The Damage
A Novel
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Soneela Nankani
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By:
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Caitlin Wahrer
About this listen
“[One of the] buzziest new books arriving this season...[a] rollercoaster of terror, marked by whip-fast twists and turns.” (New York Times)
“Pulled me in from the first page.... Put this one high on your summer list.” (Stephen King)
When a small-town family is pushed to the brink, how far will they go to protect one of their own? An edgy, propulsive story about what we will do in the name of love and blood.
Tony has always looked out for his younger brother, Nick. So when he's called to a hospital bed where Nick is lying battered and bruised after a violent sexual assault, his protective instincts flare, and a white-hot rage begins to build.
As a small-town New England lawyer, Tony's wife, Julia, has cases involving kids all the time. When Detective Rice gets assigned to this one, Julia feels they're in good hands. Especially because she senses that Rice, too, understands how things can quickly get complicated. Very complicated.
After all, one moment Nick was having a drink with a handsome stranger; the next, he was at the center of an investigation threatening to tear not only him, but his entire family, apart. And now his attacker, out on bail, is disputing Nick's version of what happened.
As Julia tries to help her brother-in-law, she sees Tony's desire for revenge, to fix things for Nick, getting out of control. Tony is starting to scare her. And before long, she finds herself asking: Does she really know what her husband is capable of? Or of what she herself is?
Exploring elements of doubt, tragedy, suspense, and justice, The Damage is an all-consuming listen that marks the explosive debut of an extraordinary new writer.
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Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or two about serial killers, but not through her police training. She's an officer in sleepy Woodbury, Massachusetts, where a bicycle theft still makes the newspapers. No one there knows she was once victim number 17 in the grisly story of serial killer Francis Michael Coben. The only victim who lived. When three people disappear from her town in three years, all around her birthday - the day she was kidnapped so long ago - Ellery fears someone knows her secret. Someone very dangerous.
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Engaging mystery debut!
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All the Pretty Girls
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When a local girl falls prey to a sadistic serial killer, Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson and her lover, FBI profiler Dr. John Baldwin, find themselves in a joint investigation pursuing a vicious murderer. The Southern Strangler is slaughtering his way through the Southeast, leaving a gruesome memento at each crime scene – the prior victim’s severed hand.
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Distracting subplot and uninteresting characters
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The Last Place You Look
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Nobody knows what happened to Sarah Cook. The beautiful blonde teenager disappeared 15 years ago, the same night her parents were brutally murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend, Brad Stockton - black and from the wrong side of the tracks - was convicted of the murders and is now on death row. Though he's maintained his innocence all along, the clock is running out. His execution is only weeks away when his devoted sister insists she spied Sarah at an area gas station.
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Alcoholic PI
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In the Bleak Midwinter
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Clare Fergusson, St. Alban's new priest, fits like a square peg in the conservative Episcopal parish at Miller's Kill, New York. She is not just a "lady"; she's a tough ex-Army chopper pilot, and nobody's fool. Then a newborn infant left at the church door brings her together with the town's police chief, Russ Van Alstyne, who's also ex-Army and a cynical good shepherd for the stray sheep of his hometown.
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Ice Cold Complex Small Town Police Procedural/Mystery
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Missing Parts
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Growing up abandoned by her father and raised by a single mother, Celeste was determined to create the perfect family - but even perfect families have secrets. Her days are filled with a rewarding career, a devoted husband, and her four-year-old daughter. Celeste is the only one who knows the precarious house of cards her family is built upon - until the day her daughter falls critically ill. Then her world quickly spirals out of control, her secret threatening to destroy her marriage, family, reputation, and sanity.
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SPOILER ALERT. Sigh...
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No Hiding in Boise
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Angie is awakened by a midnight call from an officer with the Boise Police Department and thinks there must be a misunderstanding. The officer tells her that her husband was involved in a shooting at a local bar, but how can that be when her husband is sleeping right next to her? But when she turns to wake him, he isn’t there. Tessa is the 23-year-old bartender who escapes to a backroom storage closet during the shooting. When it comes to light that five people were killed, she is burdened with the question of why she survived.
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fantastic audio involving contemporary issues
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- Katie N. Harper
- 08-28-21
Finally Gave up!
This story started out promising. The action moved quickly and was intriguing, but then the author lapsed into giving the audience the rest of the story in very short bits and pieces, jumping around in time and jumping in points of view. I tried to get to the end, but finally had to give it up. The story would have been much shorter if the author had stayed on point, so perhaps this was merely a technique to drag things out. It dragged, all right.
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- Harry
- 08-20-21
Lackluster ending
I enjoyed this book for the most part but it was listed as a thriller when I didn’t really find it to be one. I also was not very invested in the ending.
I enjoyed the bulk of the book though.
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- Coco likes books
- 06-28-21
Fantastic!
The Damage is a very clever, creative and socially relevant novel. It’s also a great mystery and an all around wonderful listen on so many levels. I highly recommend this book.
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- Molly
- 06-17-21
Wow.
I am a mild critic as I passively listen to audiobooks while I do my work but when I say wow, I mean it. This captured my attention and made me even play on 1.5 speed just to absorb the story more quickly. Fantastic book, talented author. 100% the next book you need to read.
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- Lyn Relph
- 06-27-21
This will be a movie
Fresh and timely. believable, substantive characters, and fast paced plot. ill look forward to more books by Wahrer.
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- Cyndee
- 09-24-21
Hooked in the first 15 minutes!
I loved it! I will listen again, and highly recommend ! first book of her that I've listened to. will try another
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- DG
- 06-24-21
Almost took a personal day to listen
I didn’t want to stop listening to this story. It’s incredibly written. Glad to have the option to listen to from my earbuds while putting my kids to bed. Wahrer’s ability to make you feel like you’re in the room is next level.
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- Carly
- 01-31-23
Great listen!
Really great listen, lots of twists and turns. Very likable characters with a lot of heartfelt issues going on. Trigger warning for sexual abuse.
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- Christy
- 07-31-21
Super long, a slow burn but really good.
Since this was a slow burner, I started to think it would never get to the punch line. But holy shitballs it did. I would never have thought Julia would truly offer him up to be 'iced', though the mention of Alisa did give me pause. It was an interesting listen.
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- Barbara S
- 08-19-21
collateral damage of rape
Trigger warning: brutal sexual assault with an assumed sexual predator. In this case, the rape victim was a male college student who indulged in excessive liquor at a dive bar which ended in a horrendous rape.
“The Damage” by Caitlin Wahrer explores gay rape. The victim, Nick Hall, tries to keep the rape quiet because he’s embarrassed. This novel brings out all the shame associated with rape. Nick finds it exceptionally humiliating because he was dominated….what self-respecting male allows himself to be dominate? Add to that, the assailant has a differing memory of the events which adds to Nick’s trepidation.
The story is told in two timeframes. The time of the rape, 2015, and 2019 when the lead detective revisits the case with Julia, Nick’s sister-in-law. Thus, from the beginning we know that there is some uncleared business from the case. The reader slowly learns about what truly happened that night…the horror. Plus, we learn how the court case and trial dates weigh on the victim. The social media and public opinion that attaches itself to these personal crimes only add to the original trauma.
Nick has endured a traumatic childhood leaving him with his older half brother Tony taking care of him. When Nick is raped, this close-knit family comes together to find justice. But the collateral damage of this assault weighs heavily on the family.
The story is also told from three points of view: Nick; Julia; Tony and John(the detective). Through the alternating character chapters, the suspense grows. How did the case close?
I love when I don’t guess the ending, nor see any of the ending until the very last chapters. Well done Ms. Wahrer!
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