Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Release Date: April 25, 2023
Publisher: MIRA
Source: Publisher
Genre: Thrillers / Suspense
Six women are missing in a small bayou town--where everyone knows everyone and secrets stay buried--and now it's up to one Louisiana detective to fight his way through local police corruption to solve these crimes before more victims disappear, in this taut new thriller.
Police detective Beau Hebert is battling the corrupt St. Augustine Louisiana police department while in charge of an investigation of six local women who have gone missing or have been found dead. When Beau tracks down a local druggie, Jean Paul LeBlanc, wanted for fatally shooting a bartender, Jean Paul begs Beau to let him go — he claims he has valuable information about the dead women. Torn between wanting the truth and doing his duty, Beau reluctantly arrests the man. The next night, a local woman calls Beau in a panic — then she too goes missing.
When Jean Paul turns up dead in jail, Beau, a former naval officer, calls in the only person he can trust: former Navy SEAL Michael Harris, now a member of the FBI’s Mobile Response Team.
Michael and his partner LAPD detective Kara Quinn travel to the small bayou town in the heart of Louisiana. They will quietly assist Beau in his investigation into the dead women, while team leader Matt Costa comes down "officially" to investigate the death of a suspect in police custody. It doesn’t take long before Kara finds a young witness who knows more than she’s willing to say, and Matt butts heads with an unhelpful police chief.
In a town
where everyone knows everyone and secrets stay buried, it’s going to
take the entire team working around the clock not only to solve
multiple murders, but expose deep-seated corruption that extends far
beyond the small town borders.
Seven Girls Gone, by author Allison Brennan, is the Fourth installment in the authors Quinn and Costa series. Police detective Beau Hebert is battling the corrupt St. Augustine, Louisiana police department while in charge of an investigation of six local women who have gone missing or have been found dead with one woman, Lily, still missing. When Beau tracks down Jean Paul LeBlanc, wanted for fatally shooting a bartender, Jean Paul begs Beau to let him go, he claims he has valuable information about the dead women.
Torn between wanting the truth and doing his duty, Beau reluctantly arrests the man. The next night, a local woman named Ernestine calls Beau in a panic, then she too goes missing. When Jean Paul turns up dead in jail, Beau, a former naval officer, calls in the only person he can trust: former Navy SEAL Michael Harris, now a member of the FBI’s Mobile Response Team. Michael and his partner LAPD detective Kara Quinn travel to the small bayou town in the heart of Louisiana.
They will quietly assist Beau in his investigation into the dead women, while Special Agent Mathias Costa, who runs the new Mobile Response Team at the FBI, comes down "officially" to investigate the death of a suspect in police custody which doesn't to well with the locals. Costa's team includes analyst Ryder Kim, forensic specialist Jim Esteban, Zack Heller, a white-collar crimes expert, and LA Police Detective Kara Quinn has been an undercover cop for 12 years.
Kara cannot return to LA at the moment because of an incident that happened during the first installment. She's now on loan to the FBI, and assigned to Matt's team. Two two have had some interesting moments over the course of this series, and it's become a matter or what's more important. The relationship, or the job which Kara is really good at. It doesn’t take long before Kara finds a young witness, Winnie, who knows more than she’s willing to say. But Kara finds that she may become a target to some really awful cops.
To make matters worse, Matt butts heads with Chief of Police Richard Dubois who may know more than he wishes to reveal. In a town where everyone knows everyone and secrets stay buried, it’s going to take the entire team working around the clock not only to solve multiple murders, but expose deep-seated corruption that extends far beyond the small town borders. Talking gets you killed in this town. The team has their work cut out for them. Between the brothel, the drug-trafficking, and the corrupt officials, they are thinking there may be more than one murderer.
On a personal note, I am happy that Brennan doesn't insert her own politics into the story. She sticks to telling a story. She takes a legitimate look at a small town Southern town in Louisiana, which has a history of corruption, and doesn't hold back in exposing the local cops, the Sheriff, and others including a wannabe be Congress member. I hope that when and if the author writes another book in this series, she addresses Kara's former job, as well as her future in the FBI.
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