For fans of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and Veronica Mars, this whip-smart thriller follows a sapphic detective agency as they seek the truth behind a growing trail of missing girls in small-town Louisiana.
A year ago, beloved cheerleader Stella Blackthorn vanished without a trace. Devastated, her younger sister, Iris, launched her own investigation, but all she managed to do was scare off the police's only lead and earn a stern warning: Once she turns eighteen, more meddling means prison-level consequences.
Then, a year later, the unthinkable happens. Iris's ex-girlfriend, Heather, goes missing, too—just after dropping the polarizing last episode of her true crime podcast all about Iris's sister. This time, nothing will stop Iris and her amateur sleuthing agency from solving these disappearances.
But with a suspicious detective watching her every move, an enemy-turned-friend-turned-maybe-more to contend with, and only thirty days until she turns eighteen, it's a race against the clock for Iris to solve the most dangerous case of her life.
Content warnings: Please be advised How to Find a Missing Girl deals with dark topics and themes which include graphic, on-page depictions of blood, a car accident, grief, cursing, and death; moderate on-page mentions of medical content, alcohol, infidelity, an adult/minor relationship (challenged), cancer, the death of a parent, mental illness, and murder; and brief allusions to or minor depictions of gore, drug use, stalking, vomit, emotional abuse, suicide, panic attacks/disorders, gun violence, homophobia (challenged), a terminal illness, and violence.
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