Lost Girls by George D. Shuman
Sherry Moore is Thrust into the Realm of Human Traficking
Sep 29, 2008
Sherry Moore may be blind, but she can "see" more than more people. She has a unique gift (or well-developed skill) that enables her to see in her mind the last 30 seconds of a deceased person's memory. This is not always a welcome or pleasant view, but when her best friend and confidante, retired Admiral Garland Brigham asks her to fly half way across the world to the slopes of Alaska's Mt. McKinley, she doesn't hesitate. Within an hour she is on a private plane beside US Navy Captain Brian Metcalf, whose sister has been lost in a violent storm on the mountain.
Rescue and Recovery
Very soon Captain Metcalf is leading along the side of the treacherous, snowy mountain to where his sister's climbing companion lies dead hanging from his ropes. The hope--and the reason Moore has made the cross-country journey--is that his last seconds will give some clue as to where the other three climbers dug in during the storm. She learns that...and so much more that she didn't expect.
Terror in the Caribbean
Moore can't let the visions of rape and torture in a tropical fortress that she "witnessed" go unreported, but with no location and little to go on, the information sits dormant until a young woman is reported missing in the Dominican Republic after a shore excursion from a cruise ship. That the woman is the daughter of a wealthy US businessman and that her mother is fierce in her determination to find her keeps the case in the news. Soon Moore and her friends are drawn into lawless Haiti (adjacent to the Dominican Republic) and a terrifying web of human trafficking, torture, and deceit.
Lost Girls is a very well-written novel that draws the reader in from page one and carries one's attention to the end of its 240 pages. The subject matter is dark and at times disturbing, but the Sherry Moore character continues to evolve and develop in this third book, leaving at least this reader eager for the fourth installment.
About George D. Shuman
George D. Shuman worked for the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department for 20 years and had a successful second career as a resort executive before his first novel, 18 Seconds, was published in 2006. This first effort was nominated for a Shamus and a Best First Novel Thriller Award. Last Breath, his second novel, was published in 2007. Mr. Shuman divides his time between North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
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