The Broken

Echoes from the Past, Book 8

By: Irina Shapiro

Narrated by: Wendy Wolfson

2015. When the skeletal remains of a dismembered infant are found in an elderly couple’s garden, Quinn is called in to investigate the circumstances of the child’s death. As the case unfolds, she finds herself overwhelmed both by the tragedy she’s forced to witness and a devastating betrayal in her own life. Blindsided, Quinn must examine her own choices before she loses everything she holds dear.

1955. When Helen meets David, she thinks she’s finally met her soulmate, a man who not only loves her but understands her and shares her hopes for the future. When she stumbles onto a long-buried secret, she finds herself on a collision course with destiny and discovers that disaster can strike in unexpected ways.

©2019 Merlin Press LLC (P)2020 Irina Shapiro

Love This Series!

This story in the Echoes from the Past Series was really great. Based on the time period of the story of the “past”, I had a foreboding while listening to this story and knew what was in store for Helen and David. There’s plenty of dreadful surprises in both of the stories in this book, and both the conclusion and the shocking epilogue will leave you thinking about the events of this book well past its end. (I had a premonition, though, that this is what really happened…) I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

The best of the series

This is the best of the series. The twists and turns are riveting. Highly recommend (but read the others first!)

Review of all eight in the series

This series is one of the best I’ve ever read. Each book focuses on an episode of a TV program for the BBC. Over the 8 books the cast of characters is large but Ms Shapiro expertly weaves their storyline into that of the main character. While many of the loose ends are tied up by the end of this series, to me the sign of a good storyteller is when you want to be able to grab the next book because you still want to know more about all of the characters. Since joining Audible I’ve read at least 100 books and enjoyed all of them but this is my first review, it was that good!

Wow!

Epilog...I didn’t see that coming!! Another great book Irina...
Please write another in the series 😢.
Quinn’s brother tipped the creep meter. So let’s have him take over for Quinn with her as an advisor

Great series.

Another good book in a good series. This one had some twists I wasn't expecting. Looking forward to listening to the last one in this series.

Superb bit if entrancing storytelling.

History, Scifi, and Romance. What else would you want? Irina is consistent in her ability to provide you with hours of adventure.

Wonderful Series

Echoes from the Past is a wonderful series for those of us to enjoy time travel. Irina Shapiro has written stories that provide excitement and adventure not only in the story of the past lives but also in the main characters lives. It was hard for me to stop listening and once finished with one book eager to begin the next one.
Wendy Wolfson was a excellent choice to narrate this series.

Audible please provide more books by Irina Shapiro

We all have secrets

Oh my! So many secrets that affect so many lives. I’ll admit that I didn’t read the other books in this series. The idea of the mystery of the dismembered baby is what caught my attention. Some of the characters back stories were a bit confusing because I didn’t read the other books, but it didn’t matter to me. I was hooked! Great suspense, great plot. I’ll be looking into more books in this series!

The Broken

This is a fantastic series that I really enjoyed I love how the Author tided all the ends up. The Author has brought to fruition a fantastic series of stories in a very unique way that really kept me captivated. I could not put this listen down until I was done listening to it. The Author has done a fantastic job with this series and The Narrator has done a fantastic job with all the voices of the characters as well. I would love to see this series made into a series. But I definitely recommend this series the Author has a very creative mind and created a fantastic series. If I could give it more than 5 stars I definitely would.
Shauna Joesten

The Broken

Echoes from the Past is a great series! The characters are interesting and well developed. I love Irina Shapiro’s story telling method using two time periods in this series and her “Wonderland” series. I hope she writes some new series with dual time periods exploring mysteries in ancient civilizations with modern characters. Wendy Wolfson’s performance was terrific!