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The Girls Before: A Novel

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Release Date
February 24, 2026
Duration
10 hours 8 minutes
Summary
A search & rescue expert. A kidnapped woman. The lost girls who haunt them both.

'Veteran narrator [Karissa] Vacker performs the novel skillfully.... Her soothing voice, clarity, and intonation draw the listener into the story, while her convincing performance of Theo will hold their attention until the very last syllable.' —Booklist on A Killing Cold (Starred Review)

There is a girl in a basement.
The door has stopped opening.
The light is gone.

Stranger is trapped in the dark, with only her imagination and the scribbles on the wall left by long-dead girls to keep her company. Nearly out of food and water, she makes one last attempt to escape. But if the door opens at last, will it mean salvation, or only the beginning of her fight to survive?

Audrey is a search and rescue expert who never stopped looking for her ex-best friend, Janie, who disappeared when they were teenagers. Janie used to love the local legend of a forest witch who saves girls from bad men, but Audrey knows now that for every one saved, there’s always another one lost. When she stumbles upon evidence in the forest that a teenage runaway might have actually been kidnapped from land belonging to the town’s most prominent family, she will have to dig through decades of secrets to reveal the biggest one of all: what happened to the girls before.

Kate Alice Marshall, bestselling author of What Lies in the Woods, No One Can Know, and A Killing Cold, is back with the thrilling new novel Ashley Winstead calls, 'magnetic, shocking, heartbreaking, and unputdownable.'

'Narrator Karissa Vacker, with scores of audiobooks under her belt, provides a pitch-perfect performance... [her] voice is a solid touchstone guiding listeners through shocks and twists.' —Booklist on What Lies in the Woods

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Profile Avatar Anonymous Apr 2026

It took several chapters in to get me listening 6every chance I could. The twist in it turn out to just make it better and unsettling at the same time.

The Girls Before: A Novel

The Girls Before: A Novel

Author: Kate Alice Marshall
Read by: Ina Barrón
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