When We Go Missing
What if you found evidence of a crime, but no one believed you?
Seventeen-year-old Willow always has a camera around her neck. She volunteers as a photographer at Finding Home animal shelter.
When Willow finds a lost camera memory card, it’s filled with hundreds of photos of teenage girls. Some are smiling, others unaware, and a few seem terrified.
The police tell her taking photos in public isn’t a crime. But Willow can’t let it go, especially after she find her own photo on the card. She teams up with new volunteer Dare to figure out what happened to the girls. As their investigation heats up, so does the chemistry between them.
But everyone around Willow has a secret: Finding Home’s owner, her own mom, and even Dare.
When she learns that some of the girls on the camera card have gone missing, Willow realizes the unknown photographer might be a serial killer.
Can Willow find him before he finds her?
Inspiration
This book was very loosely inspired by two serial killers on girls they persuaded to "model" for them: the Dating Game Killer and the Beauty Queen Killer. The Dating Game Killer left behind a stash of hundreds of photographs of young women, most of whom have never been identified. In fact, a few years ago the police tried publicizing the photos again, and one woman recognized one as a photo of her long-missing sister. In the background were mountains, and when authorities identified to the spot where the photo had been taken, they went there. They found the young woman had been buried there, probably not long after that smiling photo was taken.
Willow volunteers at an animal shelter, which was very loosely modeled on Animal Aid, a house turned animal shelter where my daughter volunteered.
Reviews
Seventeen-year-old Willow loves photography and animals, so her volunteer job as photographer for the animal shelter Finding Home is the perfect fit. Since the shelter is underfunded and understaffed, she also knows how to do every other job. While out walking one of the shelter dogs, she finds a camera card, and when she looks at it to see if she can figure out to whom it belongs, she is disturbed to see it is filled with pictures of young women, some of whom look frightened. The police aren’t very interested in it, so Willow, along with new volunteer Dare, decide to investigate. When she learns that a few of the girls are actually missing, she is sure that there may be a serial killer on the loose. The police are still not interested, so she tries to get the killer’s attention on her own. The fast-paced plot is narrated from three perspectives: Willow, Dare, and the serial killer, which keeps the pages turning. Known for her deeply suspenseful novels, Henry has done it again.
—Booklist
Seventeen-year-old Willow always has a camera around her neck. She volunteers as a photographer at Finding Home animal shelter.
When Willow finds a lost camera memory card, it’s filled with hundreds of photos of teenage girls. Some are smiling, others unaware, and a few seem terrified.
The police tell her taking photos in public isn’t a crime. But Willow can’t let it go, especially after she find her own photo on the card. She teams up with new volunteer Dare to figure out what happened to the girls. As their investigation heats up, so does the chemistry between them.
But everyone around Willow has a secret: Finding Home’s owner, her own mom, and even Dare.
When she learns that some of the girls on the camera card have gone missing, Willow realizes the unknown photographer might be a serial killer.
Can Willow find him before he finds her?
Inspiration
This book was very loosely inspired by two serial killers on girls they persuaded to "model" for them: the Dating Game Killer and the Beauty Queen Killer. The Dating Game Killer left behind a stash of hundreds of photographs of young women, most of whom have never been identified. In fact, a few years ago the police tried publicizing the photos again, and one woman recognized one as a photo of her long-missing sister. In the background were mountains, and when authorities identified to the spot where the photo had been taken, they went there. They found the young woman had been buried there, probably not long after that smiling photo was taken.
Willow volunteers at an animal shelter, which was very loosely modeled on Animal Aid, a house turned animal shelter where my daughter volunteered.
Reviews
Seventeen-year-old Willow loves photography and animals, so her volunteer job as photographer for the animal shelter Finding Home is the perfect fit. Since the shelter is underfunded and understaffed, she also knows how to do every other job. While out walking one of the shelter dogs, she finds a camera card, and when she looks at it to see if she can figure out to whom it belongs, she is disturbed to see it is filled with pictures of young women, some of whom look frightened. The police aren’t very interested in it, so Willow, along with new volunteer Dare, decide to investigate. When she learns that a few of the girls are actually missing, she is sure that there may be a serial killer on the loose. The police are still not interested, so she tries to get the killer’s attention on her own. The fast-paced plot is narrated from three perspectives: Willow, Dare, and the serial killer, which keeps the pages turning. Known for her deeply suspenseful novels, Henry has done it again.
—Booklist