Widow Lake

Detective Ellie Reeves, Book 8

By: Rita Herron

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

“Help,” a tiny voice cried out into the darkness. Little Betsy trembled, praying someone would hear her, save her. “Please,” she whimpered. “I’m scared.”

On the hottest day of the year, as a heatwave takes hold of the Appalachian Mountains, a five-year-old girl goes missing. Just as the sun is setting, a family vacation becomes a worst nightmare—Betsy, with her green eyes, ponytail, and rainbow T-shirt—disappears in the woods by Widow Lake. Detective Ellie Reeves is straight on the scene, promising Betsy’s heartbroken parents that she will stop at nothing to find their precious daughter.

Hours later, Ellie is called back to the lake. One of her team have discovered some remains near where Betsy disappeared. The bones belong to a local girl, Amy Dean, who vanished 10 years ago to the day, along with her two-year-old baby girl Paisley. But why was Paisley never reported missing? And could she still be alive?

Ellie is suddenly up against the toughest case of her career. Her instincts tell her that the two cases are somehow connected, and she works day and night to uncover the link. When she comes across some little graves beside the water’s edge, she knows she needs to stop the evil lurking around this tranquil lake.

When Ellie discovers a notebook scrawled with the handwriting of a little girl, it could be the breakthrough she needs. Can she unravel a decades-old mystery, and stop the monster claiming innocent lives?

This totally addictive and jaw-dropping crime thriller will have your heart racing! Perfect for fans of Melinda Leigh, Lisa Regan, and Kendra Elliot.

©2023 Rita Herron (P)2023 Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd.

Had to fast forward to finish

My eyes hurt from eye rolling. Improbable, inconsistent and not a very good story. I do not understand the good reviews.

Performance without emotions

There were some inflections in the voice of the narrator, but most the time it didn’t match the emotions going on and made it confusing. The narrator made the book do you enjoy.

Not impressed

Hard to tell whether it’s a really bad story, or a melodramatic narrator. Not sure why I even listened to the end. Full of clichés, and unnecessarily descriptors.

On and on and on!

Was very hard to keep up with who all the characters were! Narration was painful to listen to. Sometimes you hate for a book to end - not this one, I couldn’t finish this soon enough! Maybe better to read the book so you could keep up with all the characters

Horrible Narrator

The story was ok, a little confusing at times, moments skipped others dragged on but it was good. A bit predictable at the end with Lola, Ellie and Cord.

The narrator was horrible, her voice was irritating.

Narration was weak

Narrator sounded like she was reading a list of uninteresting phrases rather than a story.

bad narrator

the story was ok, but the narrator was so bad I almost stopped listening early on.

Eh

Pretty boring story it particularly well written - but the worst part was the narrator - sounded like AI and really poorly done

Not Very Good

Pretty ordinary story. Writing is somewhat amateurish. I found the narration to
be annoying. I tried slowing the speed, but this only made it worse.

it just didn't grab my attention at all

sometimes it kind of sounded like a computer was reading it, And I just couldn't get interested in any of the characters