Wonderland
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Narrated by:
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Eunice Wong
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By:
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Jennifer Hillier
About this listen
From the bestselling author of the hugely popular thrillers Things We Do in the Dark, Little Secrets, and Jar of Hearts comes Wonderland, a roller coaster of a listen. Now in audio for the first time!
After a personal tragedy and professional scandal forces homicide detective Vanessa Castro out of Seattle, she takes a new job in Seaside, Washington, determined to make a fresh start for herself and her family. The small beach town, best known for its popular amusement park, Wonderland, seems like the perfect place to raise her young son and teenage daughter.
But it's not that easy starting over, especially as the town's new Deputy Chief of Police. When a dead body turns up at the park her first day on the job, and then a teenage Wonder Worker goes missing, Vanessa's investigation is met with resistance. After all, Wonderland is the largest amusement park in the Pacific Northwest, attracting tourists from all over the country and providing thousands of jobs for the locals. A scandal that hurts the park hurts the town, but the more questions Vanessa asks, the more questions arise . . . especially when she learns that the missing teenage boy is the not the first park employee to disappear. The deeper she goes, the more she begins to suspect that the terrifying rumors about Wonderland's dark past might actually be true.
Surrounded by secrets, lies, and corruption at the highest levels, Vanessa's family is now in the center of a serial killer's twisted game . . . and there's nobody she can trust but herself.
A Macmillan Audio Production.
©2015 Jennifer Hillier (P)2023 Macmillan AudioGripping from start to finish
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I'm going to listen to another one now.
Another riveting story from Jennifer
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In addition to this, there is one detail in the story which just doesn’t sit right with me. Toward the end of the book, a random inconsequential character is transgender, seemingly for no reason other than to disparage them. It was so weird, I kept thinking that their transition would somehow prove to be important later in the story. But no, the writer just pointed out that a trans character had a masculine physique and looked strange wearing makeup and this had absolutely nothing to do with the story. It felt really uncomfortable and I couldn’t understand why the author included it.
The narrator was okay and did a reasonably good job distinguishing between the different character voices.
As you can probably guess, I don’t recommend this book.
Truly terrible
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