Read An Excerpt From 'Girl, 11' by Amy Suiter Clarke

In Amy Suiter Clarke’s gripping debut novel Girl, 11, a social worker turned true crime podcaster investigates a decades-old serial killer cold case — only to unwittingly create new victims. It’s right up the alley of the millions of fans of the hit podcast My Favorite Murder, readers of I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara, or devotees of authors like Karin Slaughter, Riley Sager or Lisa Jewell. Intrigued? Read on to discover the synopsis and an excerpt from Girl, 11, which is out now!

Elle Castillo once trained as a social worker, supporting young victims of violent crime. Now she hosts a popular true crime podcast that focuses on cold cases of missing and abducted children.

After four seasons of successfully solving these cases in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, Elle decides to tackle her white whale: The Countdown Killer. Twenty years ago, TCK was terrorizing the community, kidnapping and ritualistically murdering three girls over seven days, each a year younger than the last. Then, after he took his eleven-year-old victim, the pattern—and the murders—abruptly stopped. No one has ever known why.

When Elle follows up on a listener tip only to discover the man’s dead body, she feels at fault. Then, within days, a child is abducted—a young girl who seems to fit suspiciously into the TCK sequence halted decades before. While media and law enforcement long ago concluded that TCK had suicided, Elle has never believed TCK was dead. She had hoped her investigation would lay that suspicion to rest, but her podcast seems instead to be inciting new victims.