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Graduate students Zoë and Holli only mean to blow off some steam on their road trip to Las Vegas. But something goes terribly wrong on their way home, and the last time Zoë sees her, Holli is in the clutches of a sadistic killer. Zoë flees with her life, changed forever.

A year later and still tortured with guilt, Zoë latches on to a police investigation where the crime eerily resembles her abduction. Along with a zealous detective, she retraces the steps of that fateful night in the desert, hoping that her memory will return and help them find justice for Holli. Her abductor--labeled the "Tally Man" by a fascinated media--lies in wait for Zoë. For him, she is not a survivor but simply the one that got away.

With an unforgettable heroine, a chillingly disturbed psychopath, and a story that moves at breakneck speed, The One That Got Away is thriller writer Simon Wood at his finest.

©2015 Simon Wood (P)2014 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Crime Fiction Detective Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Crime Scary Exciting
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I almost gave up with this book. The female narrator was better with the male parts than the female. She was completely robotic and I wondered whether the book was narrated by a computer voice - it was that bad.

The story was predictable & average, reminding me of a formulaic TV detective episode. I wonder if it would be more captivating with a better narrator.

Can't really recommend this book.

Narration was exceptionally wooden

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took a long time to get used to the narrator's emotionless voice. story is run of the mill, really

story is ok narrator sounds like siri

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The story was predictable but the writer made Zoe a person you want to survive. The narrator was a bit off putting for me. An average book.

Predictable

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The girl reading this was a bit too whiney for my liking. The story wasn't great either. All in all it was meh.

Nothing exceptional

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Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

We listened to this as a stop gap between waiting for a new book to come out. It was more than ok, a bit predictable but we were in for the long haul. We liked it and even thought is this character going to be developed into a sleuth in other books set as thrillers?

Would you recommend The One That Got Away to your friends? Why or why not?

Yes it's fine, it's not our favourite narrator, we knew nothing of the author either. But would recommend.

What aspect of Emily Durante’s performance might you have changed?

It's a good range to swop from narrating as both male and female. It's hard to make males sound different from one another but if you're listening attentively enough, it's not a problem. Sometimes she read a bit robotic like but ignoring that she is good.

If this book were a film would you go see it?

I think not

The go to kickass girl surmounts adversity

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