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Title: There Was a Little Girl

Author: Cynthia Luhrs

Narrator: Melissa Sternenberg

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-16

Publisher: Cynthia J. Luhrs

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Psychological

Publisher's Summary:

There Was a Little Girl is a psychological thriller that will have you taking a closer look at the people you thought you knew.

No one is what they seem.

Katherine Hope Jones is a seemingly normal woman with a well-paying job. The horror of her childhood carefully hidden away. But after she witnesses an act of animal cruelty, her tightly constructed world comes crashing down as past and present collide.

You never know who's watching.

As the lies pile up and she desperately tries to maintain two identities, a smart animal control officer has discovered something disturbing. Someone is killing animal abusers. Hope slowly unravels from an upstanding citizen into something else. Vigilante. Champion. Killer. Hero.

As Hope takes incredible risks to punish the guilty, she's blind to the danger closing in around her. For someone powerful and dangerous has taken notice of what she's been up to.

Everyone has a line they won't cross...until they do.

Members Reviews:

THERE WAS A LITTLE GIRL by Cynthia Luhrs

*****SPOILER ALERT*****

Great novel!! I would have rated it a "5" but for the fact that it was a bit too long. After the 9th killing, I lost a bit of my enthusiasm for the reading. Also, what professional "hit man" would drive around in a black Maserati while on the job? I would think he'd want to be invisible and unremarkable, and drive around in some nondescript vehicle like a Toyota Camry. There were some small typos and minor grammatical errors, but nothing distracting.

All in all, it was a terrific read! What a unique idea Ms. Luhrs came up with for this novel! A vigilante killer who takes out men & women who abuse animals! As I read about the killings of 13 men & women, I was continually thinking---"Let the punishment fit the crime. " Although shooting animal abusers is not an appropriate punishment for this crime, I found myself rooting for Hope, hoping (no pun intended) she'd not be found by the police, even though I know her actions were WRONG. The people she killed were such scum, I found myself rooting for Hope each time she executed another criminal.

Ms. Luhrs painted a realistic picture of a woman who devolved from "sweet" and "kind" into a cold-blooded killer. Her change was believable although sudden. She went from an upward bound career woman with a wealthy boyfriend to an anti-social misfit who lost both job & boyfriend because of her conscious choices, and devolution into the dark side. Every time she killed another animal abuser, she was killing her father. She did this because she never went through therapy after her mother's murder. She never came to terms with the horrific trauma of her childhood. She took that experience and shut it away in a dark corner of her mind, and hid the key. A very unhealthy thing to do when traumatized, as Ms. Luhrs demonstrates in her excellent novel.

I bought this book a few days ago; it was on sale for .99.

It appears there will be no sequel, but I wish there was. I'd like to read the continuing story of Hope's life, to see if she can rise above her destructive actions, and reclaim her goodness.

I'll be looking to buy more of Cynthia Luhrs' novels.

For the Love of the Helpless......

This was a really different book.