Vanishing Girls

Detective Josie Quinn

By: Lisa Regan

Narrated by: Eilidh Beaton

Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins

Publisher's summary

She was close enough to see that the girl had written a word on the wall in bright, warm red blood. Not a word, actually. A name...

Everyone in the small town of Denton is searching for Isabelle Coleman, a missing 17-year-old girl. All they've found so far is her phone and another girl they didn't even know was missing.

Mute and completely unresponsive to the world around her, it's clear this mysterious girl has been damaged beyond repair. All Detective Josie Quinn can get from her is a name: Ramona.

Currently suspended from the force for misconduct, Josie takes matters into her own hands as the name leads her to evidence linking the two girls. She knows the race is on to find Isabelle alive, and she fears there may be others....

The trail leads Josie to another victim, a girl who escaped but whose case was labelled a hoax by authorities. To catch this monster, Josie must confront her own nightmares and follow her instinct to the darkest of places. But can she make it out alive?

Fans of Angela Marsons, Helen Fields, and Robert Dugoni will be utterly gripped and listening long into the night once they discover the first in this unputdownable new crime thriller series.

©2018 Lisa Regan (P)2018 Bookouture

Great storyline, awful narrator

I've tried to listen to this book for days. I'm going to stick it out because I want to see how badly the bad guys lose in the end. But that narrator....I just read the other reviews so it's not just me. Frankly, she sounds like she's ignorant. Most of the pronunciations that she destroys has nothing to do with locational accents. They're plain bad English and lack of grasp for speaking it correctly.

"Ate" is pronounced "et".
"Been" is "bean".
"Anything" is "anythin".
"OB-GYN" is "objeen".
"Massage" becomes "maaaasage" with a looonng a like baaaaa goes the sheep.
"Figure" is "figger".
"Khaki" becomes "cocky".
"Estrogen" becomes "Eeeeestrgen".
"Length" is "linth".
"Tousled" is "toosled".
"Protest" is "prahtest"

So much more. Any of this by itself would pass me by. When it goes on and on, it becomes very annoying. Top it off with a lisp. Where do people speak this English?

I wrote an author once to tell her how much I loved her books but hated her narrator. She told me she had no control over the narrator. The book company who owned her audiobooks made that decision. If I were a successful author, I think I'd make sure I had some control because a bad narrator can ruin a book. This one would be doing herself a real favor.

So today I wrote Lisa Regan, author of this book about how I loved her books, but couldn't take this narrator. She responded immediately that future books will NOT be narrated by Eilidh Beaton and they have a different narrator. Good news!

The narrator is distracting from the story and that's the last thing that should happen.

Great story, terrible narrator and producer

The mispronounced words are everywhere. Did no one editing this actually listen? I think I'll read the next installments rather than listen to this, too aggravating. I mean who actually pronounces ob-gyn as obgine or any as eni? So many words said wrong for the setting. Just no.

Very good

I really liked this book it was very intriguing and a page turner. Going to listen to the next book in series now.

👍👍

All of Regan's books have been excellently written! They keep my attention up to the end.

Really great book

Like others, at the beginning, I wasn't sure I could keep going because of the narrator, but I kept going because I wanted to get to the end and see what was happening. I am really glad I did.

just ok

Josie's brashness too damn annoying. I wanted to throat punch her many times, back off some.

The narrator's voice is horrible.

love the story!!! the narrator talked so slow and monotone that I put it at 1.3 speed to be able to tolerate it.

Good Storyline

I really enjoyed the storyline but I was continually thrown off by the narrator's mispronunciation of words throughout the story.

excellent

story is well written and full of intrigue. Josey is stubborn and curious for the truth and doesn't stop until she finds it.

Story GREAT! Narrator... not so much

The book is great. The narrator's voice is pleasant. It's her pronunciation of words that's really hard to get passed , as well as her juvenile portrayal of the adults in this book. She mispronounces MANY words. Common words. She also gives adult characters attitudes and responses (not the words, but the tone) that are equal to that of a middle school girl. I still listened to the end and will brave another book narrated by her because I like this author, I just hope she does a better job with the emotional portrayal of the characters and the word pronunciation next time.