Saving Emma

A Novel

De: Allen Eskens

Narrado por: Gary Tiedemann, Matt Godfrey, Saskia Maarleveld, Janina Edwards, Timothy Pabon

A lawyer's race to reveal a wrongful conviction collides with the dark shadow of a murder in his own home in this propulsive and perfectly-plotted thriller from "one of our best crime writers at the top of his game" (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author).

When Boady Sanden first receives the case of Elijah Matthews, he’s certain there’s not much he can do. Elijah, who believes himself to be a prophet, has been locked up in a psychiatric hospital for the past four years, convicted of brutally murdering the pastor of a megachurch. But as a law professor working for the Innocence Project, Boady agrees to look into Elijah’s file. When he does, he is alarmed to find threads that lead back to the death of his colleague and friend, Ben Pruitt, a man shot to death four years earlier in Boady’s own home.

Ben’s daughter, Emma, has lived with Boady and Boady’s wife Dee ever since that awful night. Now fourteen years old, Emma has been growing distant, and soon makes a fateful choice that takes her far from the safety of her godparents. Desperate to bring her home, and to free an innocent man, Boady must do all he can to investigate Elijah’s case while fighting to save the family he has deeply come to love.

Written with energy, propulsion, and his characteristic pathos and insight, Eskens delivers another pitch-perfect legal thriller that reveals a twisted murder and explores faith, love, family, and redemption along the way.

"Ambitious, absorbing, and deeply satisfying."―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Eskens brilliantly combines legal and personal drama." ―Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Superb . . . another Eskens novel to be savored." ―South Florida Sun-Sentinel

©2023 Allen Eskens (P)2023 Mulholland Books

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Eskens is at the top of his skills."—Oline H. Cogdill, The South Florida Sun Sentinel

"One of our best crime writers at the top of his game."—William Kent Kreuger, New York Times bestselling author of This Tender Land and Lightning Strike

Great work!

I’m impressed with the amount of raw emotion in the pages of this story! It was exactly what I needed right now. I think about prisoners doing sentences for crimes they didn’t commit and it reminds me that “law enforcement” everywhere is made up of human beings and we make mistakes. It’s a very high price for innocent people to pay but I think Elijah would say that if we look for God in everything we do, everything alway works out the way God planned it! Even if we don’t see the blessing right away.

So good!

I could not stop listening to this one. The characters are so interesting a story told so well! I’ve listened to (or read) several of Allen Eakins’ previous books and find it amazing how he connects the characters from one to the next.
The protagonist in Saving Emma (Boady) was one of the characters in previous books but never the protagonist as in this one. The entire book being told from his point of view was a big twist.
I loved it and look forward new more from this talented author!

Enjoyed it!

I loved the story line, it was written and performed very well. I will be following this Author for sure.

Great narrators

Excellent! Loved the narrators.
I have enjoyed listening to every one of Allen Eskens’ books!

great story

well written, well narrated. story was so well developed and played out to great surprise

Is it odd or is it God?

It amazes me how the author could weave such a tangled plot and pull it altogether at the end. The main character’s inability to see the hand of God in the end illustrates we humans can be blinded by our prejudices.

Keeps you guessing!

I found the author years ago on the daily deal and fell in love with his work. This book keeps you guessing and intertwines the two stories well! Worth the listen!

enjoyable but not my favorite

I have red almost all the books by this author and thoroughly enjoyed them. I love how he has developed characters and continued storylines within different books. this book was enjoyable, but it was very fast paced and I felt it lacked that little something extra in his other books. I would still recommend this book to anyone, especially if you've read his other books.

Enjoyable read that grabs you

I enjoyed this book because it hooked me in and I just wanted to find out what was going to happen.

Solid mystery

I liked this Boadie Sanden mystery as I like all Allen Eskens’ books. I particularly enjoyed all the different characters being narrated by different voice actors.