Little Girls Sleeping: An absolutely gripping crime thriller -- Jennifer Chase

<p><strong>He looked down at the little girl, sleeping peacefully, her arms wrapped around a teddy bear. He knew he was the only one who could save her. He could let her sleep forever.</strong><br /> <br /> An eight-year-old girl, Chelsea Compton, is missing in Pine Valley, California and for <strong>Detective Katie Scott</strong> it's a cruel reminder of the friend who disappeared from summer camp twenty years ago. Unable to shake the memories, Katie vows she won't rest until she discovers what happened to Chelsea.<br /> <br /> But as Katie starts to investigate, accompanied by her loyal ex-military dog, Cisco, the case reveals itself to be much bigger and more shocking than she feared. Hidden deep in the forest she unearths a makeshift cemetery: a row of graves, each with a brightly coloured teddy bear.<br /> <br /> Katie links the graves to a stack of missing-persons cases involving young girls--finding a pattern no one else has managed to see. Someone in Pine Valley has been taking the town's daughters for years, and Katie is the only one who can stop them.<br /> <br /> <strong>And then another little girl goes missing, snatched from the park near her home.</strong><br /> <br /> Katie's still haunted by the friend she failed to protect, and she'll do anything to stop the killer striking again--but can she find the little girl before it's too late?<br /> <br /> <strong>Compulsive and gripping crime fiction for fans of Lisa Regan, Rachel Caine and Melinda Leigh. Katie Scot