All of Us Were Sophie

By: Resa Nelson

Narrated by: Resa Nelson

How far would you go to save your own life?

Sophie is desperate, and desperate people do desperate things. On the run and hiding out in her husband Jack’s private machine shop, she sees one solution. Only a few clients know about Jack’s new creation—a machine that can duplicate expensive machine parts. Knowing a murderer is hot on her heels, Sophie takes a leap of faith and uses the machine on herself, knowing if it works, the machine will create exact copies of Sophie with her life experience and memories intact.

She knows for sure that when a machine part is duplicated, the original is obliterated by the process.

What she doesn’t know is that the duplication process also will destroy short-term memory.

When a handful of Sophies are created, they don’t know what has happened. The last two weeks of Sophie’s life is a mystery to them. They don’t know a killer is about to open fire on them. They don’t know Jack has been murdered, and Sophie is next on the killer’s list.

Making a frantic escape, all of the Sophie must come to terms with being duplicates while stumbling upon clues left behind by the original Sophie that only they will understand.

All of the Sophies must evade a small-town detective who teams up with a state expert to investigate Jack’s murder and the strange evidence discovered at his machine shop. Sophie is their prime suspect.

Unaware of the duplication technology, Jack’s killer closes in fast on one of the Sophies after the duplicates split up and take the murder investigation into their own hands.

That investigation reveals different secrets to every duplicate, leading each Sophie in a new direction that will change her forever.

©2013, 2014, 2015 Resa Nelson (P)2023 Resa Nelson

Compelling sci-fi mystery

I’ve read several of Resa Nelson’s fantasy stories, historical fantasy/mystery stories, science fiction stories, and now having listened to All of Us Were Sophie I can say I’ve experienced a hard science fiction murder mystery. When I started listening to this story, I wasn’t sure where it was going, but Resa’s stories have never let me down so I figured if I were patient I would be rewarded and I was right. After listening to a couple of chapters I was hooked on what was happening to the Sophies and why someone wanted to kill Sophie. Once this story sets its hook the reader is in for an experience that isn’t just entertaining but makes them wonder “what if” any of this were possible. Because I listened to the audiobook version of the story, I was able to enjoy Resa Nelson’s excellent narration that brought not only the story to life, but each character through individual voices.