{"id":24365,"date":"2026-06-05T03:21:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=24365"},"modified":"2026-06-05T04:54:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:54:30","slug":"book-29-of-52-girl-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/book-29-of-52-girl-forgotten\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 29 (of 52) &#8211; Girl, Forgotten"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24366\" style=\"width: 340px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/girlforgotten.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24366\" class=\"wp-image-24366 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/girlforgotten.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/girlforgotten.jpg 330w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/girlforgotten-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Girl, Forgotten &#8211; Karin Slaughter<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Andrea Oliver, fresh out of training to be a US Marshall, finds herself with an unusual assignment: protecting a federal judge while secretly investigating the 40-year-old death of the judge&#8217;s daughter, with her imprisoned father as the chief suspect.\u00a0 With her new partner kept in the dark, Andrea tries to straddle the two tasks, but everyone and everything seems to conspire to bring the two together. Once she learns the truth about who is threatening the judge, the pieces of the other case fall into place.<\/p>\n<p>In her follow-up to 2018&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/book-13-of-52-pieces-of-her\/\"><em>Pieces of Her<\/em><\/a>, Karin Slaughter picks back up the story of Andrea Oliver, now a newly minted US Marshall, in <em>Girl, Forgotten<\/em>.\u00a0 It was interesting to revisit this character as she tries to find her place in the world following the events of the first book.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure if there is more coming or if this was the end of the line, but Slaughter never disappoints and she&#8217;s sure to be back on my Kindle sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea Oliver, fresh out of training to be a US Marshall, finds herself with an unusual assignment: protecting a federal judge while secretly investigating the 40-year-old death of the judge&#8217;s daughter, with her imprisoned father as the chief suspect.\u00a0 With her new partner kept in the dark, Andrea tries to straddle the two tasks, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[12652,8099,2889,10276],"class_list":["post-24365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-girl-forgotten","tag-karin-slaughter","tag-kindle","tag-pieces-of-her"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24365"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24370,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24365\/revisions\/24370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}