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Missing White Girl
A bestselling Young Adult author takes an adult turn.
Bram Stoker Award-nominated author Jeffrey Mariotte delivers a novel of heartstopping horror. When a girl is kidnapped and her family murdered, Sheriff's Lieutenant Buck Shelton is drawn into a bloody supernatural showdown between good and evil-with an innocent girl.
Bram Stoker Award-nominated author Jeffrey Mariotte delivers a novel of heartstopping horror. When a girl is kidnapped and her family murdered, Sheriff's Lieutenant Buck Shelton is drawn into a bloody supernatural showdown between good and evil-with an innocent girl.
320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 29, 2007
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Jeffrey J. Mariotte
161 books164 followersAlso writes as Jeff Mariotte
Jeffrey J. Mariotte is the bestselling, award-winning author of more than 70 novels, including the Cody Cavanaugh western series, historical western epic Blood and Gold: The Legend of Joaquin Murrieta (with Peter Murrieta), thrillers Empty Rooms and The Devil's Bait, supernatural thrillers Season of the Wolf, Missing White Girl, River Runs Red, and Cold Black Hearts, horror epic The Slab, and the Dark Vengeance teen horror quartet. With wife and writing partner Marsheila (Marcy) Rockwell, he wrote the sf/horror/thriller 7 SYKOS and Mafia III: Plain of Jars, the authorized prequel to the bestselling video game. His most recent release is the short story collection Byrd's Luck & Other Stories, comprising five "traditional" Western tales and five horror-Western stories, two of them brand-new for this edition.
He also writes occasional nonfiction, short fiction (some of which is collected in Nine Frights), and comic books, including the long-running horror/Western comic book series Desperadoes and graphic novels Fade to Black and Zombie Cop. With Marsheila Rockwell, he has published several short stories and is working on more. He has worked in virtually every aspect of the book business, as a writer, editor, marketing executive, and bookseller.
Learn more at www.jeffmariotte.com, and follow him at https://www.facebook.com/JeffreyJMari... and @JeffMariotte on Twitter.
Also writes as Jeff Mariotte
Jeffrey J. Mariotte is the bestselling, award-winning author of more than 70 novels, including the Cody Cavanaugh western series, historical western epic Blood and Gold: The Legend of Joaquin Murrieta (with Peter Murrieta), thrillers Empty Rooms and The Devil's Bait, supernatural thrillers Season of the Wolf, Missing White Girl, River Runs Red, and Cold Black Hearts, horror epic The Slab, and the Dark Vengeance teen horror quartet. With wife and writing partner Marsheila (Marcy) Rockwell, he wrote the sf/horror/thriller 7 SYKOS and Mafia III: Plain of Jars, the authorized prequel to the bestselling video game. His most recent release is the short story collection Byrd's Luck & Other Stories, comprising five "traditional" Western tales and five horror-Western stories, two of them brand-new for this edition.
He also writes occasional nonfiction, short fiction (some of which is collected in Nine Frights), and comic books, including the long-running horror/Western comic book series Desperadoes and graphic novels Fade to Black and Zombie Cop. With Marsheila Rockwell, he has published several short stories and is working on more. He has worked in virtually every aspect of the book business, as a writer, editor, marketing executive, and bookseller.
Learn more at www.jeffmariotte.com, and follow him at https://www.facebook.com/JeffreyJMari... and @JeffMariotte on Twitter.
Also writes as Jeff Mariotte
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April 12, 2010
This was the first of Mariotte's novels that I've read, and I really enjoyed it. The Southwest setting was very accurately portrayed, and I enjoyed his character's focus on the injustice between media coverage for caucasian versus non-Caucasian victims of similar crimes.
Mariotte's writing is fast-paced and comfortable, and although the horror-fan in me wanted to see more of the supernatural in the story, I enjoyed what was there very much.
Definitely would recommend to others.
Mariotte's writing is fast-paced and comfortable, and although the horror-fan in me wanted to see more of the supernatural in the story, I enjoyed what was there very much.
Definitely would recommend to others.
January 16, 2016
Missing White Girl is Book 2 in the Border Trilogy but once again is a complete stand alone novel. I find that to be a very rare thing in the book world. Normally an author spends the first three chapters re-hashing the last book...not Jeff Marriotte. He's been in the writing game far too long and knows how to suck readers in! MWG an exciting blend of mystery/thriller that I can't wait to see how he terminates in book three.
A must read - in order - that I highly recommend!
A must read - in order - that I highly recommend!
October 13, 2012
An excellent story, but a rather abrupt ending.
March 17, 2012
Great book for anyone who loves mystery, suspense, and horror.
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March 19, 2014Given to me with some other books by my sister-in-law. Adding it to the TBR.
August 28, 2019
Jeffrey J. Mariotte’s thriller Missing White Girl starts out seeming entirely ordinary, but it’s really a paranormal thriller. (This can feel discordant if you don’t know it up front, and I don’t feel that it’s giving anything away to tell you.) White girl and wannabe-model Elayne Lippincott has been missing for 12 days. When teenager Lulu Lavender goes missing as well–and her entire family is killed–no one pays much attention, quite likely because Lulu is half-black half-Mexican. Buck, a patrol lieutenant with the sheriff’s office, however, is determined to put in his best effort to find her with whatever resources he can squeeze out of the media-loving sheriff. The obvious suspect is neighbor and college professor Oliver, who has a history of sleeping with a student. The reader, however, knows from Lulu’s sections that things aren’t that simple. Eventually it comes out that Lulu was having dreams of miracles occurring across the border in Mexico, before they happened–something to do with a white statue of a young woman. And her captor only wants to know one thing: “When is she coming?”
Because we know more about Lulu’s circumstances than Buck does, some of Buck’s investigations are tedious. We already know whoever has her is with her in a cabin somewhere, so it clearly can’t be Oliver, who spends time at home with his wife. If the author had put off revealing Lulu’s predicament for a little while, maybe these mundane investigations would have seemed more interesting, had more tension to them.
Magic is real, but it mostly turns up as something unknowable and unexplainable, with people following the dictates of a magical statue and, at the end, someone briefly aiming magic at another person. I don’t want to go into detail regarding the ending, obviously, but I will say that I found it unsatisfying. It just kind of lets go of something that had been building up with little explanation.
The race and class issues that show up in here are interesting. There is some clear tendency of the media and some of law enforcement to pay more attention to the wealthy white missing girl’s case than Lulu’s. The reader has to sit through some characters’ arguments for why immigrants are such a problem. Content note for both anti- and pro-immigration rhetoric. Also, explicit sex.
Even toward the end of the book I had a hard time getting truly engrossed. The action didn’t pick up until late, and it wasn’t particularly engaging. There’s a firefight involving at least six different sides, and it was good, but not breathtaking. Other than that, things were a bit unsatisfying.
Original review posted on my blog: http://www.errantdreams.com/2019/08/r...
Because we know more about Lulu’s circumstances than Buck does, some of Buck’s investigations are tedious. We already know whoever has her is with her in a cabin somewhere, so it clearly can’t be Oliver, who spends time at home with his wife. If the author had put off revealing Lulu’s predicament for a little while, maybe these mundane investigations would have seemed more interesting, had more tension to them.
Magic is real, but it mostly turns up as something unknowable and unexplainable, with people following the dictates of a magical statue and, at the end, someone briefly aiming magic at another person. I don’t want to go into detail regarding the ending, obviously, but I will say that I found it unsatisfying. It just kind of lets go of something that had been building up with little explanation.
The race and class issues that show up in here are interesting. There is some clear tendency of the media and some of law enforcement to pay more attention to the wealthy white missing girl’s case than Lulu’s. The reader has to sit through some characters’ arguments for why immigrants are such a problem. Content note for both anti- and pro-immigration rhetoric. Also, explicit sex.
Even toward the end of the book I had a hard time getting truly engrossed. The action didn’t pick up until late, and it wasn’t particularly engaging. There’s a firefight involving at least six different sides, and it was good, but not breathtaking. Other than that, things were a bit unsatisfying.
Original review posted on my blog: http://www.errantdreams.com/2019/08/r...
July 27, 2020
This book is a fairly quick read - the action is fast paced and follows several narratives that all converge at the end. To me, the ending felt a bit abrupt. I would have enjoyed another chapter or two describing some of the fall-out of our event.
Of note: There are, about, a million characters in the book :) So if you are someone who has trouble keeping track of who's doing what (think Game of Thrones but not that scale) this might be a more challenging read.
I also enjoyed the detailing of the difference of covering a missing white girl vs. a missing BIPOC girl by the media. And by "enjoyed" I mean "THANK YOU FOR POINTING OUT THIS DIFFERENCE". The conversations between the various characters about the rights and roles of undocumented immigrants in America was also of great value and very much mirrored the conversations that have been going on under the 45th presidential administration.
Overall, it's a good book and I recommend that folks read it :)
Of note: There are, about, a million characters in the book :) So if you are someone who has trouble keeping track of who's doing what (think Game of Thrones but not that scale) this might be a more challenging read.
I also enjoyed the detailing of the difference of covering a missing white girl vs. a missing BIPOC girl by the media. And by "enjoyed" I mean "THANK YOU FOR POINTING OUT THIS DIFFERENCE". The conversations between the various characters about the rights and roles of undocumented immigrants in America was also of great value and very much mirrored the conversations that have been going on under the 45th presidential administration.
Overall, it's a good book and I recommend that folks read it :)
November 1, 2020
Suspenseful tale involving twin kidnappings, one with four murders. Deputy Buck Shelton is tasks with solving the murders and finding the missing young woman. There's plenty of action and fascinating characters. Murders, kidnappings, white supremacists and a magical totem in the form of an ancient carved statue of a beautiful woman. Highly recommended
December 29, 2019
4.0 stars!
March 23, 2020
3.5 stars.
April 9, 2021
Interesting story, but took me awhile to get through.
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