Come Home

By: Lisa Scottoline

Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed

Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins

Publisher's summary

Lisa Scottoline has delivered taut thrillers with a powerful emotional wallop in her New York Times best-sellers Save Me, Think Twice, and Look Again. Now, with her new novel, Come Home, she ratchets up the suspense with the riveting story of a mother who sacrifices her future for a child from her past.

Jill Farrow is a typical suburban mom who has finally gotten her and her daughter's lives back on track after a divorce. She is about to remarry, her job as a pediatrician fulfills her - though it is stressful - and her daughter, Megan, is a happily overscheduled thirteen-year-old juggling homework and the swim team. But Jill’s life is turned upside down when her ex-stepdaughter, Abby, shows up on her doorstep late one night and delivers shocking news: Jill’s ex-husband is dead. Abby insists that he was murdered and pleads with Jill to help find his killer. Jill reluctantly agrees to make a few inquiries and discovers that things don’t add up. As she digs deeper, her actions threaten to rip apart her new family, destroy their hardearned happiness, and even endanger her own life. Yet Jill can’t turn her back on a child she loves and once called her own.Come Home reads with the breakneck pacing of a thriller while also exploring the definition of motherhood, asking the questions: Do you ever stop being a mother? Can you ever have an exchild? What are the limits to love of family?

©2012 Lisa Scottoline (P)2012 Macmillan Audio

Love Lisa Scottoline

Love the way it is hard to put it down. She is an awesome author

Surprised I made it past the first chapter

Horrid whining, crying and screeching narration for the first chapter. I don't know where the narrator got the idea that they had to do what they did to convey emotion- there are great narrators who emote without all that. The story was ok- just ok- I certainly wouldn't listen to it again. If you are interested I this kind of story I suggest you buy the book.

The narration was annoying and took away from the story

Too much drama from the narrator! And why does Meghan develop a lisp in the 2nd chapter?? Annoying to listen to but good story

Oh no...my ears!!!

The first 5-6 chapters of this book is non-stop crying, wailing and screeching. Like the previous reviewer, for me it was nearly intolerable. Whatever happens during this sobfest could be handled easily in one or two chapters max.

Other than the narration, the story was actually pretty good, even though I did not find the main character's controlling behavior relatable or likable at all. I guess there's a reason for all the step-children, ex-step-children, present bio child but the confusion muddied the waters for me. But then, if there weren't all these conflicting previous children of previous spouses, and all the micro-managing behavior, there would be no story.

I actually liked the main character's husband and took his side in all the arguments.

enjoyable read

Thank you for an entertaining performance and deep characters. my first book by this author.

No impressed

I usually don't write reviews but this time I felt so strongly that I should. The narrator was awful. From the start, she made the teenager in the story sound like she had cerebral palsy or Down syndrome, which she didn't. It was hard to remember that the character is a "typical" teen and the narrator's talking like she has marbles in her mouth can be very distracting.
The story line is okay, but not up to par for Scottoline. I usually like her work and this was a let-down. It was not realistic at all, not believable, and there were so many holes in the story that became annoying. Finally, there were a lot of metaphors that were so flowery and pseudo-poetic to the point that it took away from the imagery rather than adding to it. I don't know what Scottoline was trying to do but it was like she had a bunch of pretty lines from a poem and decided to sprinkle them into every other sentence of this book. It turned me off from Scottoline for a while and I will steer clear of this narrator for certain!!

Good storyline

I would recommend this book if you want to read it yourself.
The narrator has different voices and some of them sound strange.
I think it is overdone and it makes it hard to listen to. The phone rings-Brrrrring! Really?

interning, novel

well I thought the book was very interesting and it kept my interest throughout oh, I thought it was a bit long. that may have been necessary to include all the details that were included in this book. it was very thorough and you really knew that the details were well-researched. so therefore I recommend it I would give it a a 4 and also the storyline that would give a 5 but I think it was very interesting and again I would highly recommend it if you are looking for a mystery novel.

Bad narrator

Any additional comments?

As anyone who listens frequently, you know a narrator can make or break an audiobook. This narrator broke it. The story is interesting to the point I think it makes you want to know what happens. I feel like there was over-development of characters such as the main character's daughter Megan, but not enough development of her step-daughter who enters the book with the shocking news and then disappears for the rest of the book until the end. There were a lot of stories going on within the story at times and it made the book feel disjointed at times. Not one of my favs by her, but not the worst either.

Once again, Scottoline writes an entertaining tale

Lisa Scottoline has become one of my favorite authors. I find her books quite entertaining. I read for pleasure and escapism, not facts or history; so the minor inaccuracies in the book and happily ever story line are just fine with me. I listened to the book while driving back and forth to work and doing housework. It definitely made the time go by quickly.