Someone's Listening by Seraphina Nova GlassMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This story begins with the beautiful relationship between thriving psychologist and radio psychological advisor, Faith and her husband. They go to a book signing, where she is to speak and sign her recent book and on the way home, they are in a terrible traffic accident. Faith wakes up in the hospital and has severe injuries to rehabilitate. She is told that her husband was never found and that the police either believe that he wasn’t in the car with her or that he wanted out and vanished. She becomes the prime suspect in the case because she was the last one to see him. She is an unreliable narrator due to her poor reputation (based on an accusation by a former patient), pill popping, and binge drinking. At the same time, she cannot sit still and put the case into the hands of the police. So, she investigates what she can on her own.
This story has several tropes that are common in thrillers, unreliable narrator who loses everything and must claw her way back to normalcy, a stalker, questionable relationships, and drug addict parents. The story flies and is a fun read. I also enjoyed the way that the author gave enough information but not too much, so that I came up with the name of the stalker (not the motive), just before Faith was alone with that person. I don’t like a thriller to have an ending that isn’t enough of the story and then magically, “here’s who done it”. To me, I want to be actively deciding who I think the “bad guy” is all along but not sure until the reveal or close to it. This story did a fabulous job with that.
Definitely recommend this if you want a quick thriller with good twists. The audiobook is fabulous.
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