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The Suspect

By: Fiona Barton
Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Mark Meadows, Sian Thomas, Ria Zmitrowicz
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The New York Times best-selling author of The Widow returns with a brand new novel of twisting psychological suspense about every parent's worst nightmare....

When two 18-year-old girls go missing in Thailand, their families are thrust into the international spotlight: desperate, bereft and frantic with worry. What were the girls up to before they disappeared?

Journalist Kate Waters always does everything she can to be first to the story, first with the exclusive, first to discover the truth - and this time is no exception. But she can't help but think of her own son, whom she hasn't seen in two years, since he left home to go travelling.

As the case of the missing girls unfolds, they will all find that even this far away, danger can lie closer to home than you might think....

Cover credit: Richard Shailer

©2018 Fiona Barton (P)2018 Audible, Ltd Crime Fiction Detective Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Emotionally Gripping Crime
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Kept waiting for the big twist that never came.
Interesting enough story, but no real intrigue. I guess she set the bar pretty high before and this unfortunately came nowhere near it.
Thai accents were spot on.

Not as good as previous work

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The story and performance are compelling. Kept me hooked till the end. Well written and performed.

Compelling

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The choice of multiple narrators doesn’t work in the case of this novel as you end up with different expressions of the same characters, many of which are annoying to listen to.

Swing and a miss

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V good, well written story. I like hearing all the characters perspectives. Well read by all characters.

The Suspect

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Casting multiple voice actors to voice one another’s characters as their own characters interact, is interesting though sometimes a tad distracting, as listeners familiarise particular voices with respective people.
For this production, unlike some wherein different voices are heard at the same time as in reality, the chapters are each read entirely by the respective actor whose appointed character said chapters happen to be narrating from their perspective.

The story as a whole, is occasionally confusing, due to the aforementioned, but is increasingly enticing towards the end with a superb, if a little unsettling conclusion.

A journalist-mystery as opposed to a “detective” mystery

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