Here and Gone - Haylen Beck

Category: Adults, Suspense, Thriller
Language: English
Keywords: Corruption Cover-up. Murder

Written by Haylen Beck
Read by Abby Craden
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date: June 20, 2017
Duration: 10:10:29

Here and Gone is a gripping, wonderfully tense suspense thriller about a mother’s desperate fight to recover her stolen children from corrupt authorities.

It begins with a woman fleeing through Arizona with her kids in tow, trying to escape an abusive marriage. When she’s pulled over by an unsettling local sheriff, things soon go awry and she is taken into custody. Only when she gets to the station, her kids are gone. And then the cops start saying they never saw any kids with her, that if they’re gone than she must have done something with them… Meanwhile, halfway across the country a man hears the frenzied news reports about the missing kids, which are eerily similar to events in his own past. As the clock ticks down on the search for the lost children, he too is drawn into the desperate fight for their return.

The novel is rife with highly emotional moments, and actor-narrator Craden performs them with full intensity, matching Beck’s descriptions of Audra’s overwhelming unhappiness and lack of self-esteem at home and her sense of empowerment leading to her breakaway. Trapped by Whiteside, she gives vent to frustration, fear, and fury. The quick-to-anger sheriff is full of smarmy good-ole-boy charm (with an accent to match) when dealing with the press, but there are moments when he can’t keep his self-loathing under wraps.

Harylen Beck is the pseudonym of Irish author Stuart Neville