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The Secrets We Keep

By: A J Wills
Narrated by: Penny Andrews, Andy Cresswell
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Ten-year-old Annie Warren hasn’t made it home from school and with every passing hour, hopes of finding her alive are fading fast.

Her parents, Cathy and Kit, are frantic with worry, fearing the worst.

Could their daughter, the miracle child who came as a surprise to them both, have been abducted?

The police are coordinating a massive search but seem totally clueless, while the Warrens’ home is under siege from a news-hungry press pack crawling over themselves to cover the story.

Among them is Yannick Kellor, an ambitious TV news reporter who’s spotted an opportunity to make his name with a career-changing scoop.

He has a unique reason for wanting to solve the mystery and to find Annie alive.

But as he peels back the layers of deception and deceit Cathy and Kit have carefully crafted, he begins to suspect the truth of what’s happened to her might lie much closer to home…©2022 A J Wills (P)2023 W. F. Howes Ltd Crime Thrillers Genre Fiction Psychological Thriller Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime Suspense Mystery
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very repetitive and slow moving. not much happens throughout. unbelievable ending. got fed up of listening to same thing over and over again. could have been drastically shortened.

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To start with the story was intriguing enough for me to press through with listening. The female narrator used the most whining, unbelievable voice for her narration ( I looked her up on line, and know that it isn’t her real voice). It was so grating that I came extremely close to giving up on the book many, many times, but the story kept me listening despite the sound.

The first 75% of the book was well written and compelling, even though the “who done it” element was spoiled by the glaringly obviousness of the culprit . However, moving on to the last part of the story it all fell apart.
Unbelievable, 1970’s crime series jargon in the dialogue “banged to rights” etc, suddenly peppering Cathy’s language,
The final “reveal” also like something from an ancient police drama from the dark ages, where the perpetrator has to be gay, and a paedophile to boot.
Honestly,?8 wish I had followed my gut and stopped listening right at the start.

Dreadful female narrator, dreadful homophobia.

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