Vengeance · Book 2

The Boy She Left Behind

Published
1 January 2017
Pages
272
ISBN-13
9781943818310
Type
novel
Cover of The Boy She Left Behind

About this book

The Boy She Left Behind followed three years later, in 2017, at 272 pages, sending Rylee to Portland to track a serial killer terrorizing university students -- a novel that was a finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Young Adult Novel.

Key facts about The Boy She Left Behind

Gregg Olsen wrote The Boy She Left Behind, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2017. The book has 272 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781943818310 to find the main one.

The Boy She Left Behind is book 2 of 2 in the Vengeance series. The series has 2 published books. However, the series starts with Girls on Film (2014).

Additionally, Gregg Olsen writes Emily Kenyon, Waterman & Stark and Empty Coffin, plus 2 more series. Those series sit on our mystery and young_adult shelves. Meanwhile, Final Victim is the latest published Gregg Olsen book on file, from 2025.

About Gregg Olsen

Gregg Olsen was born March 5, 1959, in Seattle, Washington, and earned a journalism degree from Western Washington University, where he edited Klipsun Magazine and was managing editor of the campus paper, The Western Front. See every Gregg Olsen book in order.

Its place in Vengeance

The Boy She Left Behind is book 2 in the Vengeance series. It follows Girls on Film. See the full Vengeance reading order.

Fifteen-year-old Rylee Cassidey comes home from school to find her father dead, a knife through his heart and a key clutched in his hand. That discovery launches Gregg Olsen's young-adult Vengeance series, which follows Rylee as she pieces together the truth about her family and starts settling scores of her own -- lying, reinventing herself, and hunting down people who got away with hurting the people she loved. The second book sends her to Portland, tracking a serial killer terrorizing Portland State University…

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