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I listened to Girl Last Seen, by Nina Laurin, narrated by Vanessa Johansson. I'd been looking forward to this one, but it was another disappointment. The protagonist--who'd been held captive and abused for three years as a child--is extremely damaged some ten years later when she's drawn into the case of another missing girl. While the long-lasting damage may have been realistically portrayed, she was an unlikable character and I didn't want to be spending time with her.
Also highly annoying, a revelation fairly early on about the newly missing girl set off loud alarm bells for me, but not for the characters--one of them a police detective, who had to be stupid not to see the significance. It was something that should have set them on an obvious path of investigation, but they were oblivious and went on blithely spinning their wheels.
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