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    Steal Away
    Steal Away
    Steal Away
    Audiobook11 hours

    Steal Away

    Written by Katharine Clark

    Narrated by Unspecified

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    About this audiobook

    Children's book illustrator Rachel Stark is living every parent's nightmare: her nine-year-old son, David, has been snatched off the street in broad daylight with no apparent motive, his red bicycle left lying on the side of the road. Now, already bearing the strain of a troubled marriage, Rachel must channel every ounce of strength into a desperate search for David.

    Complicating everything are Rachel's recently divorced sister, a bombshell who conceals explosive secrets; an icy, by-the-book detective, infuriating in his professional detachment; Rachel's own lawyer husband, Stephen, who believes he can manage the situation through bullying and logic; and a deceptive "saint" from the Missing Child Foundation, who harbors his own hidden agenda.

    Through it all there is David, crying out to be found. But are Rachel's visions of her terrified child something real or the cruel trick of a mother's heart consumed with love and fear?

    "Beautifully written and heartwrenching . . . Searingly memorable." New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen

    "This first-rate thriller . . . moves convincingly to its cliffhanger conclusion." Library Journal

    "An absorbing read." Kirkus Reviews

    "Full of real characters and raw emotions, simmering resentments and shocking revelations. Steal Away is a richly compelling mystery that twists and turns at a breakneck pace until its absorbing, thrilling conclusion. Katharine Clark knows how to write suspense." Palo Alto Daily News

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 11, 2008
    ISBN9781423359371
    Steal Away
    Author

    Katharine Clark

    Katharine Clark was an assistant attorney general in Augusta, Maine, and has worked in public interest law and general practice law. Steal Away is her first novel.

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    • 2/5
      I didn't love this story about a woman whose son is abducted. The writing is able enough, the plot moves along quickly, but the characters were badly drawn and unsympathetic. The main character, Rachel, is a frustrating choice for a protagonist. It's all about her. There is no topic that does not revolve around her and in her eyes life is so, so unfair, the people around her are all unfeeling creeps who do not feel things in the special, better way that she feels things. Rachel also loves playing the victim. In one scene, a cluster of people, including her husband, stand in the kitchen, discussing what to do next, and she sits at the counter and mournfully wonders why they don't include her. And I think, "because you can't be bothered to get up and walk six feet over to where the conversation is taking place, you big booby." Nothing can happen that doesn't hurt her more than anyone else. She focuses on how bad she feels that she has no time to ponder the fear and pain of her own son. Arghh.The other characters are lightly drawn, so that we are never given any insight into why they are behaving that way, the plot, which starts well, descends into implausibility. The book began well, and with a better plot and a more believable heroine, this book would be quite readable.
    • 5/5
      This might be the best of Kate Flora's books - she's always excellent at keeping you guessing, but here she's just superb, leaving key questions unanswered until the end, suggesting perfectly plausible answers that keep the reader from seeing the real culprit until the denouement. The characters - even the ones you just can't like - are all compelling, and there's exactly the right amount of crazy. This is Flora's only standalone novel, and the only one of her novels that's not a murder mystery. It's rather less gory and grisly than her other novels, but it's just as good if not better. She's an under-recognized and under-appreciated author of mystery fiction, but you should check her out if you have the chance.