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    Vanished
    Vanished
    Vanished
    Audiobook11 hours

    Vanished

    Written by Kat Richardson

    Narrated by Mia Barron

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    About this audiobook

    Kat Richardson's enormously popular Greywalker paranormal investigations series is now a fixture on the New York Times best-seller list. In her fourth adventure, Seattle PI Harper Blaine delves into her own past and makes some shocking discoveries. It seems that before her father committed suicide, he had witnessed some bizarre supernatural events. With barely any time to process this new info, Harper is pressured by a group of vampires into an investigation in London-where old foes and more revelations await.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMay 14, 2010
    ISBN9781449814588
    Vanished
    Author

    Kat Richardson

    KAT RICHARDSON is the nationally bestselling author of the Greywalker paranormal detective series and a co-author of the collaborative novel Indigo.

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    • 3/5
      Harper returns to Seattle in response to an urgent summons from Edward Kammerling, the vampire who rules over all of Seattle's other vampires. It's not that Harper likes him - far from it - but the vampire is too powerful for Harper to ignore or snub him. Kammerling hires her to travel to England to find out why the keeper of his accounts in that part of the world has gone silent. Harper is actually happy to have the excuse, because she's been having nightmares about her former boyfriend, Will Novak, and wants to make certain that he's okay. It has its own unique take among the enormous flood of paranormal series, which is pretty hard to do these days. In fact, just about everything is unique and not a recycled take on some other popular series. I give respect to the author for dreaming up the Grey and for not making every monster sexy. Actually any of the monsters. And especially for not creating a 3-way with love interests or the usual instant love and making it very secondary to the plot.
    • 4/5
      This installment offered some useful background information on Harper, though at times it felt like something of an info-dump. The London setting was a nice change, though it seemed to draw less heavily on the kind of urban legend landscapes that the earlier novels do in Seattle. Perhaps this isn't unexpected as Richardson lives in Seattle, and not in London.

      We finally get some information about greywalkers, and several plot points that began in the first book were followed up here.

      In all, a good installment.
    • 4/5
      This installment offered some useful background information on Harper, though at times it felt like something of an info-dump. The London setting was a nice change, though it seemed to draw less heavily on the kind of urban legend landscapes that the earlier novels do in Seattle. Perhaps this isn't unexpected as Richardson lives in Seattle, and not in London.

      We finally get some information about greywalkers, and several plot points that began in the first book were followed up here.

      In all, a good installment.
    • 4/5
      So far, my favorite book in the series.
    • 3/5
      Nice! I was very glad the main character was taken out of her comfort zone--away from Seattle--even if she did learn the geography of London a bit too quickly than I thought was realistic. I'm a bit annoyed that this was really a Part I of a II part story (to be resolved after she's back in Seattle) but enough was resolved here that I'm not too bugged by it. Although this is another character that improbably survives, it's entertaining enough that I can look past that as well.
    • 3/5
      Its was slow in the beginning, which took 2 weeks to read. However wanting to know more i kept on reading. The end was good and make you want to get the next book. Not sure if i will or not but thinking about it.
    • 3/5
      There were some fun parts on the book, Harper talking to the bust of Sekhmet outside Sotheby's and her very informative conversation with Temperance, Chastity and Prudence. I can imagine Harper cursing her fate, running around London talking to statues trying to save herself and her ex-boyfriend Will from vampires and other creatures of the dark. This wasn't the best of the four and I might have jumped the gun with my Mercy Thompson comparison. Harper Blaine is a strong heroine but her story's development is falling short. So I'm taking a break and maybe a dash of something fun will clean my palate a bit.
    • 4/5
      Vanished is the Greywalker book I’ve been waiting for - the one that finally answers questions and starts putting the pieces together. It’s darker than the previous installments as Harper tackles her past, revelations about her father, and the sinister plot she’s been unknowingly caught up in since the beginning. Good people get hurt, and Harper doesn’t always know who she can trust. Even though it’s grim, I really enjoyed the story, especially getting to meet another Greywalker. Not everything gets wrapped up in the end. In fact, we’re left with a sense of impending doom, knowing the events in Vanished are only the prelude to a much larger battle.The drama plays out in L.A. and London, a nice change of pace that further sets this story apart from the previous ones. The one negative is that I got a bit lost trying to envision Harper’s London. The constant references to names of streets, neighborhoods, and landmarks made so little sense to me that I was tempted to go get a map, but then I would have lost the story’s momentum. Despite my confusion with the London setting, I enjoyed Vanished and am looking forward to continuing the adventure back in Seattle with the fifth book, Labyrinth.
    • 5/5
      This is the fourth book in the Greywalker series, and in it Harper is visited by the ghost of an ex-boyfriend, who warns her that nothing is as it seems. Harper goes back to her family home to learn more about her past, then travels to England as part of a case involving vampires.The Greywalker series is based on the interesting premise that there is a world parallel to ours; this world is called the Grey, and it is populated by ghosts and other supernatural creatures. The Grey is layered with slices of time, in which old buildings exist and ghosts act out parts of their previous lives. Most people cannot see the Grey, though some people can communicate with inhabitants of the Grey. Enter our heroine, Harper. She is a detective in Seattle who is attacked and dies for a few minutes before being revived. Afterward, she is able to see into the Grey and is called a Greywalker. Harper is helped by Quinton, an off-the-grid technician, and Ben and Mara Danziger, who study the Grey and help her understand what she is seeing and experiencing. This story in the series introduces a mystery revolving around Harper's family, and it is interesting to follow Harper as she unravels the threads of the mystery. It's also fun to have Harper travel to London and describe the layers of ghosts that inhabit that historic city.
    • 4/5
      The fourth book in Kat Richardson’s Greywalker series, Vanished, is the best in the series so far. Harper Blaine, Richardson’s private investigator protagonist, gets a telephone call from an old boyfriend – not necessarily an unusual event, except that, in this case, the boyfriend happens to be long dead. He hints that there is much that Harper does not know that she needs to find out, quickly, and encourages her to come to Los Angeles to look into her past.Los Angeles is not a place Harper enjoys visiting. She doesn’t get along with her mother, who appears to be weaving a net around husband-to-be number five. Mom is obsessed with appearances and materialistic in the extreme. But she holds information about Harper’s father, and, unknowingly, about Harper herself. It seems there was more to Harper’s temporary death – the one that lasted all of two minutes and gave her the ability to see and move about in the Grey – than was immediately apparent.Harper returns to Seattle in response to an urgent summons from Edward Kammerling, the vampire who rules over all of Seattle’s other vampires. It’s not that Harper likes him – far from it – but the vampire is too powerful for Harper to ignore or snub him. Kammerling hires her to travel to England to find out why the keeper of his accounts in that part of the world has gone silent. Harper is actually happy to have the excuse, because she’s been having nightmares about her former boyfriend, Will Novak, and wants to make certain that he’s okay.London is where things start getting really nasty. There is an order of vampires that is sufficiently different and more powerful as to be very nearly another species, the asetem-ankh-astet. As one might guess from their name, they are Egyptian in origin, and have a leader called a Pharaohn. The Pharaohn, who has been maneuvering to get Harper into his clutches for reasons as yet unknown, is Wygan, the disc jockey who inserted a tangle of Grey into Harper way back in the first or second book in the series. Wygan has teamed up with a vampire Harper greatly fears and whom she had believed dead, all to capture Harper and, apparently, kill and resurrect her yet again – with dire consequences to be expected, but again, their nature is mysterious. These asetem have captured and are torturing Will as a means to get Harper under their control, and she needs to find a way to rescue them without becoming a tool for these horrible creatures to use to their own ends.Richardson’s writing is improving the more she writes. She is making people and places more and more visible for the reader, such as in describing a man this way:"He was a tall man who stooped horribly and had a small potbelly, so he looked like a numeral six. His hair had thinned into a monk’s tonsure and the bags under his eyes were heavier than those in an industrial laundry. Even pale in death, his nose, cheeks, and ears were reddened by the spiderweb veins of alcohol abuse."It’s not an elegant description, but it’s perfect for the noir tone of this series. And Richardson does noir dialogue pretty well, too: “I fake sangfroid really well. Just close your eyes and think of ice cream.” It was hard for me to read that line and not hear Lauren Bacall say to Humphrey Bogart, “You know how to whistle, don’t you?” in To Have and Have Not.Richardson has also ramped up the quality of her plotting. This is a nice, tight novel in which everything happens for a reason. Despite the length of the book, nothing is extraneous. Richardson has done her homework in the byways of London, delving into historical geography even down to the sewers. Reading about Kat slipping into and out of temporaclines in order to figure out what’s going on is a great pleasure.Beware: this book doesn’t solve all, or even most, of the mysteries it posits. For that, you need to go on to the fifth book in the series, Labyrinth – assuming that Labyrinth has all the answers. I don’t know yet, as I’ve just started it, right on the heels of finishing Vanished. I’m rather glad that I didn’t discover this series until now, as a wait between Vanished and Labyrinth would have been unendurable. This way I get to fully immerse myself in Richardson’s world. I’m glad I’m reading about it and not living in it, heaven knows, but it sure is fun to read about Harper’s many perils.
    • 4/5
      This is the 4th book in the Greywalker series. The 5th book Labyrinth was just released; last I heard there are 6 books planned for this series. This book was a great addition to the series and it tied together a lot of the occasional random things that happened in the previous books. I listened to this on audio book; which was okay. The lady reading the audio book has a little trouble distinguishing male voice, but other than that it was well done.Harper is having nightmares and receiving ghostly phone calls telling her she has to go back to her past if she is going to figure out what is happening to the supernatural world at large. This takes her to California for a visit to her mother, here she finds out new information about her father. She is forced to leave California in a hurry when vampire lord of Seattle, Edward, requests her help with something that is happening in London. So off to London she goes. What she finds there is creepy and wide-reaching. She finds she is part of a plan that started before she was born and the results of it might destroy the supernatural world as she knows it.This was a great book. Some of the strange unexplained things that happened in previous books finally make sense. In fact it was impressive how nicely Richardson tied everything together, you can tell she really thought this through and everything that happens in this series was planned from the beginning. Richardson focuses on a specific area for each book, in this case that was the history of London and London as a city. This was very cool since I had the pleasure of vacationing London earlier this year.Harper approaches things a very practical attitude, plans out things meticulously and is smart; I always enjoy this compared to other series I have read where the heroine is scatter-brained and confused. Will and Michael are back in the picture for a bit; Quentin is mostly absent. We get the addition of some new characters that are fascinating; especially the fellow Greywalker Harper runs into.We learn a ton about Harper's past and her powers as a Greywalker are further explored. I enjoyed all of it. The story does a great job of wrapping up the London storyline but leaves Seattle on the brink of disaster, as well as handing out additional questions about how Harper's father is involved with everything.I did miss the inclusion of Quentin and Chaos, the ferret, as a result this book didn't have as much humor as previous ones. I did think that the plot was wonderfully intricate and that the description and characters were awesome. I really enjoy Richardson's writing style.Overall another excellent addition to the series. I can't wait to get my hands on Labyrinth.
    • 5/5
      This is one of my favorite series, especially in the urban fantasy genre. I loved learning more about Quinton, a character the reader meets in the first book of the series and gets to know a little bit about to be supremely intrigued (I know I was). I was pleased to see a lot more of Quinton this time around and a lot less of Will, the boyfriend in book one and two. Richardson uses folklore to create the monster that is attacking Seattle's homeless and what a monster it is. Freaked me right the hell out, but Lady K thought it was scary with a funny name. She named it Sissy-Doodle and that is the name that has stuck in my cranium (sorry Kat). Helped to take the ick out of the attacker's leftovers.Zombies, vampires, ghosts, all that good stuff makes for a superb outing in this one, my favorite in the series so far. Five ancient monsters named Sissy-Doodle beans......
    • 4/5
      A rather interesting book, compelling and fascinating enough to read cover to cover in a night.
    • 3/5
      Harper Blaine is the stereotypical hard-boiled detective, and in the opening chapter of the first book Greywalker she is viciously assaulted by someone she's been investigating and is clinically dead for about seven minutes. When she recovers, nothing is the same. She sees things that aren't there, she's propelled into some sort of misty, dark otherwhere, she's seeing the things that go bump in the night. In effect, that misty borderland between the natural and the supernatural is called the Grey and she now has a permanent passport to travel there. There's no going back to regular life.Vanished takes place in England. Harper learns about her past, meets another greywalker, rescues ex-boyfriend who has been taken hostage by hostile vampires (bet he believes in the crazy stories now), and realizes that she is the linchpin to an EVIL PLOT that goes back a long time. This time it's ancient Egypt that contributes to the supernatural plot elements.So what do I like about the stories? She does her homework and does a good job with the scenery and exposition to give readers a feel for the locales. She has a fair sprinkling of different cultures and racial groups--detective Solis is a Colombian by birth, then there's the Jamaican Mason family, the various Native Americans who show up in Underground. Harper owns a ferret. She does a great job portraying ferrets as pets, and it is certainly a nice change from all of the cat owners in mysteries.What don't I like? The characters are shuffled in and out of stories with no real pacing or development, just sudden left turns and departures. Each story is entirely crisis management, there's no sense that Harper has anything approaching a normal routine, even if the normal has been redefined. Never any visits with friends or plans for a restful weekend or calls from annoying relatives. So the characters are essentially cardboard cutouts that are moved around the board as needed without any sort of convincing motivation or sense of inevitability.And most commonly, Harper's reactions to the Grey and to vampires and to whatever else is nausea. But boy, she keeps trooping right along with the nausea and other physical discomforts. As someone who's gone through chemotherapy, it's kind of disturbing to have nausea tossed in there as the most common physical symptom Harper contends with, and yet she just shrugs it off. Shit, there's whole suites of pharmaceuticals and endless brochures and books of advice for how to cope with nausea, which can be quite debilitating, and continue to get vital nutrients and survive. I don't think the author has any grasp of it, really, and every time I read about the nausea in the story it makes my guts twinge.Similarly, her interactions with the vampires. She has profound physical reactions to them, admits they scare the pants off her, but then she just blithely handles them. Once again, doesn't convince me. And as a friend pointed out, they have such prosaic names: Edward, Carlos, Alice, Gwen, and so on.So if you want quick entertainment that will occupy you for a few hours, with characters you aren't really going to become attached to, this is the series. It's kinda like the John Grisham of urban fantasy. Kat Richardson is certainly better than some others I've read in this style. I'm not going to go out and buy any of these books though, and I'm returning the ones I borrowed.
    • 3/5
      Harper is having nightmares about her ex-boyfriend, Will. She dreams repeatedly of him being tortured and dismembered but when she calls to check up on him in England, his younger brother Michael assures her he's fine.When she's visited by the ghost of a different ex-boyfriend who tells her she's not what she thinks she goes back to home to California and does a little digging in her past where she learns things really aren't as they seem. She believed her father died in an accident when she was a young child but learns from her mother it wasn't an accident, it was suicide. And she had a cousin who drowned when they'd gone swimming together in a forbidden lake, something she'd completely forgotten about.Her trip is cut short when the vampire Edward practically summons her back to Seattle and all but begs her to look after his interests in England. His friend and financial adviser has dropped off the radar and things in England are unsettled. Since she's continuing to have nightmares about Will she takes it as an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone.There are a lot of interesting things in this book. It's finally revealed that there's more to Harper being a Greywalker than the fact that she died and came back. I was glad to see it because that had always struck me as a kind of lame explanation.The other Greywalker she meets is an interesting character and I'd like to see more of him and learn more about what makes the Greywalkers different.I would have liked to see more of Quinton, but it made sense he wasn't in this book as much.I'm not sure what it was but I had a lot of trouble getting immersed in this story. I found myself skimming an awful lot but I'm having trouble figuring out why that is. It's possible that it's partly that I'm getting tired of the centuries long feuds and power struggles between vampires. I always thought of Will as one dimensional and not particularly likable so I didn't really care if he was in danger. For whatever reason, the whole book just felt very flat to me.
    • 5/5
      This is a series that has gotten better with each book. The action continued through the story, and some explanations and answers are given about her greywalking ability. There are other Greywalkers also, including her father. There also seems to be another kinds of vampires. It was kind of nice to get her out of Seattle, if only to put her in more danger, and with the cliffhanger she left, I hope that the fifth book is ready to come out soon.