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Besides my family, my greatest love in life is books. Reading them, writing them, holding them, smelling them…well, you get the idea. I’ve always loved to read, and some of my earliest childhood memories are me, tucked away in my room, lost in a good book. I received a five dollar allowance each week, and I always — always — spent it on books. My love affair with writing started early, but it mostly involved journaling and writing silly poems. Several years ago, I didn’t have a book to read so I decided on a whim to write my own story, something I’d like to read. It turned out to be harder than I thought, but from that point on I was hooked. In addition to Have You Seen This Girl?, I'm the author of This Is Not About Love and Grayson’s Ridge, as well as upcoming books in the Flocksdale Files series: House of the Lost Girls and Carnival of Dead Girls. I’m a total genre-hopper. Basically, I like to write what I like to read: a little bit of everything! I reside in Floyds Knobs, Indiana with my husband, three children, and massive collection of books. I have a degree in psychology and worked as a counselor.
Reviewed by Jack Magnus for Readers' Favorite
Have You Seen This Girl: Flocksdale Files, Book 1 is a mystery/thriller written by Carissa Ann Lynch. When Wendi Wise was about to turn 13 years old, she told her parents that she didn’t want the birthday party they had always thrown for her each year. She was turning into a teenager, after all, and what she really wanted was a night at the movies in the mall with her best friend, Claire, and Claire’s big sister, Samantha. Samantha was only going at Wendi’s mother’s insistence, as an older presence, but Samantha had her own plans for the evening. Samantha would be meeting her boyfriend at the mall. Wendi and Claire would also be meeting up with two boys they had met earlier during the year. Joey and Zeke were not the kind of boys Wendi’s parents would really approve of. They weren’t clean cut and didn’t dress all that well, but Wendi was intrigued by Joey, and Claire liked Zeke. Neither of them expected that their little adventure would end up at the police station later that evening, resulting in Wendi being grounded for a month. But dating is a part of growing up, and when Claire arranges for the four of them to meet at a fictitious birthday party at a skating rink, Wendi dismisses her apprehensions and decides to go along.
Carissa Ann Lynch’s mystery/thriller, Have You Seen This Girl: Flocksdale Files, Book 1, is a suspenseful and entertaining story about a young woman’s attempt to get past the trauma of her abduction by a sex slavery ring when she was a child. Wendi’s story is a tragic one as she cycles in and out of rehab as she’s growing up, but her courage and resilience is ultimately quite inspiring. Lynch’s story reads like a memoir, and I often had to remind myself that Wendi was indeed a fictional character. The mystery surrounding her abduction is a compelling and well-plotted one, and the reader is kept guessing about the resolution till the very end. I enjoyed reading Have You Seen This Girl: Flocksdale Files, Book 1. It’s highly recommended.
