A new missing persons case, a prime suspect and questions about an old friend challenge amateur sleuth and crime reporter Tess McClintock and FBI Special Agent Michael Carter in THE GIRL WHO RAN AWAY, the first book in the Girl Who Ran trilogy and a new book in the McClintock-Carter Crime Thriller Series. While Tess McClintock finishes writing her articles about Eugene Kincaid for the Seattle Sentinel, the girlfriend and daughter of an old college friend go missing. When their car turns up abandoned on a remote logging road in the mountains, Tess's friend becomes the prime suspect.  Tess and FBI Special Agent Michael Carter work together to discover whether her old friend is responsible for their disappearace.