Usually, Frankie finds her next case online, frequenting chat rooms and forums where family members and friends join “crazy people like” her to discuss the investigations conducted by local authorities, and share theories and information. She had been missing for eighteen months.

Most recently, she located the body of a twenty-two-year old woman locked in a her vehicle at the bottom of a lake. She has no interest in payment or recognition, and has so far solved fourteen cases without finding a single missing person still alive. Rather, she goes wherever the cases lead her and volunteers her time.

” Gardner does not explain what happened, but Frankie has no home now. Frankie once “had a house, a car, a white picket fence.

Warren is a Detective with the Boston Police Department, a city in which Gardner formerly resided. Gardner found her story “inspiring” and “a bit mesmerizing,” and wondered, “What would that look like?” Thus, the character of Frankie Elkns was born. Lissa Yellowbird-Chase believes that too many missing children of color are forgotten, their cases never solved. She happened upon an article about a woman who gave up everything to pursue cold cases involving missing persons. And before she disappeared is no exception. Gardner says that most of her plots are inspired by actual events or persons. Rather, she's an ordinary woman with a troubled past. But Frankie Elkin, unlike D.D., is not a trained professional. She has now penned the first volume in another series at the heart of which is a strong female protagonist. Lisa Gardner is the best-selling author of more than twenty suspense novels, including her popular Detective D.D. even if it means the next person to go missing could be her. But she will stop at nothing to discover the truth. Soon Frankie learns she's asking questions that someone doesn't want answered. The resistance she encounters from the Boston Police Department and the victim's wary family tells Frankie she's on her own. When the police have given up, the public no longer remembers, and the media has stopped running stories, Frankie starts looking.Ī new case brings her to Mattapan, a tough Boston neighborhood, in search of Angelique Badeau, a Haitian teenager who vanished from her high school months ago. She spends her life doing what no one else will - searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. she can fit all of her possessions into one suitcase. New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner launches a new thriller series featuring Frankie Elkin, a woman who will stop at nothing to find the missing people that the rest of the world has forgottenįrankie is a middle-aged recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings.

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