ABOUT THE BOOK:
The natives called them the 'Lost Girls'. They were German and French, Italian and Russian, Asian and American; young, beautiful women easily identified by a haunting tattoo burned onto their right cheek. While there had been sightings of these lost girls being driven through the rugged mountains of Hispaniola, none had ever escaped alive, leaving the secrets of their world intact. Stephanie Trahaney, a volunteer for the World Freedom Organization, had heard rumours of slave girls being trafficked to wealthy drug lords around the Caribbean. Determined to learn more, she sets out for the Dominican Republic to meet with a source willing to talk about the girls. When she goes missing and Rolly King George, detective sergeant of Jamaica's Special Constabulary Force, picks up the body of a young, blonde woman with the signature tattoo, floating off the island's coast, Sherry Moore is called. But when Sherry, the blind psychic renowned for her ability to see the last 18 seconds of a deceased person's memory, arrives in Jamaica to examine the body, all is not what it seems. The remains are not of Trahaney but of Jill Bishop, a 21-year-old American last seen in a bar in San Domingo's Colonial zone. Racked with grief but determined to know how her daughter died, Carol Bishop asks Sherry to take hold of Jill's hand. Sherry sets out on a frantic hunt for clues, from Santo Domingo where she must leave behind her friend and confidant, retired Admiral Garland Brigham, to the remote jungles of Haiti where she confronts a legendary voodoo priest, a man who has abilities eerily similar to her own.

Lost Girls is rather a gruesome story in parts where young women are captured to be used as sex slaves and mostly end up in Haiti. Investigative consultant Sherry Moore works on the case to track down the man behind the slave trade and she herself comes close to being captured. However it ends well. A book which is hard to put down.

Passed onto Goldenwattle.

I picked this up from Needle-n-Thread. Thank you.

My Review:
28/5/2011: Lately I have read several books with women being commodities and it's becoming annoying. This was another. Actually this was the worst of the examples, at least in the horror perpetuated. It was not the most effective though. Another book I read recently with females being used and abused by males made me angry and want to punish someone. This book in contrast just bored me. The writing needed a severe edit. I skimmed large sections. In the final part of the book Sherry became simplistic and naïve in her outlook with no reason to be.

The book is in Sydney with me.

I released this book among the flowers at Floriade, Parkes, ACT. Enjoy and do make a journal entry so we can follow this book's journey. We look forward to hearing the book has been found.
Floriade

This book is released for:
2011 Keep Them Moving Challenge


To the finder, enjoy, and I hope you will write a journal entry so that previous readers will know that this book has been found (even anonymously). It is always a joy to find where it has gone. Once you've read this book, pass it on to a friend, or set it out "in the wild" for someone else to find as you did.
You can remain anonymous but if you are interested in joining please consider using - Goldenwattle as your referrer.
When you pass this book along, please make a release note to let others know where you left it. Thank you.