The Fallen Girls

Detective Clara Jefferies, Book 1

By: Kathryn Casey

Narrated by: Lisa Rost-Welling

She didn’t notice the corn stalks shiver a few feet to her right. By the time she looked up, the man towered above her. In a single movement he wrapped one thick hand around her waist, the other he clamped over her mouth, muffling her screams.

Detective Clara Jefferies has spent years running from her childhood in Alber, Utah. But when she hears that her baby sister Delilah has disappeared, she knows that the peaceful community will be shattered, her family vulnerable, and that that she must face up to her past and go home.

Clara returns to find that her mother, Ardeth, has isolated her family by moving to the edge of town, in the shadow of the mountains. Ardeth refuses to talk to the police and won’t let Clara through the front door, believing she and her sister-wives can protect their own. But Clara knows better than anyone that her mother isn’t always capable of protecting her children.

When Clara finds out that two more girls have disappeared, all last seen around the cornfields near her family’s home, she realizes it’s not just Delilah who’s in danger. And then she gets a call that a body has been found...

Clara will have to dig deep into the town’s secrets if she’s going to find Delilah. But that will mean confronting the reason she left. And as she gets closer to Delilah, she might be putting her more at risk...

Gripping and spine-chilling, listeners will love Detective Clara Jefferies, listening to The Fallen Girls deep into the night.

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Excellent story and loved the narrator! Easy to fo

Excellent story line...Kept me interested and loved the narrator's voice. Definitely be looking for her next book!

I actually digged this book.

This is an interesting book. The main character has some baggage that wasn't disclosed but from the context clues you can figure it out. Her character development didn't show up until the last five minutes of the book. All through the book Claire was an over the top island of one and flat. She grated on my nerves and could have been attributed to the narrator. There were two audio glitches of sentences being repeated. Overall a good listen and a small peek into a world I would I otherwise no.

Really enjoyed this story

Definitely waiting for book two. The thrill of who was being hunted had me on the esge of my seat. loved this

very good 😊

It was a good listen with a twist at the end. Not a fabulous book, but a very good mystery.

A good experience

I like this character. The creepy world of the FLDS is unmasked. Polygamy is revealed to be basically a group of women raising children together. If this is based on Warren Jeff’s then it isn’t accurate—girls in that cult stop their education at 4th grade… they don’t get to go to high school. I liked that the character has more than one dimension—she solves the case but will never get her mother’s love. She doesn’t meet the man of her dreams. I think it’s pretty amazing how times have changed. In the 90s female cops were thought to be too threatening to men and could never get a date. Now law enforcement looks like the Love Boat. This character humbly goes about her job and is not annoying. It would be nice if she had a sense of humor but I guess you can’t have too much fun if you are so holy. She doesn’t actually get a great guy— only a reboot with her boyfriend from high school.

Enjoyed Learning About this Lifestyle and the Mystery

I really enjoyed this book. I am looking forward to her next book. She had me guessing until the end and I learned a lot.

Slow start

Although this book does not grab your attention by page 1 it has a decent ending. The subject matter does unsettle me because I know it is a possibly that it could be based on actual events.

Okay story but could have been so much better

It could have been a good book, living in Utah and knowing the culture of both the mainstream and fundamentalist churches, it is obvious that the author has never been to utah and has seen a few articles or done basic research on the flds culture but has no real understanding of it. An extreme fundamentalist would never name a girl Delilah. Many references to the religion are completely off base. usually when an author writes about a subject in a fictional setting they know about it, making it enjoyable to read. she is a good author but should have written about a place or people she knows well.

1st time reading this author

enjoyed book, always enjoy listening to Lisa Rost-Welling getting ready for book number 2

Bad is an understatement

This book is so terrible and juvenile. Not to mention the narrator is awful and sounds like a young kid. Not sure how I finished this book.