We Are All the Same in the Dark
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Jenna Lamia
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Catherine Taber
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MacLeod Andrews
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Kirby Heyborne
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Written by:
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Julia Heaberlin
About this listen
National Best Seller • People Pick • Optioned by Sister Pictures for Television • The discovery of a girl abandoned by the side of the road threatens to unearth the long-buried secrets of a Texas town’s legendary cold case in this superb, atmospheric novel from the internationally best-selling author of Black-Eyed Susans
“If you only read one thriller this year, let it be this one. Psychologically absorbing, original and atmospheric. I could not turn the pages fast enough.” (Elin Hilderbrand, number-one New York Times best-selling author of 28 Summers)
It’s been a decade since Trumanell Branson disappeared, leaving only a bloody handprint behind. Her pretty face still hangs like a watchful queen on the posters on the walls of the town’s Baptist church, the police station, and in the high school. They all promise the same thing: We will find you. Meanwhile, Tru's brother, Wyatt, lives as a pariah in the desolation of the old family house, cleared of wrongdoing by the police but tried and sentenced in the court of public opinion and in a new documentary about the crime.
When Wyatt finds a lost girl dumped in a field of dandelions, making silent wishes, he believes she is a sign. The town’s youngest cop, Odette Tucker, believes she is a catalyst that will ignite a seething town still waiting for its own missing girl to come home. But Odette can’t look away. She shares a wound that won’t close with the mute, one-eyed mystery girl. And she is haunted by her own history with the missing Tru.
Desperate to solve both cases, Odette fights to save the lost girl in the present and to dig up the shocking truth about a fateful night in the past—the night her friend disappeared, the night that inspired her to become a cop, the night that wrote them all a role in the town’s dark, violent mythology.
In this twisty psychological thriller, Julia Heaberlin paints unforgettable portraits of a woman and a girl who redefine perceptions of physical beauty and strength.
Praise for We Are All the Same in the Dark
“This chilling tale of buried sins is relentlessly unpredictable.” (The Times, South Africa)
“[Julia] Heaberlin knows how to build to a truly shocking twist, how to break a reader’s heart and then begin mending it. ‘What’s coming is always unimaginable,’ Odette’s one-time therapist tells her, ‘and by that, I mean just that. It cannot be imagined. What’s coming never acts or behaves the way we think it will.’ That’s true for this novel, too.” (The Dallas Morning News)
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“I’m not sure I can put into words how much I loved this book: gorgeous writing, interesting characters, a unique setting, and an unsettling, surprising mystery. At one point, I actually gasped out loud from both the beauty of the writing and the shock of the story. We Are All the Same in the Dark has it all. Everyone needs to put this book on their to-be-read list right now! You can thank me later.” (Amy Engel, best-selling author of The Familiar Dark)
“Exceptional ... After a devastating twist halfway through, the intense plot builds to an emotional finale. Heaberlin sensitively addresses issues of survival and vulnerability in this heart-wrenching gothic tale.” (Publishers Weekly [starred review])
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-02-22
Interesting enough
I really enjoyed the female lead characters in this book. It was great to have a main character with a prosthetic limb and somewhat learn how that changes life for a person. The ending seemed a bit lacklustre and it all just kind of gets shoved into place just as the book ends. A predictable / boring villain. Nice writing and enjoyed the narrators, though.
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- Rick Webber
- 2024-07-18
Can’t say I loved this book
I found I had to really pay attention or it would put me to sleep. I found lots of the story line was not pertaining to the actual story. Kind of like “paper filler”. I do like the concept of the book, I liked the twists but I had to go back and re listen to what I just heard because I was left confused.
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- Melissa MacKenzie
- 2022-12-03
White hot mystery
If you enjoy a mystery thriller with characters that pull at your heart, you will enjoy this story. The performances of each narrator were well done and added a lot to the shaping of each character.
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- MM
- 2022-09-19
Frustrating
I feel like this could have been really good, however I didn't find Angel or Wyatt to be believable characters.
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