Local Gone Missing
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Narrated by:
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Gabrielle Glaister
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Mr Nicholas Guy Smith
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Jayne Entwistle
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By:
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Fiona Barton
About this listen
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Elise King is a successful and ambitious detective—or she was, before medical leave left her unsure if she'd ever return to work. She now spends most days watching the growing tensions in her small seaside town of Ebbing: the weekenders in their fancy clothes, renovating old bungalows into luxury homes, and the locals resentful of the changes.
Elise can only guess what really happens behind closed doors. But Dee Eastwood, her cleaner, often knows. She's an invisible presence in many of the houses in town, but she sees and hears everything.
The conflicts in town boil over when a newcomer wants to put Ebbing on the map with a giant music festival and two teenagers overdose on drugs. When a man also disappears the first night of the festival, Elise is drawn back into her detective work and starts digging for answers. Ebbing is a small town, but it's full of myriad secrets and hidden connections that run deeper and darker than Elise could have ever imagined.
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- Gemma Bartholomew
- 05-07-22
Excellent
Fiona Barton can do no wrong with me - her stories are always so well written I couldn't stop listening
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- The Ebook reader
- 18-12-24
Superb British Crime
I'm a big fan of Fiona Barton because I find her writing and characters completely authentic. this book didn't disappoint and, although different to her previous stories, was a tremendous listen.
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- Clance
- 15-04-23
Enjoyable plot
The story was good, it kept me listening, the cleaners voice was very Annoying like she needed winding up. Overall easy listening
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- elizsheba
- 14-06-22
Enjoyable
Yet another page turner from F Barton. Such a pleasure to follow her characters and to untangle the story.
Thank you very much Ms Barton!
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- Toni Ann Sleddon
- 27-05-24
Good story line, but difficult to follow
Had to really concentrate on this book initially, although it seemed to pull together well at the end.
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- rachel mcsloy
- 24-07-24
A good story terrible narration from the Dee the cleaner
The overall story was good but no where near as good the previous books by the author
The narrator who played Dee was so irritatingly slow!!!
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- Blondie
- 10-06-24
Enjoyable
An entertaining listen, well structured with some surprises and effectively narrated. Characters a bit two dimensional.
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- Jessica, London
- 29-06-22
Missing the team from the previous 3
This was good, however, the previous 3 have been so brilliant that I was a bit disappointed with this one. I was looking forward to hearing more about the main characters in the previous books, but they didn’t feature this time. The plot in this one wasn’t as strong as the previous three either, though it’s still full of suspense.
The narration in this was as consistently good as in previous Fiona Barton books, so no criticisms there.
All in all, I can’t help feeling that if I hadn’t already listened to 3 previous Fiona Barton books all of which had me on the edge of my seat, I’d probably be raving about how good this is, but the others were better. I think I might re-listen to the first 3 now.
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- Claire
- 18-07-22
Good story, shame about one of narrators
Another good Fiona Barton story but a word3 choice for one of the narrators who is supposed to be 27 but sounds much older.
Worth a listen though.
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- Passion for Podencos
- 17-06-22
Not a patch on her previous thrillers imo
I was spellbound by Fiona Barton's previous three books - I did not like the Child or The Widow at times as they do not pull any punches and although not gory or gruesome they can cover some unsettling and dark topics. However I adored The Suspect and thought it was just brilliant.
It has been some time since I read the previous books but I think honestly I would never have guessed they were by the same author. Not that "Local Gone Missing" is bad but I just did not find myself immersed and gripped as the previous three.
I found I could not really get a good picture of the policewomen involved and I did find Charlie and Pauline a rather unlikely couple.
First off - great for once the missing person was not a woman as I expected it to be, second I admire the non ageist characterisation of Pauline as a glamorous and voraciously appetited 75 year old who is shown as a strong willed dynamic woman and not a tragically delusional figure of fun. Ditto her similarly aged husband Charlie who also is leading a very full and complex live with no apologies or allowances made for his age.
Of course they are not the average couple irrespective of age, so why shouldn't they be still seen as valid characters leading exciting lives as many 70 somethings do and have always done.
The story was told as so many are, jumping back and forth and as I was not totally enthralled I did find it a bit hard to follow and had to keep going back to make sure I had not missed anything.
I did find also two coincidences that I found hard to swallow and I gave up before the end as a pre-order I had been looking forward to arrived in and I felt I had sort of got most of what it had to give.
Narration was fine, one of the female narrators had that kind of voice that sounds as if she has just finished a digestive biscuit and washed it down with a cup of tea - it is an attractive quality but always makes me feel slightly peckish!
And that I suppose is a good metaphor for the whole book- bit of a storm in a teacup which left me rather unsatisfied and craving something I could really get my teeth into.
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