Upstanding Young Man

A Novel

De: Sharon Doering

Narrado por: Josh Hurley, Megan Tusing

In a quiet Chicago suburb, a star wrestler goes missing weeks before his high school graduation, shattering his mother’s carefully curated image of domestic bliss.

A pulse-pounding thriller with complicated family dynamics, perfect for fans of domestic suspense writers like Mary Kubica and Jennifer Hillier.

Meg Hart has taken great pains to create her perfect All-American family. It looks effortless, but that’s because she’s been smart about it.

However, on a brisk spring morning weeks before his graduation, her son McClane goes missing. And as the investigation deepens, the police zero in on her as their perfect suspect. Tragedy has struck this family before, and all signs suggest that she is the source. Add in her elusive husband’s strange behavior and inconsistencies in her story, it becomes clear that she has plenty to hide.

Before he disappears, it turns out McClane has secrets of his own: a pregnant girlfriend, a shocking truth about his wrestling career, and a chilling discovery—the person he trusts most has betrayed him in the worst way.

Alternating between Meg’s perspective in the initial days of the investigation and McClane’s in the hours leading up to his disappearance, Upstanding Young Man is packed with relentless tension and short, fast-paced chapters that will keep listeners up all night.

©2025 Sharon Doering (P)2025 Audible, Inc.

could not stop listening!

edge of your seat. listened to it in a day and a half. it was just thrilling and not easy to figure out!

Great book!

I loved this book! It was a great read. The narrators were great. The story was different and I couldn’t get enough. I was trying to figure out who and why. I would def recommend!

Excelente !¡!

Anyone who has read my reviews knows I’m super hard on the story and the narrator and overall rarely give 5 stars.
This book is worth 5 stars across the board. I enjoyed every second. Fantastic story The narrator was fantastic. Both of them. The characters were realistic, and I enjoyed loving them and hating them. The way the story unfolds keeps you entertained and intrigued. I absolutely love this book.

The pace kept my interest

The pace kept my interest. The storytelling was vivid and got me invested in the characters

Engaging, decent, but flawed

Overall, I enjoyed this book. The plot kept me engaged and the performance of the narrators was top notch. However, several times throughout the book, the author is excessively over descriptive, just to pad the book, which leads to several "OK, we get it. Move on." moments. It gives rise to eye rolling and pulled me from the story. I would still recommend the book to any mystery and suspense fan though. Worth the read.

Save Yourselves

I only made it to the end because I wanted to know the resolution and because I didn't have a magnum of chloroform on me. I seriously wanted to kill Meg myself. She is literally the stupidest "heroine" I have ever encountered in a book. Every decision she makes is the wrong one, and not in a sympathetic way. She's just inexplicable. Meg wants to keep secrets even when there's no secret to keep. Lying is second nature to her, which might make sense in another story, but not here. It just makes the listener wish to God they had selected anything else. She is afraid of what everyone thinks, yet alienates people with her callous indifference to anyone except the voices in her head, is afraid of her upsetting her children, doesn't comprehend real danger (her son is missing; her concern is what the school secretary might think about him and takes offense to a police investigation), and refuses to believe that her family is capable of doing anything besides being amazing, despite their outstanding mediocrity and fairly unpleasant personalities.

Do not waste your time.