Caller Unknown

A Novel

De: Gillian McAllister

Narrado por: Juliet Rylance

BROUGHT TO LIFE BY AUDIO NARRATOR JULIET RYLANCE

A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • "An unputdownable adventure that was both heartwarming and thrilling! Everything I've come to expect from Gillian McAllister!" —Freida McFadden, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author

How far would you go to rescue your child? A mother races against the clock—and finds herself on the wrong side of the law—in a desperate fight to save her teenage daughter in this pulse-pounding thriller from the author of Reese’s Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller Wrong Place Wrong Time.

There is nothing that Simone won’t do for her daughter, Lucy. The two have always been close, and with Lucy about to leave home for university, they depart the UK for a vacation to Texas to spend some quality time together. But when Simone awakens on their first morning in the desert, Lucy is gone, missing from their rental cabin. In her place is a cell phone, and a voice on the other line issues a shocking ransom demand. Don’t tell the police. Come to this location. And be prepared to do a deal…

Though Simone’s husband urges her to bring in the authorities for help, she knows she can’t take any chances. The kidnappers might kill Lucy if she tells anyone. No mother would take that risk. Instead, that night, she drives to the isolated meet-up.

What she finds there changes everything. The mysterious kidnapper doesn’t want money. They want Simone to do something. The unthinkable.

A catastrophic chain of events is set in motion, with chilling consequences that extend beyond Simone and her family. What follows is a heart-pounding journey through the small towns and punishing deserts of remote Texas, in which Simone’s courage—and morality—is pushed to the brink as she discovers what it truly means to be a mother.

Unbearably tense, compassionately told, and full of well-crafted moral dilemmas, Caller Unknown proves once again why Gillian McAllister’s thrillers are “the best of the best” (Lisa Jewell).

Sooooo Good!

I loved this book from first page. Finished in two sittings!! Keeps you reading. Both a thriller and the story of a mother’s love.

Moved very slow, it was ok. But not as captivating as this author’s other books.

Moved too slowly, didn’t keep my interest. I pre bought this book with great expectations, but I was wrong.

Too Slow

I kept waiting for it to grab me, but it never did. The story unfolded at an incredibly slow pace and the main character has so much internal dialogue that it bored me.

Slow and repetitive but great ending

Many of these domestic thrillers are fun reads with unsatisfying endings. This one was very well thought out with a great twisty ending, if you can get through the slow parts.

Epic mother and daughter story

Wonderful writing although a bit slow really have to stick with it in order for story to fully come together and reach satisfying crescendo. Felt novel could have been edited a bit as became repetitious over time with regard to the internal thought passages.