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A USA TODAY Bestseller
“The Return of Ellie Black is a page-turning suspense novel, a shrewd character study, and a captivating mystery, all at the same time. The last fifty pages are magnetic. I couldn’t put it down until I’d experienced every last twist and turn.” —STEPHEN KING
Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s life is turned upside down when she gets the call Ellie Black, a girl who disappeared years earlier, has resurfaced in the woods of Washington state—but Ellie’s reappearance leaves Chelsey with more questions than answers.
It’s been twenty years since Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s sister vanished when they were teenagers, and ever since she’s been searching: for signs, for closure, for other missing girls. But happy endings are rare in Chelsey’s line of work.
Then a glimmer: local teenager Ellie Black, who disappeared without a trace two years earlier, has been found alive in the woods of Washington State.
But something is not right with Ellie. She won’t say where she’s been, or who she’s protecting, and it’s up to Chelsey to find the answers. She needs to get to the bottom of what happened to Ellie: for herself, and for the memory of her sister, but mostly for the next girl who could be taken—and who, unlike Ellie, might never return.
The debut thriller from New York Times bestselling author Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black is both a feminist tour de force about the embers of hope that burn in the aftermath of tragedy and a twisty thriller that will shock and surprise you right up until the final seconds.
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Poor Deer
- A Novel
- By: Claire Oshetsky
- Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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Margaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure. Her first memory is of the day her friend Agnes died. No one blames Margaret. Not in so many words. Her mother insists to everyone who will listen that her daughter never even left the house that day. Left alone to make sense of tragedy, Margaret wills herself to forget these unbearable memories, replacing them with imagined stories full of faith and magic—that always end happily.
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Self Forgiveness
- By Rummyfun on 03-08-24
By: Claire Oshetsky
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The Evolution of Annabel Craig
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Grunwald
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Annabel Hayes—born, baptized, and orphaned in the sleepy conservative town of Dayton, Tennessee—is thrilled to find herself falling quickly and deeply in love with George Craig, a sophisticated attorney newly arrived from Knoxville. But before the end of their first year of marriage, their lives are beset by losses. The strain on their relationship is only intensified when John T. Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution at the local high school.
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Characters who draw you in to the time and issues
- By Amazon Customer on 05-04-24
By: Lisa Grunwald
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Intercessor
- By: John Robert Still
- Narrated by: Jonathan Beville
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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Jim Hampton arrived in New Orleans, eager to escape the stress of quitting a lucrative law practice. Instead, he finds a city on edge as a tropical depression brews in the Gulf. The storm appears to be dredging up the odd and unusual like shells from the ocean floor. Shadowy figures appear in alleyways; mysterious voices seem to come from nowhere. Jim is skeptical of the locals' claims that these are warnings from victims of past storms. He had all but given up on belief in the supernatural. That is until he meets Myriam, who begins to restore the faith of his childhood.
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A Surprising Story!
- By B. Greene76 on 07-04-24
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House of Glass
- A Novel
- By: Sarah Pekkanen
- Narrated by: Laura Benanti
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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A young nanny who plunged to her death, or was she pushed? A nine-year-old girl who collects sharp objects and refuses to speak. A lawyer whose job it is to uncover who in the family is a victim and who is a murderer. But how can you find out the truth when everyone here is lying? Rose Barclay is a nine-year-old girl who witnessed the possible murder of her nanny—in the midst of her parent's bitter divorce—and immediately stopped speaking.
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The narration ruins the story.
- By KP on 08-31-24
By: Sarah Pekkanen
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Swarm
- By: Jennifer D. Lyle
- Narrated by: Krystal Hammond
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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On a sunny September morning, the creatures first appear. Shur sees one of them hovering outside the window in history class: it looks like a giant butterfly, at first too beautiful and strange to seem like a threat. But when emergency alerts light up everyone’s phones around her, she realizes something very, very wrong is happening outside. These … things are everywhere. By the time Shur makes it back to her house with her brother, Keene, and their two best friends, it’s clear they must face whatever comes next on their own.
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United Against Monsters
- By Karen R. Edie on 05-10-24
By: Jennifer D. Lyle
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The Little Drummer Girl
- By: John Le Carré
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 22 hrs and 7 mins
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and the creator of the iconic spy George Smiley, John le Carré, The Little Drummer Girl is hailed as one of the author’s best, and the favorite of the likes of Steven King and John Grisham.
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Narrator’s accents annoying.
- By Laura Belk on 01-21-25
By: John Le Carré
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Sometimes I Lie
- By: Alice Feeney
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can't move. She can't speak. She can't open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn't remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from 20 years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?
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Wow!!!
- By Zoey&Jaspers Mommy on 03-21-18
By: Alice Feeney
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Young Rich Widows
- A Novel
- By: Kimberly Belle, Layne Fargo, Cate Holahan, and others
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman, Karissa Vacker, Helen Laser, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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It’s 1985 in Providence, Rhode Island, and the four partners of a prominent, mafia-affiliated law firm have been killed in a private jet that went down outside New York City. Four very different women have just lost the loves of their lives: Justine, a former fashion model adjusting to suburban life; Camille, a beautiful, young second wife some suspect is a gold digger; Krystle, committed to leaving the firm to her sons after her husband worked his whole life to support them all; and Meredith, a stripper at the local club who was in a secret relationship.
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Hands Down One of the Most Entertaining Thrillers Ever
- By Brad&Britney on 04-03-22
By: Kimberly Belle, and others
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Journey's End
- By: R.C. Sherriff
- Narrated by: James Callis, Josh Cole, Jack Cutmore-Scott, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
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It’s March 1918, and World War I is raging in Europe. In the trenches in northern France, a group of British officers, led by the war-weary Captain Stanhope, ready themselves for a major German attack while facing their worst fears. R.C. Sherriff drew on his own experiences in World War One to create the play, which premiered in 1928 and is now considered one of the preeminent works about the horrors of war.
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Gripping and powerful.
- By Ace777 on 12-01-24
By: R.C. Sherriff
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Frontier
- By: Grace Curtis
- Narrated by: Aven Shore
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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In the distant future most of the human race has fled a ravaged Earth to find new life on other planets. For those who stayed a lawless society remains. Technology has been renounced, and saints and sinners, lawmakers and sheriffs, travelers and gunslingers, abound. What passes for justice is presided over by the High Sheriff, and carried out by his cruel and ruthless Deputy.
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A standout in its genre
- By Caleb Summers on 03-08-25
By: Grace Curtis
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Madwoman
- By: Chelsea Bieker
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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Clove has gone to extremes to keep her past a secret. Thanks to her lies, she’s landed the life of her dreams, complete with a safe husband and two adoring children who will never know the terror that was routine in her own childhood. If her buried anxiety threatens to breach the surface, Clove (if that is really her name) focuses on finding the right supplement, the right gratitude meditation. But when she receives a letter from a women’s prison in California, her past comes screeching into the present, entangling her in a dangerous game with memory and the people she thought she had outrun.
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Relevent
- By Medusa on 10-10-24
By: Chelsea Bieker
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Empress of All Seasons
- By: Emiko Jean
- Narrated by: Hanako Footman
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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Each generation, a competition is held to find the next empress of Honoku. The rules are simple. Survive the palace’s enchanted seasonal rooms. Conquer Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. Marry the prince. All are eligible to compete—all except yōkai, supernatural monsters and spirits whom the human emperor is determined to enslave and destroy. Mari has spent a lifetime training to become empress. Winning should be easy. And it would be, if she weren't hiding a dangerous secret. Mari is a yōkai with the ability to transform into a terrifying monster.
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Interesting but…
- By Maribel on 08-18-21
By: Emiko Jean
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- Slewis
- 06-10-24
Solid detective novel!
Good performance and even better story line. Just the right amount of suspense. Looking forward to listening to more from this author.
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- nadine
- 06-18-24
The Confusion and all the unnecessary repeating .
The entire story. Too many narrators hard to keep track. Repeated some sentences in chapters.
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- Kelly
- 06-20-24
I liked the first half but …
The story faded off and lost my interest but I finished it. I’d skip this one.
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- Olga Chapman
- 06-01-24
Plot holes
I enjoyed the book for the most part, but there are some key plot points that really would not have happened the way they happened in the book. I don’t want to give too much away to anyone reading the book, but it kind of messed up the believability, even though I know it’s fiction!
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- Jessamy
- 06-30-24
Kept my interest from start to finish
Beautifully written and great story. Really enjoyed the narration too! Twists and turns throughout which really kept me interested the entire time (no easy feat!).
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- AEverding
- 07-07-24
Loved the full cast
I enjoyed listening to this and finished in 2 days. I loved the full cast and the story kept me wanting more.
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- Wild Clover
- 08-16-24
The Will to Live
We all endure our own hell on earth. Some just make better stories than others.
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- Brittany Olsson
- 10-23-24
Kept me guessing
This one definitely had me thinking I knew what was going to happen but was wrong in the end. I would’ve given a higher grade but the narration was all over the place and hard to follow at times. Are we in a flashback? Or is this happening right now? Whose point of view is this? Besides that - the story was good. Dark and very twisted. Solid thriller.
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- Brando Pete
- 12-29-24
Captivating
It was so hard to stop listening to this book! Much more intense and interesting than I was expecting.
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- Jackie0930
- 05-25-24
A Solid Debut Novel
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Ellie Black has returned out of the woods in Washington after being missing for 2 years. Detective Chelsey Calhoun is on the case. Detective Calhoun also had her sister missing about 20 years ago when they were teenagers. The more Chelsey talks with Ellie about where she’s been the last 2 years the more things unravel.
I think this was a solid debut novel. I loved the different POV’s and how it all came together at the end. Some of it was anti-climactic but I enjoyed it a lot.
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