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The Breakdown
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard, Rose McPhilemy
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thriller & Suspense
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- Colin
- 21-05-22
awesome
great characters! I didn't know who took Lizzie until the last few chapters. awesome.
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- Patricia Petro
- 27-04-22
wonderful
I love all the books she writes. they are suspenseful, romantic, and sometimes funny. She makes you want to read her writing again and again. The book did not fail. I will listen to it again because everytime I listen to her books I find something I did not get the time before. it's like listening to it for the first time all over again.
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- lisa
- 17-04-22
not believable
The characters were interesting and the story could have been if it was believable. No investigation would ever be ran like this. That killed the whole vibe.
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- dave
- 13-04-22
Finally and ending worth the wait
At first it seems like a classic Who Did It. Cliff Island is a real place and the dram conjured by the writer is as real as it gets when the subject is a missing child. The twists and turns especially in the final half are sensational and unexpected. Nice work.