The Last Good Girl

Zusatztext Praise For Allison Leotta “[Leotta is] a writer exceptionally well-informed about crimes against women … these are smart! tough-minded tales! well worth a look.” -- The Washington Post "Leotta pens romantic suspense detailing street crime in a style that´s as real as it gets." – USA Today “A female John Grisham.” — The Providence Journal “An assured and authentic voice! and a highly entertaining storyteller.” –George Pelecanos Informationen zum Autor Allison Leotta was a federal sex-crimes prosecutor in Washington, DC, for twelve years. In 2011, she left the Justice Department to pursue writing full time. She is the acclaimed author of Law of Attraction , Discretion , Speak of the Devil , A Good Killing , and The Last Good Girl and founder of the award-winning blog, The Prime-Time Crime Review. Leotta lives with her husband, Michael, and their two sons outside of Washington, DC. Visit her online at AllisonLeotta.com. Klappentext "Emma, a freshman at a Michigan university, has gone missing. She was last seen leaving a bar near the prestigious and secretive fraternity known on campus as 'the rape factory.' The main suspect is Dylan Brooks, the son of one of the most powerful politicians in the state. But so far the only clues are pieced-together surveillance footage of Emma leaving the bar that night--and Dylan running down the street after her. When Anna discovers the video diary Emma kept over her first few months at college, it exposes the history she had with Dylan: she had accused him of rape before disappearing"--The Last Good Girl 1 The guy had beautiful white teeth and a dimple that appeared when she made him laugh, but all Emily could think was, College is where romance goes to die. They stood on prime real estate, belly-up to the bar at Lucky’s, pressed together by the swell of bodies around them. The air was thick with sweated perfume, cheap beer, and the recycled breath of hundreds of young adults in their sexual prime. The boy drained his Bud, set the bottle on the bar, and issued a mating call. “Wanna do shots?” Translation: Wanna get wasted, get laid, get out of my bed, and never to talk to me again? There were no boyfriends in college. There were only hookups. Emily smiled at the boy, tilting her head cutely to the side. To the world, she probably looked like any other carefree girl basking in a Friday night. It made her wonder how many of these girls were just like her. Pretending. Maybe all of them, in one way or another. “Sure,” she said. The dimple reappeared. The boy turned to wave over a bartender. Over the hum of conversation and Pitbull, Emily heard the bells of the clock tower outside, striking midnight. Twelve solemn bongs marking the start of March 24, 2015. She’d heard those bells chiming on the hour, every hour, her entire life. As a girl, she’d lain in her pretty pink bedroom listening to their bass chimes, wondering what it’d be like when she was a college student herself, the adventures and grown-up secrets that would finally be revealed to her like beautiful presents to be unwrapped, one by one. That seemed like a very long time ago. Tonight, the chimes meant Dylan and his friends would walk into the bar soon. She had to get out of here. The bartender delivered two shot glasses filled with shimmery blue potion. “I’m sorry,” she told the boy. “You’re totally nailing the horny-but-caring-frat-boy thing. Maybe put your hand gently on my shoulder when you look in my eyes? Try it on one of them.” She gestured to all the shiny, uncomplicated girls who thought their prince was behind the next $1 pitcher of beer. Emily missed being one of them. “I gotta go.” She picked up the first shot gla...

Product details

• Authors: Allison Leotta
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9781476761114
• ISBN: 978-1-4767-6111-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Anna Curtis Series; Anna Curtis; Anna Curtis Series
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature