Description: A TEEN DISAPPEARS. A BRUTALIZED BODY IS FOUND. IS A TWISTED KILLER PREYING UPON YOUNG GIRLS; OR, HAS THE DARK PAST OF THIS COZY NEW ENGLAND TOWN EXPOSED HIDDEN EVIL LIVING AMONG THEM?
Brief description: True-crime analyst, creator/executive producer and former host of Investigation Discovery's DARK MINDS (2011 -2014), M. William Phelps is the New York Times best-selling author of 42 nonfiction books and winner of the Excellence in (Investigative) Journalism Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. THE GIRL LEFT BEHIND is his first thriller-a book based on a career's worth of missing person cases he's investigated. Following loosely to his iHeartRadio podcast, "Paper Ghosts," this first novel in a series unites his 20 years of experience working in true-crime, having consulted on the popular Showtime series "Dexter," along with his eight years interviewing serial murderer Keith "Happy Face Killer" Jesperson. Phelps has made over 300 hours' worth of appearances on television: KILLER COUPLES, WICKED ATTRACTION, ICE COLD KILLERS, EVIL STEP MOMS, TWISTED, DEADLY WOMEN, SNAPPED, and many more. TV Rage says, "M. William Phelps dares to tread where few others will. . ."
Review Quotes: "M. William Phelps dares to tread where few others will: into the mind of a killer."
-TV Rage "Phelps is the Harlan Coben of real-life thrillers."-Allison Brennan on TOO YOUNG TO KILL "A chilling crime...award-winning author Phelps goes into lustrous and painstaking detail, bringing all the players vividly to life."-Crime Magazine on NEVER SEE THEM AGAIN"Phelps gets into the blood and guts of the story."-Gregg Olsen, New York Times bestselling author of Fear Collector on KILL FOR ME "Phelps expertly reminds us that when the darkest form of evil invades the quiet and safe outposts of rural America, the tragedy is greatly magnified. Get ready for some sleepless nights."-Carlton Stowers on MURDER IN THE HEARTLAND "M. William Phelps is the rising star of the nonfiction crime genre, and his true tales of murder are scary-as-hell thrill rides into the dark heart of the inhuman condition."-Douglas Clegg on EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE "Readers will be rewarded with shocking television-worthy twists in a story with inherent drama."-Publishers Weekly on OBSESSED