BEFORE SHE DISAPPEARED

Narrator Hillary Huber’s wry intonation perfectly matches the personality of loner amateur detective Frankie Elkin. AA meetings and prickly law enforcement officials are the only constants in her life as she travels around the country searching for missing women and girls, especially those from marginalized communities. Driven and haunted,, she keeps looking even though the cops have moved on and the media never cared. Her latest case involves a studious Haitian refugee teen who went missing from a Boston neighborhood full of gangs. Some of the neighborhood characters get a light Haitian accent, but the cops Frankie finds growing on her are distinctively voiced without New England accents. Huber’s pace quickens as Frankie races to make Angelique the fifteenth girl she recovers, and, she hopes, the first one to be found alive. S.T.C. 2022 Audies Finalist © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine [Published: APRIL 2021]