THE FORGOTTEN GIRLS

This is the sixth Stevens and Windermere novel. Laukkanen has a knack not only for terrific plot twists, but for his characters as well: heroes, villains, and the victims who decide it’s time to fight back.

She was a forgotten girl, a runaway found murdered on the High Line train through the northern Rocky Mountains and, with little local interest, put into a dead file. But she wasn’t alone. When Kirk Stevens and Carla Windermere of the joint FBI-BCA violent crime force stumble upon the case, they discover a horror far greater than anyone expected—a string of murders on the High Line, all of them young women drifters whom no one would notice.

Through the bleak midwinter and a frontier land of forbidding geography, Stevens and Windermere follow a frustratingly light trail of clues—and where it ends, even they will be shocked.

Owen Laukkanen is also the author of The Professionals, Criminal Enterprise, Kill Fee, The Stolen Ones, and The Watcher in the Wall (all published by Putnam). He lives in Vancouver.