An intrepid journalist confronts a college town’s dark secrets in this series debut—a breakneck thriller for fans of Tess Gerritsen and Julia Keller. At Indiana University, someone’s been studying the female student body: their dating customs, nocturnal activities—and how long they can survive in captivity. When award-winning journalist Caitlin Bergman is invited back to campus to receive an honorary degree, she finds an opportunity for a well-earned victory lap—and a chance to face the trauma that almost destroyed her as an undergrad. But her lap becomes an all-out race when a student begs her to probe an unsolved campus disappearance: Angela Chapman went out one Friday night and never came back. To find the missing woman, Caitlin must join forces with a local police detective and the department that botched her own case so long ago. But while Caitlin follows the clues behind Angela’s disappearance, someone else is following her... "August Norman’s Come and Get Me peels the top layer off a bucolic, Midwestern college town and reveals the dark heart of a mystery beating underneath. This is a fast-paced, propulsive thriller, the first in a wonderful new series featuring dynamic journalist Caitlin Bergman. How long until we can read the next one?"—David Bell, USA Today bestselling author of Somebody’s Daughter
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Summary Short: Journalist goes back to the college town where she was raped years ago and gets involved in the case of a missing girl.
The book starts out with Caitlin Bergman going back to the university she fled twenty years ago to receive her diploma. An author now, her impromptu speech to the student body is a shocker. She admits that, before she suddenly left, a young man she knew and trusted violently raped her and left her for dead.
She meant only to come back for a short time to receive the diploma and do a book signing for her new book. And maybe in the back of her head, she is really just searching for closure to that night so long ago. But when a body is found, she is quickly dragged into wanting to know what happened to another college girl who has been missing for two years.
I liked Caitlin. She runs in the morning, she drinks at night. She isn't the perfect person. And she cares for others. Her long-lost best friend and her husband, the missing girl's best friend and mother, and a new love interest. Following Caitlin as she investigates is definitely interesting and I wasn't prepared for the ending and how she deals with being trapped by a man again. I would definitely read this author again.
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1 primary bookCaitlin Bergman is a 1-book series first released in 2019 with contributions by August Norman.