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Last Seen

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Detective Michael O'Higgins and Detective Marvin Lee In August, San Francisco is a cold beauty...and the perfect place for a killer targeting young women visiting the Bay Area. The latest victim is Emma Barre, a deaf French teenager. Emma is also brilliant and due to enter one of France's best universities. But Emma, just seventeen, has disappeared while visiting the City's famous Pier 39 with her parents. The extremely well known and heavily visited tourist attraction is the site of all the killer's previous abductions. Somehow, this psychopath is able to spirit his victims away despite the attraction being full of visitors from all over the world. Her only hope is troubled SFPD Detective Michael O'Higgins, currently taking Acid as part of an experimental program for PSTD patients. but can O'Higgins see clearly enough to track down an elusive killer, or will mind-altering substances prevent him from doing his sworn duty? As O'Higgins closes in, he will come face-to-face with both the trauma that ruptured his own life, and a killer hell-bent on ending that of a young girl. LAST SEEN is a riveting novel of suspense that packs an emotional wallop—think Fellini meets Elmore Leonard with a soundtrack by Nina Simone. Buckle up...
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    • Library Journal

      April 1, 2021

      In the second "Michael O'Higgins" novel (after Last Ferry Home), SFPD detectives Michael O'Higgins and Marvin Lee grapple with personal traumas while they hunt for Emma Barre, a French teen with a hearing impairment, who appears to be the latest victim of a serial killer abducting European girls from San Francisco's tourist hot spots. Harrington juggles multiple story lines, including a recent botched police operation that left Lee wounded, Lee's wife Cassie's secret earlier life as a sex worker, and Lee and O'Higgins both seeking solace in alcohol. O'Higgins deals with multiple issues--including his war experience, the death of his wife, recently learning that he was adopted, and his daughter's departure to college--by microdosing LSD. VERDICT The book's gritty and violent realism reads like the San Francisco cousin to James Lee Burke's "Dave Robicheaux" series, but with plot convolutions that feel like melodrama (Cassie's story line moves quickly from unlikely into the realm of unbelievable). The lead character, O'Higgins, never develops beyond his collection of personal issues, leaving the book without a captivating core. While Harrington (The Good Physician) is an author to watch, this ambitious police procedural is ultimately unsuccessful.--Jon Jeffryes, Grand Valley State University, MI

      Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 21, 2021
      In Harrington’s middling sequel to 2018’s Last Ferry Home, San Francisco homicide cop Michael O’Higgins and his partner, Marvin Lee, have no meaningful leads in the case of what the press has dubbed the Seven Hills Killer, who has abducted, raped, and murdered three teenage tourists. When a 17-year-old French girl is abducted, Seven Hills, who has been texting O’Higgins random questions, demands $12 million in ransom for her safe return from her eminent parents, a physicist and a historian, the change in m.o. offers some hope. Meanwhile, Lee is distracted by the revelation that his wife was once a prostitute, though he’s spared her other secret—that she’s also a hit woman , and her handler wants her to poison a man with polonium. Besides this distracting subplot, readers should be prepared for some awkward prose (“It was a look he would never forget: femininity laced with intelligence swamped by fear and horror, emotions/colors all intertwined and encased—and at the very bottom, hope”). Harrington brings nothing new to the serial killer hunt.

    • Booklist

      July 21, 2021
      Echoing the mantra of Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch that ""everyone counts or no one counts,"" San Francisco police detective Michael O'Higgins follows his own mantra, ""the murder of one is the murder of all."" This time the ""one murder"" may be that of Emma Barre, a deaf teenager who has vanished from Pier 39, one of the city's most popular tourist destinations. She's not the first to disappear in this manner, and O'Higgins and his partner, Marvin Lee, are determined to find her alive, unlike the previous abductee. But to be able to do that, both O'Higgins and Lee must come to terms with their own damaged psyches. O'Higgins is still dealing with the PTSD he has been fighting since the death of his wife in a sailing accident, and Lee is trying to recover from the trauma of almost being killed in a shootout. Complicating matters are the skeletons in the closet of Lee's wife, Cassie, whose secret past as a call girl has come back to haunt her. From his superb noir D�a de los Muertos (1997) through the first O'Higgins novel, Last Ferry Home (2018), Harrington has excelled at portraying damaged souls in a damaged world. He's back at it this time and working at the top of his game. There's a ray of hope this time, though, as Cassie and Emma, who takes center stage in scenes set during her captivity, display striking resilience in confronting their respective demons, both internal and external.

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