Snatched

De: Stephen Edger

Narrado por: Catherine O'Brien

Approximately 150,000 children go missing in the UK every year. That's one child every three and a half minutes.

Abduction:

Every parent's worst nightmare: Seven-year-old Natalie Barrett is snatched while walking home from school on a Friday afternoon. The police begin a desperate hunt to find her before it is too late. They fear the worst when a body is located near a golf course.

The fallout:

Sarah Jenson is Natalie's teacher. When one of the detectives on the case is suddenly killed, Sarah believes the events may be linked and begins to search for answers. With suspects stacking up, she is in a race against time to discover the true identity of the perpetrator before Natalie winds up as another statistic.

Unanswered questions:

Where were Natalie's parents when they should have been collecting her? Why was Natalie so scared of her uncle Jimmy? Could a convicted sexual offender from Sarah's past be involved?

Children not found within the first 72 hours rarely return home alive. Sarah knows the clock is ticking....

Abduction, terror, suspense, and sorrow: Snatched is a breathtaking British crime thriller set in Southampton.

©2012 Stephen Edger (P)2015 Stephen Edger

Has promise but misses the mark.

There was a lot wrong with this book and yet I somehow felt compelled to see it through to the end. The characters were not particularly likeable and frankly behaved in the most ridiculous and unsympathetic of ways. The dialogue was clunky and unnatural and the narrator frequently mispronounced or repeated words, at one point she laughed and then repeated an entire section! The story was pretty straightforward and the ‘who’ was easy to guess, yet I ploughed on. I can’t see myself buying any of this author’s other books (though he’s very popular) the lack of attention to important detail annoyed me too much (since when have the emergency services operators told you that you can only have the police OR the ambulance and not both?!) but if you are prepared to suspend disbelief for a few hours then the story isn’t terrible.

Snatched

This was a really good book. While the subject is upsetting, this story needs to be told.