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Taryn Ryan
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By:
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Nicole Trope
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Her chest tightens, her heart speeding up. The kitchen is chaos. She steps on something hard, and looks down. Toy dinosaurs are scattered everywhere. But her son is nowhere–her baby boy is gone.
The police arrive. She can’t look at her husband. Instead, she studies the network of lines on her shaking hands.
Then her phone beeps with a voice message. "Listen to it on speaker," says the detective.
A woman’s voice fills the air.
"I’m assuming this is the Andrea Gately listed as a contact on the Missing Children of the World website. I’m calling to let you know that I’ve given your details to the police. Why are you using a picture of my son on a missing children’s website? Why are you using it and where did you get it?"
A psychological thriller that will leave you gasping with shock and staying up way past your bedtime. Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Liane Moriarty and Adele Parks.
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It’s the phone call every mother dreads. I’m climbing into the car after a trip to the grocery store. As the engine starts, my phone rings. It’s my stepdaughter, Shelby, who is babysitting my three-year-old Millie. "I only went upstairs for a second," she says through her sobs. "She’s gone." When the police turn up, Shelby’s story starts to unravel. What is she hiding? Then I get a message saying, "Your husband is not who you think he is." Suddenly, my family feel like strangers. Everyone has a secret - even me.
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Amaing book
- By Amazon Customer on 10-13-23
By: Nicole Trope
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The Boy in the Photo
- By: Nicole Trope
- Narrated by: Melle Stewart
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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Megan waits at the school gates for her six-year-old son, Daniel. As the playground empties, panic bubbles inside her. Daniel is nowhere to be found. According to his teacher, Daniel’s father picked up his son. Except he and Megan are no longer together. After years of being controlled by her cruel husband, Megan finally found the courage to divorce him. Hands trembling, she dials his number, but the line is dead. Six years later, Megan gets the call she has dreamt about for years. Daniel has walked into a police station in a remote town just a few miles away....
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Finally, a really great book that kept my interest
- By cindy on 07-21-19
By: Nicole Trope
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Not a Good Enough Mother
- By: Nicole Trope
- Narrated by: Taryn Ryan
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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She knows everything about you… but can you trust her? I walk in to my interview with Ava Green and carefully hand over my application. It’s all made up, of course, but Ava doesn’t have to know that. There is so much worry in her blue eyes. Her phone pings with constant messages and a small stain marks her crisp shirt. Breakfast with her two little girls before heading out to this high-flying job every morning can’t be easy. Ava needs me, I think. More than anything.
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very good
- By lisa on 09-18-24
By: Nicole Trope
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His Other Wife
- By: Nicole Trope
- Narrated by: Taryn Ryan
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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I never thought I would end up here. Alone, in a cold one-bedroom apartment, only seeing my precious daughter once a week. Another woman is living the life that was once mine. I wish I was still married to my ex-husband, the love of my life. I dream of tucking my five-year-old child into her ballerina bed sheets every night. I miss living in a beautiful house, the perfect family home, with a winding staircase and a sprawling garden. I’d do anything to be with my family again. To start over and prove to them that I’ve changed, that I won’t lose control like before.
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One mistake
- By ana marquezini on 07-16-22
By: Nicole Trope
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My Daughter's Secret
- By: Nicole Trope
- Narrated by: Helen Walsh
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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In the middle of the night, Claire wakes up to discover that her beloved daughter, Julia, is dead - and life, as she knows it, is over. Searching for answers, Claire stumbles upon a pile of letters, hidden under Julia’s bed in an old, battered shoebox, and feels closer to her daughter than ever before. They tell her that Julia was happy, that she was thriving at university, that she was in love. But as the letters go on, Claire starts to feel uneasy at something hidden between the lines. Even as she grieves, she must prepare to face a shocking discovery.
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Didn't see that coming!
- By T Ramsey on 11-05-19
By: Nicole Trope
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The Truth About the Accident
- By: Nicole Trope
- Narrated by: Taryn Ryan
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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I gaze at my husband’s once handsome face, so still and pale in the hospital bed. The doctors say I should keep talking. He might be able to hear me even after the terrible accident that left him fighting for his life. But all I have to whisper to my husband is this: "I know what you did."
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Shockingly good!!
- By Terri C. on 05-07-24
By: Nicole Trope
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The Stepchild
- By: Nicole Trope
- Narrated by: Taryn Ryan
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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It’s the phone call every mother dreads. I’m climbing into the car after a trip to the grocery store. As the engine starts, my phone rings. It’s my stepdaughter, Shelby, who is babysitting my three-year-old Millie. "I only went upstairs for a second," she says through her sobs. "She’s gone." When the police turn up, Shelby’s story starts to unravel. What is she hiding? Then I get a message saying, "Your husband is not who you think he is." Suddenly, my family feel like strangers. Everyone has a secret - even me.
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Amaing book
- By Amazon Customer on 10-13-23
By: Nicole Trope
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The Boy in the Photo
- By: Nicole Trope
- Narrated by: Melle Stewart
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Megan waits at the school gates for her six-year-old son, Daniel. As the playground empties, panic bubbles inside her. Daniel is nowhere to be found. According to his teacher, Daniel’s father picked up his son. Except he and Megan are no longer together. After years of being controlled by her cruel husband, Megan finally found the courage to divorce him. Hands trembling, she dials his number, but the line is dead. Six years later, Megan gets the call she has dreamt about for years. Daniel has walked into a police station in a remote town just a few miles away....
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Finally, a really great book that kept my interest
- By cindy on 07-21-19
By: Nicole Trope
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Not a Good Enough Mother
- By: Nicole Trope
- Narrated by: Taryn Ryan
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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She knows everything about you… but can you trust her? I walk in to my interview with Ava Green and carefully hand over my application. It’s all made up, of course, but Ava doesn’t have to know that. There is so much worry in her blue eyes. Her phone pings with constant messages and a small stain marks her crisp shirt. Breakfast with her two little girls before heading out to this high-flying job every morning can’t be easy. Ava needs me, I think. More than anything.
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very good
- By lisa on 09-18-24
By: Nicole Trope
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His Other Wife
- By: Nicole Trope
- Narrated by: Taryn Ryan
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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I never thought I would end up here. Alone, in a cold one-bedroom apartment, only seeing my precious daughter once a week. Another woman is living the life that was once mine. I wish I was still married to my ex-husband, the love of my life. I dream of tucking my five-year-old child into her ballerina bed sheets every night. I miss living in a beautiful house, the perfect family home, with a winding staircase and a sprawling garden. I’d do anything to be with my family again. To start over and prove to them that I’ve changed, that I won’t lose control like before.
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One mistake
- By ana marquezini on 07-16-22
By: Nicole Trope
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My Daughter's Secret
- By: Nicole Trope
- Narrated by: Helen Walsh
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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In the middle of the night, Claire wakes up to discover that her beloved daughter, Julia, is dead - and life, as she knows it, is over. Searching for answers, Claire stumbles upon a pile of letters, hidden under Julia’s bed in an old, battered shoebox, and feels closer to her daughter than ever before. They tell her that Julia was happy, that she was thriving at university, that she was in love. But as the letters go on, Claire starts to feel uneasy at something hidden between the lines. Even as she grieves, she must prepare to face a shocking discovery.
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Didn't see that coming!
- By T Ramsey on 11-05-19
By: Nicole Trope
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The Foster Family
- By: Nicole Trope
- Narrated by: Taryn Ryan
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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Elizabeth is Joe’s foster mother, but she loves him like her own. The five-year-old, who adores superheroes and watching the birds outside, is the child she has dreamed of. As she looks into the garden, where he was playing just moments ago, her heart feels like it has been ripped from her chest. She was meant to save Joe from his birth mother who almost harmed his chances at life. The woman who has been trying to desperately get him back. She was meant to protect Joe from her husband. The man who, right now, lies to the police, saying he was making breakfast when Joe disappeared.
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Wonderful story!
- By Wendy V. on 06-25-23
By: Nicole Trope
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The Family Across the Street
- A Totally Unputdownable Psychological Thriller with a Shocking Twist
- By: Nicole Trope
- Narrated by: Taryn Ryan
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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You’d never know what secrets the house on Hogarth Street holds - what’s happening, right this second, behind closed doors. An emerald-green front lawn. Perfectly trimmed hedging. An ivy-covered front gate and the scent of honeysuckle in the air. In the yard, two scooters lie on the grass. One blue, one pink, belonging to five-year-old twins.
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don't waste your time or money
- By Ruth Barroga on 08-26-21
By: Nicole Trope
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The Mother's Fault
- A Totally Addictive Psychological Thriller Full of Twists
- By: Nicole Trope
- Narrated by: Taryn Ryan
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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I am cooking spaghetti, his favourite, while he plays in the garden. But when I look up, he’s gone. I call the police, my hands shaking so much that I hit the wrong digits twice. "My son is missing." When the police turn up, I’m trapped in the web of my lies. I have hidden the truth from eight-year-old Riley, my little boy who loves climbing trees and always has scraped knees. I have hidden my secret from everyone.
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Don't bother...
- By joanne on 10-31-21
By: Nicole Trope
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The Day After the Party
- By: Nicole Trope
- Narrated by: Taryn Ryan
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Katelyn smiles around at her husband and friends, gathered to celebrate her 36th birthday in their beautiful home decorated with fairy lights. But the next day Katelyn wakes up shaken and terrified in a hospital bed. She doesn’t remember the sweet taste of birthday cake icing, or how angry her best friend was at midnight, or the terrible things her husband said. She doesn’t remember the party at all. When she asks her husband what happened the night of the party he says "nothing". But her blood runs cold at the way his voice lilts slightly. The way it always does when he is lying.
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Wish I had amnesia
- By Russells on 10-16-24
By: Nicole Trope
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The Perfect Girl
- A Novel
- By: Gilly Macmillan
- Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins, Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
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Zoe Maisey is a 17-year-old musical prodigy with a genius IQ. Three years ago she was involved in a tragic incident that left three classmates dead. She served her time, and now her mother, Maria, is resolved to keep that devastating fact tucked far away from their new beginning, hiding the past even from her new husband and demanding Zoe do the same.
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This is NOT a new book. This book was previously released. Deceitful!
- By Nikole on 09-06-16
By: Gilly Macmillan
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Forgotten
- By: Nicole Trope
- Narrated by: Susan Strafford
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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All Malia needed was a single litre of milk, and now she's surrounded by police and Zach has disappeared. Detective Ali Greenberg knows that this is not the best case for her - not with her history, but she has to get back to work at some point. Edna is worried about the new residents at the boardinghouse. She knows Mary would turn in her grave if she knew the kinds of people her son was letting in. And then there is someone else. Someone whose heart is broken.
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Wow!
- By Ann on 11-27-17
By: Nicole Trope
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The Baby
- By: A J McDine
- Narrated by: Tamsin Kennard
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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The day I was told I’d never be able to have a child, my world came crashing down. My husband says he still loves me, but I lie awake at night, wishing we could have a family. One morning, my husband’s side of the bed is cold and empty. I hear a noise and head downstairs. In the middle of the rug in my living room is a wooden drawer. Swaddled inside, with perfect rosy cheeks and beautiful round blue eyes, a baby gazes up at me.
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Great Thriller!
- By Kathy on 10-16-24
By: A J McDine
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The Boy Under the Table
- By: Nicole Trope
- Narrated by: Susan Strafford
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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From the queen of white-knuckle suspense and searing family drama comes a harrowing glimpse into the real world behind the headlines. This is a novel of immense power and compassion - one that will move all who listen to it. Tina is a young woman hiding from her grief on the streets of the Cross. On a cold night in the middle of winter, she breaks all her own rules when she agrees to go home with a customer. What she finds in his house will change her life forever. The Boy Under the Table is gritty, shocking, moving and, ultimately, filled with hope.
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Interesting and compassionate
- By Naomi Yaeger on 05-26-17
By: Nicole Trope
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The Wives
- By: Tarryn Fisher
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 9 hrs
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You’ve never met the other wives. None of you know each other, and because of this unconventional arrangement, you can see your husband only one day a week. But you love him so much you don’t care. Or at least that’s what you’ve told yourself. But one day, while you’re doing laundry, you find a scrap of paper in his pocket—an appointment reminder for a woman named Hannah, and you just know it’s another of the wives.
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Unlikeable main character, author cheats
- By Timothy Masters on 02-12-20
By: Tarryn Fisher
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Just the Nicest Couple
- By: Mary Kubica
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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Jake Hayes is missing. This much is certain. At first, his wife, Nina, thinks he is blowing off steam at a friend’s house after their heated fight the night before. But then a day goes by. Two days. Five. And Jake is still nowhere to be found. Lily Scott, Nina’s friend and coworker, thinks she may have been the last to see Jake before he went missing. After Lily confesses everything to her husband, Christian, the two decide that nobody can find out what happened leading up to Jake’s disappearance, especially not Nina.
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Kubica Die hard
- By Drew S. on 01-13-23
By: Mary Kubica
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Don't Let Her Stay
- By: Nicola Sanders
- Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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Joanne knows how lucky she is—Richard is a wonderful husband, Evie is the most gorgeous baby girl, they live in a beautiful house—life couldn't be better. But then Richard's twenty-year-old daughter Chloe turns up. Chloe hasn’t spoken to her father since the day he married Joanne two years ago. But with the arrival of her baby sister Evie, Chloe wants to make peace. Richard is delighted, and since Joanne is struggling with the new baby, he suggests Chloe could move in and help.
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Don’t trust the hype.. skip this one
- By Keke on 07-19-23
By: Nicola Sanders
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What Have You Done?
- A Novel
- By: Shari Lapena
- Narrated by: January LaVoy, Jorjeana Marie, Barrett Leddy
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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The teenagers get their kicks telling ghost stories in the old graveyard. The parents trust their kids will arrive home safe from school. Everyone knows everyone. Curtains rarely twitch. Front doors are left unlocked. But Diana Brewer isn’t lying safely in her bed where she belongs. Instead she lies in a hayfield, circled by vultures, discovered by a local farmer. How quickly a girl becomes a ghost. How quickly a town of friendly, familiar faces becomes a town of suspects, a place of fear and paranoia.
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AMAZING BOOK!!!
- By Jessica Bell on 07-30-24
By: Shari Lapena
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- Ziggy
- 09-11-23
Disappointing
The story was not a psychological thriller! It was a bunch of dialogue. Did not enjoy & would not consider this a thriller
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- Lisa McWilliams
- 05-19-23
Loved it
Loved the story and the NARRATOR so much!! I enjoy the twists and turns and recommend it.
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- Books 4 U
- 05-18-23
Excellent
Very good…never really sure where the story was going so any twists were, by-and-large surprising. Good character development.
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- Michelle Grindle
- 04-12-23
Wow
This one has me biting my nails. Though in real life things wouldn’t work the way it did but the story was entertaining and the twist really shocked me.
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- Seth
- 12-27-23
just wow
I found this a great story that had me on the edge of my seat. I read a lot of these types of stories and can usually piece together the broad strokes of the ending before I get there. But this book ended very unexpectedly. I liked the surprise of it. I also liked the many clues spread throughout starting with the beginning itself. I don't know if the author wrote the beginning first, or the ending first, but the cleaver weave of minor red flags throughout was brilliant.
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- Well Read Nana 1/24
- 01-24-23
Not the author’s best for me personally
I had some peeves with this read and the characters.It was a bit of a disappointment for me because I like this author and I find her reads smart and character driven .There was quite a bit not to truly believe or understand about these characters They were very vague in the beginning,then very stupid in the middle.I don’t want to ruin anything for anyone for sharing too much but let’s just say there was a lot of eye rolling going on for me for certain situations that the characters let slide or pretended didn’t really matter or happen.Just not witty or smart enough for my taste or liking .And the ending was ridiculous,literally could and would never ever happen, So it was just okay ,not enough of what I hope for with this author sorry to say .
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