Southern setting
Child narrator
Missing local young woman
Small town
Gritty
Published in last 25 years
Beautiful missing girl
Southern setting
Child narrator
Missing local young woman
Small town
Gritty
Published in last 25 years
Beautiful missing girl
The Floating Girls?
“At once wickedly funny and heartbreaking, perfect for fans of Kim Michele Richardson, The Floating Girls is a stunning southern mystery, a wonderfully atmospheric coming-of-age family drama told from the perspective of a fierce 12-year-old marsh girl―reminiscent of a modern-day Scout Finch―as she unravels the secrets that threaten her entire family.”
Thanks, but that’s not it.
Wolf Hollow? There’s a missing girl in that one, although I don’t know if she was beautiful so much as she was nasty.
This one’s adult fiction for sure.