The Girl They All Forgot

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By Martin Edwards

Publisher Description

CWA Dagger and Edgar award-winning author Martin Edwards takes readers back to The Lake District after seven years with a cunningly layered mystery that Publishers Weekly calls a "skillful combination of procedural and whodunnit."

"Life is certainly nasty, brutish, and short—least for most of the characters in Edwards's much-awaited new installment, set on the edge of England's Lake District."—First Clue

What happened to Ramona Smith?

In the The Girl They All Forgot (The Crooked Shore), history always repeats itself. After a father and son commit suicide on the same day, twenty years apart, DCI Hannah Scarlet, and her Cold Cases Division reopen the investigation of Ramona Smith, a woman who disappeared twenty-one years ago. Desperate to finally find answers, Hannah and her team chase leads as meandering as the shoreline. As the body count rises, the Cold Cases Division must unravel the lives of those on The Crooked Shore before another murder plot unfolds.

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3.0

Kristen Hawkins

Created about 2 years ago

Tammy

Created over 2 years ago

“The Girl They All Forgot by Martin Edwards is a mystery book involving a cold case, which pops up again when a son dies in the same manner as his father from many years ago. This book switches points of view regularly & in the beginning, it gives you quite a few names & stories to obviously set the foundation of the novel. I have to admit I was a bit confused trying to keep track of everything going on & who was who. As soon as I would understand, it would switch to a snippet from a different person. Despite my confusion, I enjoyed getting all the different bits of information & I feel like it moved the story along with a quick pace. I would also like to add that I have chronic illnesses & I read this during a particularly mental brain foggy week, so this could just be my own problem. This is the first book I’ve read in this series as well. The practice of switching the primary character being discussed multiple times per chapter is something I struggled with. Perhaps if I had already known some of the characters from previous books, I wouldn’t have struggled as much. I will give this book props for putting so much crime into this book it felt like I was reviewing at least two books. It is a very interesting cold case along with parallel types of crime. I feel like fans of this series will enjoy this book very much. The Girl They All Forgot comes out June 7, 2022! Massive thanks to NetGalley & Poisoned Pen Press for allowing me the opportunity to read an arc of this book in exchange for an honest review. Trigger warnings: This book mentions and/or contains suicide, abuse, violence, murder, mental health struggles, sexual assault & gore.”

Caylareadsbooks

Created over 2 years ago

“Thank you to Poisoned Pen Press for having sent me a copy of The Girl They All Forgot for review. If you are looking for a good police procedural mystery thriller then this one would be right up your alley. I didn't know it was a series but I believe you can read this as a standalone because it felt like you wouldn't have needed to read the others in the series. The plot of the story was very complex and intriguing. Characters were well developed and Edwards did a good job at writing this story with a great ending!”

Clairevoyantbooks

Created over 2 years ago

Emily

Created over 2 years ago

About Martin Edwards

Martin Edwards is the recipient of the CWA 2020 Diamond Dagger Award for sustained excellence in his crime writing career and his significant contribution to the genre. His most recent novel is GALLOWS COURT, the second book in the Rachel Savernake Golden Age Mystery series. His eighth and most recent Lake District Mystery is THE GIRL THEY ALL FORGOT. Martin is also a well-known crime fiction critic, and series consultant to the British Library's Crime Classics. His groundbreaking study of the genre between the wars, The Golden Age of Murder, was warmly reviewed around the world, and won the Edgar, Agatha, H.R.F. Keating and Macavity awards. His The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books has been nominated for five awards. A well-known commentator on crime fiction, he has edited 37 anthologies and published diverse nonfiction books, including a study of homicide investigation, Urge to Kill. An expert on crime fiction history, he is archivist of both the Crime Writers' Association and the Detection Club. He was elected eighth President of the Detection Club in 2015, is current Chair of the CWA, and posts regularly to his blog, 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'