The Vanishing Season
Ellery Hathaway Series, Book 1
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September 4, 2017
In Schaffhausen’s powerful if implausible first novel, Ellery “Ellie” Hathaway is the only cop in Woodbury, Mass., convinced that the baffling disappearances from the small town—one every July for the past three years—are connected to each other, and to sadistic imprisoned serial killer Francis Michael Coben. She’s also the only one of Coben’s victims to survive. Fearing the worst as the July window once again looms, Ellie reluctantly reaches out to the one person she thinks might be willing to help: FBI profiler Reed Markham, who cracked the Coben case 14 years earlier and rescued her. The other members of the Woodbury force are less than pleased by Markham’s arrival, especially when it’s followed within days by a grisly present on Ellie’s porch—a severed hand, Coben’s signature. Although the book’s eventual big reveal feels contrived, until then the complex plot and affecting characters—especially gritty survivor Ellie and her basset hound, Bump—make for some nail-bitingly tense thrills.
Lauren Fortgang narrates this suspenseful debut thriller. Ellery Hathaway, a small-town cop in Woodbury, Massachusetts, has a big secret. Unbeknownst to her community but revealed to listeners early on, Ellery, formerly Abigail, was kidnapped 14 years earlier by an infamous serial killer. FBI Agent Reed Markham cracked the case, and Ellery survived to start a new life. But now a series of disappearances in Woodbury could be connected to Ellery's traumatic past, and she calls on Markham, who has his own issues, for help. Fortgang trips over a few accents but is otherwise effective. She finds a nice balance between Ellery's sadness for her stolen childhood and her resolve to move on. Ellery and Markham's platonic relationship is the story's driving force, and it sounds entirely authentic, especially as voiced by Fortgang. A.T.N. � AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
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