Synopsis
Sue Young returns home from work to discover that her one-year-old daughter has been kidnapped and is forced to follow the kidnapper's bizarre instructions on a twisted route through a series of small Massachusetts towns in order to rescue her child by morning.
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About the Author
Joe Schreiber is an MRI tech in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and the author of Chasing the Dead.
Renée Raudman is a multi-award-winning audiobook narrator and actor. A multiple Audie Award nominee, she has earned a number of AudioFile Earphones Awards, and her narration of Homer's Odyssey by Gwen Cooper was selected by Library Journal as one of the best audiobooks of 2009.
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Starred Review. Raudman delivers a bravura performance of Schreiber's excruciatingly suspenseful first novel. Set over the course of one horrific night, the book chronicles the trials of Susan Young, a wealthy divorcée, who receives a call from a mysterious stranger, informing her that he has abducted her one-year-old daughter and will kill her unless Susan does exactly what he wants. But this is far from a simple kidnapping; the detailed instructions given to Susan takes her deep into a horrific realm of murder, grave robbing, mutilated corpses and zombies, all controlled by the malevolent, uncompromising voice on the other end of Susan's cellphone. Raudman's smooth, intimate narration pulls the listener into this supernatural thriller with ease and consequently heightens the horrific incidents that pile onto Susan. The skillful narration is matched by individual character interpretation—each is given a distinctive voice and relayed with a natural, realistic delivery. This is most effective during the creepy cellphone conversations between Susan and her twisted tormentor. Not a story for the faint of heart.
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Susan Young is on her way home to Boston when she receives a phone call from a man who has kidnapped her young daughter. The kidnapper directs Susan on a nightmare trip through New England on which she encounters supernatural events of a bloody past. When Susan gets angry with her daughter's abductor, narrator RenŽe Raudman's voice takes on a hard edge. The kidnapper's voice is suitably threatening. For the most part, Raudman's uninflected interpretation lets the horror elements and plot twists of the story provide the suspense. Those who appreciate stories in which characters come back to life will like this production. S.K. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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