Recursive LinkedList

My recursive insert method seems to be dropping the rest of the list. Can I get some feedback on how to properly add into a sorted linkedlist recursively??? Thank you!

void insertRecursively(Node<int>*& head, int item)
{ 
Node<int>* newNode = new Node<int>(item);
Node<int>* curPtr = head;
Node<int>* prev;

if(curPtr != nullptr && item < curPtr -> getItem())
{
    prev = curPtr;
    curPtr = curPtr -> getNext();
    insertRecursively(curPtr, item);
}
else
{
    if(curPtr == nullptr)
    {
        newNode -> setNext(head);
        head = newNode;
    }
    else
    {
        prev -> setNext(curPtr);
        curPtr -> setNext(newNode);
    }
}

   }