A twisted plot, a dysfunctional family, lies, afffairs, old loves, this has it all. She is frustrated when trying to interview people, her temper gets in the way. The PI her brother in law had hired, he now has been murdered. The days are passing and no clues,or does the dog, that hides objects in his bed have the missing piece. Good flowing plot, the characters are something else and there is a whole family of their long memories of not forgiving Gigi.

About the author

Cheryl Bradshaw is a New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Author writing in the genres of mystery, thriller, romantic suspense, women's fiction, poetry, paranormal suspense, and all things that go bump in the night. Raised in California, she now lives in Cairns, Australia and spends her free time traveling the world.