The Vanishing Season
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Joanna Schaffhausen
"A gripping and powerful read. It is what we call edge-of-your-seat, rollercoaster of a thriller. You will not be able to put it down before you finish it."—The Washington Book ReviewWinner of the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition, Joanna Schaffhausen’s accomplished debut, The Vanishing Season, will grip readers from the opening page to the stunning conclusion.Ellery Hathaway knows about serial killers, but not through her police training. She's an officer in sleepy Woodbury, MA, where a bicycle theft still makes the newspapers. No one there knows she was once victim number seventeen in the grisly story of serial killer Francis Michael Coben. The only one who lived.When three people disappear from her town in three years, all around her birthday—the day she was kidnapped so long ago—Ellery fears someone knows her secret. Someone very dangerous. Her superiors dismiss her concerns, but Ellery knows the vanishing season is coming and anyone could be next. She contacts the one man she knows will believe her: the FBI agent who saved her from a killer’s closet all those years ago.
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Author
Joanna Schaffhausen
Pages
304
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Published Date
2019-01-08
ISBN
1250199557 9781250199553
Ratings
Google: 4
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"Really good book! Kept me on my toes till the very end. "
Enyah
"“When summer rolled around, her fellow cops looked at her like she was the crazy one, rambling on about murder, but they didn't know how it was. They hadn't been close.<br/>They'd never sat in a killer's closet and felt the claw marks in the wood, left there by the girls who had already died.”<br/><br/><br/>Joanna Schaffhausen knows how to write a mystery. The misdirection in this one was flawlessly executed; every time I thought I knew who the kidnapper was - she flipped the script. It kept me guessing and entertained throughout the whole book. <br/><br/>I listened to this as an audiobook and the emotions expressed by the narrator made me never want to put it down. While it was only one narrator for a dual POV (which can usually turn me off from an audiobook) it was executed flawlessly. <br/><br/>I really enjoyed this one, but there was something missing for me to make it a five star read. I figured if I had to think that hard about if something was five stars - it probably wasn’t.<br/><br/>That said I still highly recommend for anyone looking for:<br/><br/>"
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