The Sleeping Girls: An absolutely addictive crime thriller packed with pulse-pou

<p><strong>The young girl looked like a sleeping angel, golden hair fanned across the pillow, eyes closed, pale lips pressed together. A white teddy bear was tucked under her slender arm. "My baby, she's dead..." her distraught mother choked out.</strong></p><p><em> </em></p><p>When the call comes in that fifteen-year-old <strong>Kelsey Tiller</strong> has gone missing from her bedroom in the middle of the night, <strong>Detective Ellie Reeves</strong> rushes to talk to her distraught parents. They insist that their daughter would have no reason to run away, but when neighbors report seeing Kelsey with a secret boyfriend, Ellie wonders how much Kelsey really told her parents.</p><p> </p><p>Ellie is determined to find Kelsey's boyfriend and interviews her friends and teachers at school. But just as she is making headway with the case, she receives some devastating news. Kelsey's parents have received a photo of their daughter lying on a bed with white sheets over her body, her precious life snuffed out.</p><p> </p><p>Desperate to find answers for those who loved Kelsey, Ellie studies the picture and realizes that her body has been posed in the same way as a teenage girl murdered ten years earlier. And when she learns Darnell, the killer in that case, has just been released from prison, fear crawls through her. Could Darnell have stolen another innocent life?</p><p> </p><p>But just as Ellie thinks she has cracked the case, Kelsey's best friend <strong>Ruby</strong> is snatched