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Viable Hostage

By: Audrey J. Cole
Narrated by: Marcio Catalano, Veronica Pace
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Summary

Malorie’s best friend is missing, but no one seems concerned about the wayward medical student's mysterious disappearance - until another student's partial remains wash ashore a Seattle beach....

When Malorie witnesses her best friend and roommate leave a campus bar with a mystery date driving a silver Mercedes, she suspects foul play, especially when Lani fails to return home the next day. Both women, med students in their final year at Elliott Bay University, have a lot riding on the line, but due to Lani’s wild past, no one in her family is worried. When Malorie’s fears for her roommate deepen, she turns to her Uncle Wade, a sergeant at Seattle Homicide.

Within 48 hours after Lani goes missing, the partial remains of a brutally murdered young woman wash up on Alki Beach, and a human hand is found in a crab pot off Bainbridge Island. When one of the bodies is identified as a pregnant, fourth-year medical student, Wade believes there’s a connection with Lani’s disappearance. And, that they might be looking for a serial killer.

Malorie suspects Lani’s kidnapper is someone they know, possibly even one of their professors at the university, a prominent Seattle anesthesiologist whose wife is the president of EBU. But when Detective Blake Stephenson discovers evidence that links another suspect to the professor’s Mercedes, he and Wade must act fast to attempt a wild rescue in the middle of Puget Sound.

©2019 Audrey J. Cole (P)2024 Audrey J. Cole
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Great story, excellent narration

I Really enjoyed this one, part medical thriller, part police procedural with a little amateur sleuthing thrown into the mix. The story is strong with great characters, although the lead female is a bit whiney, some nice twists and turns and an excellent climax. The two narrators compliment each other and the story and are easy to listen too. Highly recommended. I received a complimentary copy of the audio book and am leaving a honest voluntary review.

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Great Thriller! Great Narration!

Viable Hostage by Audrey J. Cole pulled me in immediately. Medical thrillers have always appealed to me, and this one is fantastic. The author wrote characters that are compelling, unexpected twists and several red herrings. Both narrators, Marcio Catalano and Veronica Pace were perfectly cast for this book. They add the right emotions to this listen and really bring the characters to life.

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You will become a hostage to this story

You will become a hostage to this story until the end, it is that good I didn't want to pause it for a second. I loved this book. I liked the suspense and spent the whole book trying to work out who the killer was. With plenty of clues I kept changing my mind and it is definitely a story you can listen to again. The characters were likeable and had you rooting for the good guys, I just hope the author plans to write about them a lot more.
When Malorie flighty room mate dumps her at a bar, she knows something is wrong. But Lani has pulled a disappearing act before and no body else is worried even when she fails to turn up for a big family event. Malorie turns to the one person she know she can always turn to her Uncle Wade. Despite his wife about to give birth the Seattle Homicide sergeant goes to the prescient to file a missing person case. Only to learn Lani isn't the only medical student to have gone missing and both girls had the same secret. A secret that only the killer knows about, that is until a body is found. Malorie tries to carry on with her every day life but everybody she use to call a friend begins to look like a suspect and someone doesn't want her or her Uncle looking to hard for the missing girl.
I liked the use of the male and female narrators it added another dimension to the story making it very easy to listen to and enjoyable.
I highly recommend this book.

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A fighting chance

When Malorie's room mate and friend, Lani, unexpectedly walks out on her when they were out for the evening, then fails to return next day, she is concerned that something has happened to her. No one else, not even her family, seem worried: Lani had pulled similar tricks in the past. But in recent months she had changed. So Malorie speaks to her uncle, a police sergeant, who takes her worries seriously, especially when body parts, later identified as other students from the same medical facility, are washed up or fished from the bay. They are right to be concerned: Lani had, indeed, been kidnapped.

This medical thriller is both well conceived and constructed and, although the actual perpetrator of the grisly procedures is overly easy to identify far too soon, the actual crimes themselves are an unexpected raison d'etre, with the blood and guts aspect fortunately more implanted in the reader's mind than in print. Ms.Cole's medical knowledge adds authenticity to her writing without becoming over technical and the main protagonists are well characterised. Narration is cleverly divided between Marcio Catalano and Veronica Pace, each reading chapters more relevant to the point of view of either Lani or Malorie (Ms.Pace) or the Seattle detectives and police (Mr.Catalano), additionally, giving voice to female or male protagonists within each other's chapters. It was skilfully done and added aural texture to the overall delivery. A good performance from both.

This is a gripping thriller to be enjoyed by anyone who enjoys murder mysteries and serial killers, medical or otherwise. My thanks to the rights holder who, at my request, freely gifted me with a complimentary copy. Not overly lengthy, it was substantial enough to remain absorbing and gripping without getting snagged up with irrelevance. And although containing gory medical subject matter, sufficient to make anyone squeamis, the details, mercifully, are left to the immagination. Recommended

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Another great listen

Really enjoyed this. I would definitely recommend this author, so far I have listened to 3 of her book and each one was well written and held my interest.

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