The Buried Girl by Richard Montanari, Book Review
‘Terrifying and lyrical, a killer combination’ Tess Gerritsen Death is the meeting place of the past and the present in this richly layered suspenseful mystery. From 1819 Amsterdam to the present day Ohio, destinies are interwoven to create a well-told eerie story of missing teenage girls. Detta and her psychologist father, Will Hardy, move to Abbeville Ohio not long after his wife is murdered. A fresh start is what they both hope for and for Will perhaps an opportunity to rebuild his troubled relationship with his daughter who blames him for the death of her mother. In Abbeville they meet Ivy Holgrave, the Abbeville chief of police, whose life too has been blighted by murder, the disappearance, years ago, of her sister. When she has to investigate the death of a local girl, she uncovers a decade’s old pattern of missing teenage girls. I was enchanted by the brief diary entries of Eva Claire Larssen starting in 1868, a teenage girl who was to gain domestic emp
