No Show

De: Simon Wood

Narrado por: Luke Daniels

Terry lands at San Francisco International Airport ready to start his new life with Sarah, the American journalist he married after a transatlantic love affair. But Sarah’s a no show. Convinced something terrible has happened, Terry reports Sarah’s disappearance to the sheriff, who shrugs it off as a case of a new bride with cold feet. But then dead women start turning up, all with two things in common: each victim had exposed a scandal just before her death...and all of their names appear on a list written by Sarah. As a journalist, Sarah has revealed her share of scandals, and Terry realizes that she’s not missing - she’s on the run.

As his American dream rapidly descends into a waking nightmare, Terry must plunge headlong into the dark recesses of his new homeland to find Sarah before the killer does. But as he nears the truth about Sarah, he realizes she’s very different from the woman he thought he married.

©2013 Simon Wood (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Good thriller

This was a decent mystery/thriller. I thought the ending was well done...and the freezer scene made me a little claustrophobic! I listened to this on audio and thought the narration was okay; the narration for one of the characters seemed a little over the top at times.

Great story

If you like Simon Wood's previous books you are sure to like this one. I think he is an
author who gets better and better with each book.
This story has a fairly simple premise, but Wood gets so much plot out of it, I was quite impressed. Terry is a likable character and you can't help but root for him the whole time. He may not always make the right choices, but his heart is in the right place.
The plot has many twists and turn and surprising moments. I kept thinking I had it figured out, but never quite did.
My only complaint is that this narrator had a sort of nebulous English accent for Terry. Sometimes he even sounded Australian. But other than that his reading was good.
There is mystery, intrigue and suspense in No Show. I recommend it.

Great story

I have grown to really like Simon Wood's stories. Great combination of action and mystery. He does like to kill off a lot of people! I love how clear of sex and swearing they are.

Listened to it in 1 day

Where does No Show rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Good

What about Luke Daniels’s performance did you like?

I LOVE his narration voice. His feminine voices are my favorite but the males are usually very good. For some reason, in this series, he chose to make the supporting male voices dumb or valley boy.

Good book, with weird portrayal of Americans

... at least in my perspective, this book portrays friendly USians as idiotically loud characters who were metaphorically "raised in a barn". Others as sinister, untrustworthy characters. The wife (Sarah) was barely defined at all, even to her husband. This is a very good thriller, although I could suss out the killer easily. A frightening situation indeed to land in an unknown country, in a wholly new culture without an atom of support, and an "AWOL" wife. This mystery and vulnerability is what made the book interesting. The narration is VG, despite the portrayal of goofy, over-the-top, American "enthusiasm". (Wow.. I hope US ppl don't actually behave this way in England. If so, how embarrassing!)