A sighting of a woman who supposedly died years ago sparks a desperate search for the truth in this breakout suspense thriller, perfect for readers of The Good Girl and The Widow.
Sometimes we choose to see only what we want. Sometimes what we see changes the way we look at everything
Jarlath "Jar" Costello's girlfriend, Rosa, committed suicide when they were both students at Cambridge, and Jar has thought about her every day since. It's been five years, yet Jar is still obsessed with the idea that Rosa, the one true love of his life, is alive. He's tormented by disturbingly real sightings of herexperiences the psychologist treating him describes as "post-bereavement hallucinations."
When Jar receives a message from Rosa's aunt telling him that she's found Rosa's diary, he embarks on a frantic quest to finally make sense of the highly suspicious circumstances surrounding her death. But the deeper he digs, the more confused he becomes as he is pressed into a dark underworld where nothing is as it seems and no one can be trusted. When a startling discovery convinces him more than ever that these are not just hallucinationsthat Rosa really is aliveJar is thrust into the heart of a larger intrigue that may finally shed some light on Rosa's death even as it dangerously threatens his own life.
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“This compelling audiobook takes listeners on a psychological roller-coaster ride as they consider how far they would go for the people they love. Jarleth “Jar” Costello, voiced by narrator Alex Wyndham, serves as the primary storyteller as he tries to discover what really happened to his girlfriend. Despondent over the death of her father and struggling in college, Rosa—expertly voiced, primarily through journal entries, by Katharine McEwan—supposedly committed suicide. But Jar and her own family don’t believe it. The story spans six years and is told from three perspectives: Jar’s, Rosa’s, and her uncle Martin’s, narrated by Derek Perkins. Listeners are forced to evaluate what they believe in this quest to discover the truth.”
— AudioFiles
“Intricately woven and heart-stoppingly believable, this has bestseller written all over it.”
— Clare Mackintosh, New York Times bestselling author“A marvelously suspenseful book that keeps you turning pages well past midnight…You’ll keep guessing until the final mind-bending twist.”
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J. S. Monroe attended Cambridge University and worked as a freelance journalist in London and as a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4. He was a foreign correspondent in Delhi for the Daily Telegraph and was on its staff in London as Weekend Editor. He lives in Wiltshire, England, with his wife and their three children.
Katharine McEwan is an English-born actress and an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. Her theater credits include Private Lives at Long Beach Playhouse, The Verdi Girls at Laguna Playhouse, Night Mother at Stage Lee Strasberg, and Hamlet at the Next Stage. She has also appeared in numerous independent and Hollywood films.
Derek Perkins is a professional narrator and voice actor. He has earned numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration, as well as numerous Society of Voice Arts nominations. AudioFile magazine named him a Best Voice consecutively in 2014, 2015, and 2016. Augmented by a knowledge of three foreign languages and a facility with accents, he has narrated numerous titles in a wide range of fiction and nonfiction genres.
Alex Wyndham, an Oxford University and Royal Academy of Dramatic Art graduate, is a narrator and voice talent who can be heard on Apple TV campaigns and Discovery Channel documentaries. He also has a successful screen career and has starred in several BBC and HBO shows, including the Emmy-winning Little Dorrit and Rome, and in films including Kenneth Branagh’s As You Like It.