New York Times Bestseller

Soon to be a Netflix film.

The bestselling account of the lives of five young women whose fates converged in the perplexing case of the Long Isle Serial Killer.

“Rich, tragic…monumental…true-crime reporting at its best.”-Washington Post

One late spring evening in 2010 2010, Shannan Gilbert-after running right through the oceanfront community of Oak Beach screaming for her life-went missing. No-one who had heard of her disappearance thought much about what acquired about Lost Ladies: An Unsolved American Secret happened to the twenty-four-year-old: she was a Craigslist escort who was simply fleeing a scene-of what, no-one could possibly be sure. The Suffolk County police, too, seemed to have paid little attention-until seven months later, when an urgent discovery in a bramble alongside a nearby highway turned up four systems, all consistently spaced, all covered in burlap. But none of these Shannan’s.

There is Maureen Brainard-Barnes, last seen at Penn Station in Manhattan three years earlier, and Melissa Barthelemy, last seen in the Bronx in ’09 2009. There was Megan Waterman, last noticed leaving a hotel in Hauppauge, Longer Island, just a month after Shannon’s disappearance this year 2010, and Amber Lynn Costello, last noticed leaving a house in Western world Babylon a few months later that same season. Like Shannan, all four women had been petite, in their twenties, and acquired come from out of city to are escorts, plus they all got publicized on Craigslist and its competitor, Backpage.

Long considered “one of the better true-crime books of all time” (Period), Lost Ladies is a portrait of unsolved murders in an idyllic section of America, of the lower of the web, and of the secrets we keep without admitting to ourselves that people keep them.