There is a small yellow backpack – contents strewn around it, abandoned on a suburban footpath. There are the tracks of tyres coming to an end at a crippled stop sign.
Anyone walking past can feel the prickle on the back of their necks that tells them something happened a vehicle careening to a halt., a child’s backpack left in a hurry. Then they see two words, hastily scrawled on the sidewalk. Written in blood.
FIND US.
Find Us was originally released as an Audible Original, and is also available in a 2-in-1 print book called Fool Me Twice.
Now this was something different. The twist was totally unexpected, and I loved it at the time. Afterwards however, I realize the motivation for the kidnapping wasn’t fully explained, so that’s why I give four stars instead of five. It was still brilliant for such a short suspense novel.
4.50 Stars (rnd ⬇️) — This is 4hrs of straightup porn- thriller!!! All the elements of suspense are covered and Benjamin does a stellar job building tension with a confronting & no holds-barred perspective that hits the “oh shit” button from page one!!!
Best enjoyed on a long and familiar drive, where you can pay attention without having to hold too much narrative notes at one time.
The author has outdone himself here in the evil stakes, creating genuine horror for the reader by ensuring they feel some empathy for these disgustingly awful protagonists!!!
Free for Audible members, free audiobooks don’t get any better than this. If the my do — I have some hunting ahead of me ✅
A mom, a kidnapping, an FBI-agent, a history of catfishing, and of course...revenge! There's quite a bit of implausibility but still a fun ride. Audiobook was about 3 hours.
Oh this is so good! So good! Either Side of Midnight was one of my favourite books last year and I had to get this Audible Original. I did love the nod to this book in Find Us too!
Very clever and twisty - just as I like them! All the stars!
Listeners follow special FBI asset and single mother (Collette) as she desperately tries to find her children who have been kidnapped. The story has many twists and turns with the biggest one being at the end.
4/5 ⭐️ I definitely wasn’t expecting what actually happened! My only complaint is I wish it had been longer. It seemed a bit rushed, which is usually try for most short stories.
This book was super disturbing, and I can’t say I really enjoyed it, but I’m impressed with the twists and so I upped my rating from 3 to 4 because I didn’t see them coming.
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Wow…what a strange little story. Unexpected and even a tad jaw-dropping. Short but not under-developed. I am surprised that it didn’t have more narrators since this is an Audible Original…they usually have additional narrators for each point of view. But it wasn’t a deal-breaker by any means.
Listened to the audiobook in one trip back and forth between CT and ME. Yes, it had some big twists but they were telegraphed so obviously that when they happened I wasn’t really surprised. Also, our main character’s children, who are central to the story, are both obnoxious brats- especially the girl. I wasn’t invested at all. Thank goodness this book was a freebie with my Audible membership. I will not be looking up any more books by this author.
I'll be honest, until the last part this was a 2 stars for me. Then it went up to 4.4 and the ending took it down to 3 stars.
Two kids disappear and they turn out to be the kids of a former police/detective woman. She does everything in her power to find them although, of course, she is not part of the official investigation.
The story is told from the mom's perspective and the kidnapper's perspective.
Even though it's a short book, the first two thirds felt long and dragged and barely kept my interest. I enjoyed the twist in the end, very disturbing to be honest, but the actual ending was a let down for me.
A fantastic short story that had me absorbed, slightly disturbed, and a little terrified particularly because I am a mother myself. And the ending!!!!! Gripping but at the same time infuriating.
I read this short story in one sitting and couldn't get through the pages fast enough. I loved how it flicked between different POV - mother and kidnappers - allowing you to know things that some of the other characters weren't privy to. This was so well written and it gave heaps of clever clues along the way. Although the motive wasn't fully explained for both the kidnappers, I still throughly enjoyed it. However as a mum I am more than a little freaked out by it.
This was much darker than the other book I have read by this author - Everyone in my Family has Killed Someone.
Fast paced, suspenseful and confronting thriller with the twists you just don't see what's coming. I see the author has 2 other mystery books that look equally as suspenseful.
While the storyline had potential the whole book was meh. I like the idea of the main character but she as well as the others have no depth to them. If you need a book that’s just a filler for something to do, this one was okay. More along the lines of a cozy mystery, nothing fantastic. The author could have done so much more with this book. A really good author can use more descriptive words than explicit language. If you have to relay on those adjectives, adverbs and verbs, you really haven’t made it as an author.
The mom is a secret FBI agent, her kids get kidnapped and she goes vigilante. Throw in some unnecessary language and that’s about the extent of the book.
Trigger warning: explicit language, violence against children.
Not bad for something I got 'for free' on Audible. Positives: I liked the narrator's voice and performance, manages to pack in quite a bit of narrative for a short listen, it was interesting enough that I finished it, it was bold enough to go with a realistically bleak ending Negatives: I guessed the big twist less than halfway through which made it a lot less compelling, characters are not particularly well developed, some interesting themes are hinted at but not developed in the 4 hour window, I do not enjoy an 'evil child' trope (referencing Holly here)
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
This was not what I expected at all - in a good way. I didn’t see it coming. Although, not sure if I like the way it ended and the motive wasn’t ever fully explained. It was very short and I feel like it could have used some further fleshing out.