They were held in brutal captivityand managed to make it out alive.
This is their story.
The Lost Girls are Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesusthree innocent young women who were kidnapped, imprisoned, and repeatedly molested and beaten in a Cleveland home basement for over a decade by a depraved man named Ariel Castro. Their incredible escape, in May 2013, made headlines all over the world.
Absorbing&a page-turning, detailed overview of this remarkable story.
Kirkus Reviews
In this up-close-and-personal accountincluding exclusive interviews with Castros family members, secret girlfriend, neighbors, and othersveteran investigative journalist John Glatt reveals what it was like as Michelle, Amanda, and Gina waited, bound and chained, to be found. Shocking and heartbreaking,The Lost Girlsis a true-crime tale that no reader will soon forget.
John Glatt is one of the finest true crime craftsmen writing today.
Howard Goldberg, VH1.com
With 8 pages of chilling photos
English-born
John Glattis the author of
Lost and Found,
Secrets in the Cellar,
Playing with Fire, and many other bestselling books of true crime. He has more than 30 years of experience as an investigative journalist in England and America. Glatt left school at 16 and worked a variety of jobsincluding tea boy and messengerbefore joining a small weekly newspaper. He freelanced at several English newspapers, then in 1981 moved to New York, where he joined the staff for News Limited and freelanced for publications including Newsweek and the New York Post. His first book, a biography of Bill Graham, was published in 1981, and he published
For I Have Sinned, his first book of true crime, in 1998. He has appeared television and radio programs all over the world, including Dateline NBC, Fox News, Current Affair, BBC World, and A&E Biography. He and his wife Gail divide thl“T