The Silent Dolls

Title: The Silent  Dolls

Series:Detective Ellie Reeves #1

Author: Rita Herron

Genre: mystery thriller

Pub July 17,2020

Rating: 5

Silent tears trickle down her cheeks as she curls inside the tiny cave-like space. She lies on her side, darkness all around her, rubbing her fingers over the little wooden doll he’d carved. He told her to be quiet, not to cry or scream. Not to be a baby. Her throat was raw, her eyes swollen shut. She wanted her mommy and daddy. She wanted to go home.

When Penny Matthews, a seven-year-old girl with blonde curls and a gap-toothed smile, goes missing in the Appalachian mountains, Detective Ellie Reeves is called straight to the scene. According to Penny’s parents, their daughter vanished after a picnic by the creek. All that’s left behind is a pink friendship bracelet etched with “Penny”.

Ellie knows all too well that the mountains’ endless miles of dark forest and winding rivers are the perfect place for a criminal to hide. Racing against the rapidly setting sun and a brutal winter storm on the horizon, she searches desperately for Penny.

Special Agent Derrick Fox is determined to join the hunt. His younger sister, Kim, disappeared in the same area twenty-five years ago––on the day he was meant to be watching her. He’s certain the cases are linked and that over a dozen girls have vanished in the last decade. Ellie refuses to believe that their tight-knit mountain community could be home to a deadly criminal, but even she can’t deny the similarities in the cases. And when they discover the remains of a small body buried with a carved wooden doll, it’s clear they’re up against a deadly serial killer preying on innocent little girls.

As the temperature plunges, Penny’s life hangs in the balance. Most people who get lost in the woods never make it out alive. Can Ellie and Derrick defy the odds and find out the truth about all the stolen girls? Or will the mountain, and its twisted killer, claim another victim?

 

My thoughts:

Would I recommend it? Yes

Would I read more of the series? Yes

Would I read more by this author? Yes

This book had me hooked right from the start when it starts off with the prologue and after reading that i knew I had to keep reading  it, I didn't want to stop. It was everything I was hopping t would be dark and twisted in some was , fast pace but not to fast that it would lose you the read and the characters was well written to the point that they came alive on the page, and I loved how every time you think you had something figured out , then comes a long a twist that just throws you for a loop, and the more you read the more you seen to find out that there are secrets been kept from everyone and not just from the main character herself. As for the characters there was some I loved and are my favorites and some i was like what in the world is she is on, But over all my favorite ones kept win hands down. All I can say is that this is amazing start to a new series that I want to read, now I just have to wait for the second book. With that said I want to thank NetGalley as well as as Bookouture  for letting me read and review it and helping me find a new series to start.