TY - BOOK AU - Gardner,Lisa TI - Before She Disappeared SN - 9781524745066 U1 - 813/.54 23 PY - 2021/// CY - [New York, New York] PB - Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC KW - Missing persons KW - Fiction KW - Women private investigators KW - Police KW - Massachusetts KW - Boston KW - Cold cases (Criminal investigation) KW - Recovering alcoholics KW - Alcoholics KW - Boston (Mass.) KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - fast KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - lcgft N2 - A recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings, Frankie Elkin has devoted her life to doing what no one else will--searching for the lost and forgotten. When the police have moved on, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking. A new case brings her to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough reputation. She is searching for Angelique Badeau, a Haitian teenager who vanished from her high school months earlier. Resistance from the Boston PD and the victims wary family tells Frankie shes on her own--and she soon learns shes asking questions someone doesnt want answered. But Frankie will risk it all to discover the truth, even if it means the next person to go missing could be her ER -