Girls Like Us by Cristina Alger, Book Review

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I knew I liked Cristina Alger’s pacey style from reading her last book, (you can find my review of The Banker’s Wife here on The Crime Warp) but I loved Girls Like Us even more. Once again, she has hit the Zeitgeist on the head with the problems faced by many Latino women in America, underage girls procured for the parties of the rich and powerful and communities bullied by corrupt police departments.

The protagonist is an FBI agent, Nell Flynn, who goes home to Suffolk County, Long Island, when her father, a retired cop, dies in what appears to be a tragic motorcycle accident. Suffolk County is the place of her past, her childhood, her high school years, and you might imagine she has fond memories – but that too is complicated, not least of all by the memory of her mother’s murder.

 As Americans would say, Nell Flynn is a tough cookie, but as events unfold, it is questionable whether even she is tough enough to deal with the murders, trafficking and police corruption that threaten to blow her life apart. Who do you turn to for support and back-up when you don’t know whom you can trust? How can you save others, when your own life is in danger?

This hugely entertaining and suspenseful thriller was first published 11^th July 2019 by Mulholland Books in trade paperback for £14.99.

(Toria Forsyth-Moser)

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