Yesterday's Gone by Janice Kay Johnson is a study in how an evil person can damage an individual, a family, and a way of life that is uniquely American. When Detective Seth Chandler sets out to solve a cold case of abduction of a six year old girl, he uses the latest techniques in producing a picture of the girl age progressed to be an adult. He then sets the picture adrift on the internet, hoping to find someone who recognizes the missing woman. No one is more surprised than he is when the girl, Bailey Smith, shows up at the police station asking for him. She doesn't remember her name, her family, or where she is from, but she does remember the man who terrorized her for years and then abandoned her when she was eleven. After years in counseling while living in homes, she finally decides to take control of her own life, gets a good job as a waitress and goes to college. Then she sees the picture of Hope, and comes to see if this might be where she is from. From this point on the story gets really complex as Bailey finds it very hard to be with her family, who expect her to remember everything, and Seth sets off to see if he can find more of the victims of her abductor. Bailey and Seth are thrown together, and come to find each other compelling companions. The search turns up another younger victim and together they remember enough about the abductor that he is finally arrested, with another even younger girl in his car.
This book follows the life of a very good policeman, as many of Johnson's books do, but it shows just how much harm a truly evil man can do to a series of very young girls. You will be entertained and educated at the same time.
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