LAST SEEN LEAVING, by Kelly Braffet

(originally posted on September 15, 2006)

Some may remember how much I flipped for Braffet's creepy, wonderfully written debut JOSIE AND JACK. Her second book opens up the action much more in its exploration of disappearances old and new, the tenuous tendrils that link mothers and daughters and the horror that lurks in every corner, no matter how innocuous the setting may be. Braffet has a real gift and it's only going to develop and mature over the course of her career.