Acceptable 'Plus' Selection

J.A. Baker offers a tale following the abduction & imprisonment of a pair of young women - written capably with an excellent feel for building tension. Unfortunately, every storyline contributing to the overall plot strains credulity. It takes a huge effort to accept any of these characters and events as even remotely plausible.

As to presentaton: The full-cast performance of the audiobook is easily the best feature of this product. Gareth Bennel-Ryan, Colleen Pendergast, Hannah Kelly-Turner, and Imogen Church take advantage of exemplary technical support from Boldwood Books sound engineers to provide an outstanding interpretation of the author's efforts. True, a couple of readers sometimes sound as though they are reading from a book sitting open on their laps.. but choose this iteration if given the choice between the recording or a text (paper or eBook) version.

In toto, 'Local Girl Missing' rates 5 stars out of 10. If you manage to set aside logic, it's a serviceable 'Plus' option.. but spend your Credit elsewhere should they ask for one.

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Great Listen great suspense !!!!

This was a very unusual book for me. I loved the story, the suspense and the delivery. Beautiful narration by every voice except one that was a bit of a slow and mundane creepy like tone .
Fantastic story and it will keep you guessing. I thought several times I knew who the bad guy was but so many times I was wrong. Suspenseful and I loved it. A very shocking ending as well. Did not see that coming.
I did not give 5 starts because I found it had too many descriptions and going over and over the past and every character last . It was a bit tiring so that I kept fast forwarding a few parts.
However, this book was enjoyable and thrilling to the end. I happily recommend it. Thank you Audible Plus.

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Underdeveloped characters with limited and repetitive dialogue.

The plot, which initially was intriguing, became tiresome and boring quite quickly. Perhaps one of the dullest “mysteries” I’ve yet to read/hear. I remained with the story to the end having one, purchased the book, and two, am in the habit of finishing the books I choose to read. I don’t remember what attracted me to this book but I won’t be reading any future writing by this author.

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