Prime logo Prime members: New to Audible?
Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.
Find Me  By  cover art

Find Me

By: Carol O'Connell
Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
Try for $0.00

$14.95/month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $23.36

Buy for $23.36

Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.

Publisher's summary

A mutilated body is found lying on the ground in Chicago, a dead hand pointing down Adams Street - also known as Route 66, a road of many names and now of many deaths.

A silent caravan of cars, dozens of them, drives down that road, each passenger bearing a photograph, but none of them the same. They are the parents of missing children, some recently disappeared, some gone a decade or more, all brought together by word that children's grave sites are being discovered along the Mother Road. Kathy Mallory drives with them. The child she seeks, though, is not like the others. It is herself, the feral child adopted off the streets, her father a blank, her mother dead and full of mysteries.

During the next few extraordinary days, Mallory will find herself hunting a killer like no one she has ever known, and will undergo a series of revelations of stunning intensity and effect.

©2007 Carol O'Connell (P)2007 Listen and Live Audio Inc.

Critic reviews

"One of the most poetic yet tough-minded writers." (San Francisco Chronicle)

What listeners say about Find Me

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    117
  • 4 Stars
    97
  • 3 Stars
    51
  • 2 Stars
    17
  • 1 Stars
    25
Performance
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    69
  • 4 Stars
    30
  • 3 Stars
    7
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    2
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    66
  • 4 Stars
    31
  • 3 Stars
    13
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    2

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars

some will some will not

For the money this was a pretty good listen. The female character may have been a little unbelieveable , but heck it is a book.
In spite of the subject matter, it did not have to many horrible child murder moments.
Would make a darn good movie.
A truly wonderful ending.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

11 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    1 out of 5 stars

orrie

Confusing, not compelling, quit before I finished the book.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

7 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    1 out of 5 stars

Bored and disinterested

The story started out as a rambling, inconsistent mess. There was not enough information about the character or storyline to catch your interest. I am 1/2 into the first book and still am confused 'what is the point'. The main character is strange, unfriendly and rude. A brief description about her being a 'street child' may explain her hatefulness, but it does not explain why her foster family took her in and kept her and loved her dearly. If she had been raised with love, it does not explain why she is so pissed off at the world and hateful to everyone. If it does not pick up within the next hour of listening, I'm giving up. The basic premise of the book, as described in the summation, sounds like it should be pretty good. Perhaps a better editor could have helped. But the main character is so unlikeable, I doubt it. This was definately a wasted download...

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

4 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    1 out of 5 stars
  • CG
  • 05-02-07

Not

I was sorely disappointed in the extremely unbelievable and unlikable character that O'Connell has degraded Mallory into. As a rough around the edges child or young adult the brashness worked, but now she's simply a mean spirited ugly woman. The author had to dumb down the surrounding characters to an insulting degree in order to bring off Mallory's smug egotistical know-it-all persona. Are we really supposed to believe that people would be in awe of and blindly follow a rude, unkind, socially retarded woman just because she has green eyes and nice hair? Totally ridiculous, tedious book.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

4 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    1 out of 5 stars

Another lost author - sigh

I loved Carol O'Connell's first several books, but the last 4 or 5 sound like they haven't been edited (they could be half the length), and the main character is not evolving at all. Really boring -- I had to force myself to finish it and it wasn't worth it.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

4 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    1 out of 5 stars

An Interminable Loser

A first review for me, but this was such a poor story I just have to speak up. It rambles more than old Route 66, with a protagonist I neither liked nor could find empathy for. Too many things were never really solved, too many people conveniently setting themselves up to be killed, etc. I was on a trip with nothing else to listen to or I would never have endured the second half of this plodder. Don't waste your points.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

3 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    2 out of 5 stars

Cries out for a good editor

O'Connell is obviously a talented writer with a gift for describing both places and characters with a few deft phrases. BUT--this rambling, inconsistent, incoherent mess cries out for a good editor. If you must experience it, the book would be better read than listened to, so that you can flip back when you reach those "Huh!?" moments. But I must say the narrator did as well as she possibly could with the material.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    1 out of 5 stars

Beginning and ending

The very beginning of this novel is tantalizing and very visual. Characters abound but they are not developed. And the story seems to ramble. Every chapter sounds alike. Narration is very dramatic.
Then it ends with an epilogue as long or longer than any of the previous chapters.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars

Mallory's Journey

Fans of Carol O'Connell's outstanding Mallory series will rejoice at the return of Kathy Mallory and her friends in this extended journey into crime, punishment...and into the past along the fabled "Mother Road" Route 66.

"It winds from Chicago to LA..." and Mallory is part of a grisy road trip where among the roadside attractions are the graves of murdered children, a band of searching parents.....and a serial killer. But past and present merge into this caravan of tears....and more often than not Mallory's quest is a detour into her own past, a myriad of dead ends....and an unexpected revelation at the end of the road.

O'Connell is such a wonderful writer, the reader will hang on for the twists and turns on this road trip which moves faster than the VW with a Porsche engine Kathy so ably steers in dark terriory.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    1 out of 5 stars

Disorganized and Confusing

I hated Find Me. It was confusing and hard to follow. The scene shifted too often and without proper transition, and there were too many characters. To make matters worse, the author would often call one of the previously named characters by a generic name (like "the old man") so it was unclear who was referenced. I was extremely glad to reach the end of this exhausting and frustrating book.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful