Lost girls : an unsolved American mystery
(Book)

First edition: 2014.

"A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2013 by HarperCollins Publishers." -- Verso.

"With a new afterword"--cover.

TV movie tie-in

"A Netflix film" -- cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

"A literary account of the lives and presumed serial killings of five "Craigslist" prostitutes, whose bodies were found on the same Long Island beach in 2010. Based on the New York Magazine cover story"--,Provided by publisher.

In 2010 four bodies, all evenly spaced, were discovered in a bramble alongside a highway in Suffolk County. All four women were petite, in their twenties, had come from out of town to work as escorts, and all had advertised on Craigslist and its competitor, Backpage. Kolker examines the underside of the internet, and the secrets we keep even from ourselves. This updated edition includes an afterword with the latest developments in the case. -- adapted from back cover

One late spring evening in 2010, Shannan Gilbertafter running through the oceanfront community of Oak Beach screaming for her lifewent missing. No one who had heard of her disappearance thought much about what had happened to the twenty-four-year-old: she was a Craigslist escort who had been fleeing a sceneof what, no one could be sure. The Suffolk County police, too, seemed to have paid little attentionuntil seven months later, when an unexpected discovery in a bramble alongside a nearby highway turned up four bodies, all evenly spaced, all wrapped in burlap. But none of them Shannans. There was Maureen Brainard-Barnes, last seen at Penn Station in Manhattan three years earlier, and Melissa Barthelemy, last seen in the Bronx in 2009. There was Megan Waterman, last seen leaving a hotel in Hauppauge, Long Island, just a month after Shannons disappearance in 2010, and Amber Lynn Costello, last seen leaving a house in West Babylon a few months later that same year. Like Shannan, all four women were petite, in their twenties, and had come from out of town to work as escorts, and they all had advertised on Craigslist and its competitor, Backpage. Lost Girls is a portrait of unsolved murders in an idyllic part of America, of the underside of the Internet, and of the secrets we keep without admitting to ourselves that we keep them. Long considered {28}one of the best true-crime books of all time