Touch & Go: A Novel Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B00AYKHRO8 | Format: PDF
Touch & Go: A Novel Description
This is my family: Vanished without a trace....
Justin and Libby Denbe have the kind of life you'd find in the pages of a glossy magazine: A beautiful 14-year-old daughter. A gorgeous brownstone on a tree-lined street in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood. A great marriage, admired by all. A perfect life.
This is what I know: Pain has a flavor....
When investigator Tessa Leone arrives at the crime scene in the foyer of the Denbes' home, she finds scuff marks on the floor and a million tiny pieces of bright green Taser confetti. The family appears to have been abducted, with only a pile of their cell phones and electronic devices remaining. No witnesses, no ransom demands, no motive. Just a perfect little family, gone.
This is what I fear: The worst is yet to come....
Tessa knows better than anyone that flawless fronts can hide the darkest secrets. Now she must race against the clock to uncover the Denbes' innermost dealings, a complex tangle of friendships and betrayal, big business and small sacrifices. Who would want to kidnap such a perfect little family? And how far would such a person be willing to go?
This is the truth: Love, safety, family . . . it's all touch and go.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 14 hours and 29 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Brilliance Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: February 5, 2013
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00AYKHRO8
Lisa Gardner is one of the reigning queens of domestic drama. She places families in pressure-cooker situations, and we watch as they struggle to survive physically and emotionally. In "Touch and Go," Justin Denbe, his wife, Libby, and their fifteen-year-old daughter, Ashlyn, are all under duress. Justin is "a man's man," attractive, charming, ambitious, and the heir to his father's multi-million dollar construction business. The Denbes live in a luxurious Boston town house. One evening, after Justin and Libby return from a romantic dinner, three men invade their home, abduct both parents and their child, and spirit the three of them away to a hiding place in northern New Hampshire.
Former Massachusetts state trooper and single mom, twenty-nine year old Tessa Leoni, is an employee of Northledge Investigations. She is hired by Justin's firm to "assess the scene and conduct an independent analysis of the situation." (Boston Detective Sergeant D. D. Warren makes a brief appearance and catches up with Tessa, whom she encountered during a previous case.) Also involved in the investigation are a pair of FBI agents and Sergeant Wyatt Foster of New Hampshire, who soon has his eye on Tessa. In the chapters that Libby narrates, she recalls her difficult childhood, the whirlwind romance that led to her marriage, and the immense joy that she and Justin felt when Ashlyn was born. Unfortunately, the past six months have not been easy, since Libby and Justin's marriage has started to deteriorate. Now, she fears that they all will die at the hands of their brutal captors.
Gardner opens her novel with a bang and keeps us guessing for several hundred pages. As it progresses, however, the overly long narrative becomes increasingly repetitious.
Read from January 15 to 16, 2013
BOOK SYNOPSIS
This is my family: Vanished without a trace. . . .
Justin and Libby Denbe have the kind of life you'd find in the pages of a glossy magazine. A beautiful fifteen-year-old daughter. A gorgeous brownstone on a tree-lined street in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood. A great marriage, admired by all. A perfect life.
This is what I know: Pain has a flavor. . . .
When investigator Tessa Leone arrives at the crime scene in the foyer of the Denbes' home, she finds scuff marks on the floor and a million tiny pieces of bright green Taser confetti. The family appears to have been abducted, with only a pile of their cell phones and electronic devices remaining. No witnesses, no ransom demands, no motive. Just a perfect little family, gone.
This is what I fear: The worst is yet to come. . . .
Tessa knows better than anyone that flawless fronts can hide the darkest secrets. Now she must race against the clock to uncover the Denbes' innermost dealings, a complex tangle of friendships and betrayal, big business and small sacrifices. Who would want to kidnap such a perfect little family? And how far would such a person be willing to go?
This is the truth: Love, safety, family . . . it's all touch and go
My Thoughts
Favorite quote: Pain has a flavor. But hope does, too.
Favorite scene: Libby making her version of homemade cinnamon rolls for her family and their kidnappers, you could smell the gooey richness and feel the roll melt in your mouth it was described so well.
The story of a "perfect All American family" living the "American Dream" of excess, wealth, privilege and lies!
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