Such a great thriller.

After spending time in a juvenile detention center, Evelyn Jones gets a lucky break working for a reclusive business man named Donald White. It's not long after relocating to Alaska, starting the position, and making progress moving forward on the straight-and-narrow, when Evie starts to get the feeling things are not right...

This feeling, a little voice telling her to look harder at her situation, leads her down a dark path which brings her nearly to ruin, before showing her the way through the wilderness and into the justice she seeks.

Evie was a great character. She was soneone you just wanted to see things work out for. And while this book is only the first in the series, I bet her smarts, determination and morals, will get her where she wants to go. I'm already looking into the other books in this series. There are loose ends that didn't get tied up, which I need to get to the bottom of!

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DO NOT Pay Full Price

I am usually pretty good at being able to set aside logic and simply enjoy what is offered by an audiobook. I recognize that authors quite often sacrifice certain aspects of realism to tell an entertaining story. I tell myself that I should simply enjoy.
To be sure, this tale exhibits clever storytelling by formulating an interesting set of crimes and building on "Out-Of-Left-Field" (totally unpredictable) twists & turns to make them stimulating & thought-provoking, but it fairly quickly descends into the jawdroppingly improbable. In this book, Christina Dodd puts a naïve juvenile delinquent from California in a small Alaska town where she is incredibly (as in Not Credibly) framed for the murder of a young family - and then somehow escapes, changes her identity and dedicates herself to finding the man who duped her. She does so by managing a fly-in Fishing Lodge for some reason (while being pursued herself by the veangeful widower who thinks she's guilty.. and sleeping with him within minutes of their meeting).

Yeah. Strains credulity, right?

A truly well-written story (breakneck-paced plot; outstanding characterization; even distracting sex/violence/gore/horror) could make up for the absurdity and make suspending disbelief easier.. but Dodd doesn't do that. Instead, she keeps it PG-13, injects laughably irrelevant background (for Evie/Petie's mom & sister, for some reason), and compounds the crimes with headscratching attraction/sex and legitimately sophomoric prose. What - exactly - is she writing?

Vanessa Johansson actually worsens this aimless disaster through synergy..
The narration is actually pretty good in most spheres: Johansson's diction, pacing, cadence, and voice-acting are commendable - but her treble timbre and overall lighthearted tone call attention to the worst aspects of the text (truly *silly* circumstances).
In this case - bizarrely - "above-average" reading makes the product WORSE rather than improving it.

I bought 'Wrong Alibi' as a Daily Deal and the $4.95 CDN I paid for it was a *horrible* gamble. Based on variable reviews and a creditable reading sample, I thought it was worth a shot. Oh well.. lesson learned.
Involved plots can be distracting, but not in the case of this 0.5 out of 10 star recording that isn't sure what it wants to be (Thriller? Mystery? Romance?). Give it a try if you're content throwing time at a crapshoot (it might push your buttons).. but for God's sake don't spend a Credit.

[Dodd really needs to stick to her vapid Historical Romances]

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Not worth the time

The story started interesting enough but as it goes on just becoming less and less reasonable/believable and story lines did not flow well enough. I kept trying to listen and hope it will get better and I did finish. But I couldn't wait it to end fast enough. The romance elements also feel awkwardly pyt together. The only good thing is the narrator is pretty good.

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