The Girl No One Looked For

In Granton, some girls disappear long before anyone reports them missing.Mara Keene is twenty-four, works irregular shifts around the port, and knows too much about the kind of places respectable men pretend not to visit. When she vanishes after a minor police raid at a waterfront bar, the official version is clean, convenient, and almost believable: she left on her own.Detective Jack Doyle doesn't believe in clean stories.Neither does Nora Blake, the sharp young reporter who knows Granton's silences are never accidental.Seventeen missing minutes from a security camera. A phone abandoned where it should never have been. A terrified coworker who won't talk. A black car leaving through the rain. And behind it all, a network of private security firms, port executives, gray lawyers, compromised cops, and women who came back silent-when they came back at all.This time Doyle isn't investigating a body.He's racing to find out whether Mara is still alive.As Doyle and Nora dig deeper into the port's hidden machinery, they uncover a system built to erase women no one powerful wanted to look for. But the case also opens a door Doyle has spent years trying to keep shut: the old Fallon case, the failure that ruined his career, his marriage, and the last clean part of himself.Grim, fast, atmospheric, and laced with razor-sharp dialogue, The Girl No One Looked For is the second Jack Doyle noir thriller-a dark urban crime novel about corruption, silence, survival, and the price of searching for the people the world has already chosen to forget.For readers who like damaged detectives, dangerous reporters, corrupt cities, cold rain, buried evidence, and crime fiction with a hard emotional edge.

Pages: 325, Paperback, Independently published