Lost Girls

Blind psychic Sherry Moore returns to comb the Caribbean for the murderous kingpin of a human trafficking network.

In Lost Girls, bestselling author George D. Shuman's riveting new thriller, beautiful blind psychic Sherry Moore becomes embroiled in her most perilous and disturbing case to date, and fins that the lives of hundreds of women hang in the balance.

Sherry Moore would do anything for her confidant and best friend, retired Admiral Garland Brigham. So when he suddenly asks her to assist the US Navy in a daring high-altitude rescue on Mount McKinley, she doesn't hesitate and soon finds herself flying across the country to hang vertically off an Alaskan cliff, tethered to Captain Brian Metclaf.

Sherry, renowned for her ability to see the last 18 seconds of a deceased person's memory, takes the hand of a dead climber, hoping to ascertain the whereabouts of his missing climbing team. But what she sees leaves her with visions that will haunt her long past Alaska.

While rumours of slave girls being trafficked around the Caribbean have circulated for years, little credible evidence has been uncovered about these 'lost girls'. When detective inspector Rolly King George recovers the body of a young blonde woman, naked except for a shocking tattoo branded onto her cheek, he knows she may hold the key to toppling this criminal underworld. Through delicate back-channel negotiations, Sherry arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, to see the deceased and finds that things are more complicated than she thought: the remains are of Jill Bishop, an American teenager last seen in a Santo Domingo marketplace.

Carol Bishop, relentless in her pursuit to find out how her daughter died, and Sherry, the distressing images from Mount McKinley still fresh in her memory, embark on a frantic hunt for clues from the Dominican Republic to the remote jungles of Haiti, racing against time to save others from Jill's fate. Along the way, Sherry must confront a legendary voodoo priest, who possesses abilities eerily similar to her own, and take on a man whose depraved practices gives new meaning to the word 'evil'.

George D. Shuman is a 25-year veteran of the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police force, where he served as an undercover narcotics detective; a sergeant in the Special Assignments Branch, Internal Affairs Division; operations commander of the Metropolitan Police Academy; and lieutenant commander in the Public Integrity Branch, Internal Affairs Division. His first novel 18 Seconds has been transalted into 19 languages and was nominated Best First Novel by the International Thrillers Association. His critically acclaimed follow-up novel Last Breath was released in 2007.

Lost Girls
Simon and Schuster Australia
Author: George D. Shuman
ISBN: 9780731813797
Price: $29.95