Last Day Alive by J. R. Adler
Last Day Alive by J.R. Adler (Kimberly King #2)
Available April 20, 2021
Although this was the second book in the series, I found it entertaining and pretty easy to get through and to understand even though most if the characters had been introduced in the first book. I typically don’t care for series, or police procedural, and especially not police procedural series, but this is an exception to the rule.
Kimberly is about a year into her time as a deputy sheriff in Dead Woman’s Crossing, a small Oklahoma town, when 10-year-old Piper Chase goes missing. Soon there is a second disappearance, and it’s up to Kimberly and her team to save the next girl and find out what happened to Piper. The antagonist also has small chapters from their point of view which make it all the more thrilling.Blurb: One hot summer’s evening, ten-year-old Piper Chase went for a bike ride. She never came home…
Piper cycles off one hot Oklahoma evening for a sleepover with her new friend Miley from summer camp. But when she doesn’t come home, her grandparents raise the alarm. Their little angel is missing, last seen on her pink bicycle, heading towards the dark woods on Black Heart Lane.
Detective Kimberley King knows that the first twenty-four hours in a missing child investigation are the most critical, but with no witnesses, and darkness falling in the small town of Dead Woman Crossing, she begins to fear the worst. She longs to find the little girl with wide blue eyes and an infectious smile, but when her team discovers Piper’s body in a woodland clearing, lying on a bed of moss, something inside her dies.
In a town where people leave their doors unlocked, Kimberley is terrified that another little girl might be snatched, and that night she holds her own daughter tighter. Desperate to find the monster who took the life of an innocent child, Kimberley chases down all the leads she has. The summer camp counsellor, who got too close to Piper and Miley and lost his job. Piper’s shifty uncle, who arrived back in town the day she disappeared…
Then she gets a call that chills her to the bone. Miley has gone missing. Has the killer who stole one little angel just taken another?
Piper cycles off one hot Oklahoma evening for a sleepover with her new friend Miley from summer camp. But when she doesn’t come home, her grandparents raise the alarm. Their little angel is missing, last seen on her pink bicycle, heading towards the dark woods on Black Heart Lane.
Detective Kimberley King knows that the first twenty-four hours in a missing child investigation are the most critical, but with no witnesses, and darkness falling in the small town of Dead Woman Crossing, she begins to fear the worst. She longs to find the little girl with wide blue eyes and an infectious smile, but when her team discovers Piper’s body in a woodland clearing, lying on a bed of moss, something inside her dies.
In a town where people leave their doors unlocked, Kimberley is terrified that another little girl might be snatched, and that night she holds her own daughter tighter. Desperate to find the monster who took the life of an innocent child, Kimberley chases down all the leads she has. The summer camp counsellor, who got too close to Piper and Miley and lost his job. Piper’s shifty uncle, who arrived back in town the day she disappeared…
Then she gets a call that chills her to the bone. Miley has gone missing. Has the killer who stole one little angel just taken another?
There’s also some family drama in this one that makes it more than just your basic procedural. Kimberly has a young daughter, Jessica, and moved away from NYC, running from a case she handled there, to Dead Woman’s Crossing. She now lives with her mother, Nicole. In the first book, quite a bit happened with Nicole and her husband, as well as the rest of the family, but it’s all explained in this one. The drama adds nuance to Kimberly’s character which I enjoyed.
I’m surprisingly excited to read the next book, and I would definitely recommend this to anyone who enjoys police procedurals.
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