The Empty Bed: A Novel


Unabridged Audiobook

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1
Narrator
1
Release Date
January 2020
Duration
8 hours 33 minutes
Summary
Catherine excels at helping desperate people disappear. But now she must use her unique skill set to find a missing woman in this electrifying novel from the author of The Burial Society.

Eva Lombard is being followed. Or so she suspects. . . .

Eva and her husband, Peter, are in Hong Kong on a romantic getaway from London when Peter wakes up in their hotel room to an empty bed, his wife gone without a trace. His worst fears are confirmed: Eva wasn’t imagining things. Suddenly, he finds himself the number one suspect in his wife’s disappearance, trapped in a foreign country with no one to turn to. He calls his boss, Forrest “Holly” Holcomb, who enlists the help of Catherine, his ex-flame and the enigmatic operator behind the darknet witness-protection program known as the Burial Society.

As a favor to Holly, Catherine sends her team of highly trained Society members on a dangerous chase through Hong Kong to find Eva—while Catherine takes care of pressing business at home. Not only is she tasked with a mission in Mexico City, protecting a family that knows too much from a vengeful pharmaceutical company, but an FBI agent tracking down the missing wife and child of a charismatic businessman is about to come dangerously close to exposing the Society’s secrets.

In these intertwining story lines that converge in unexpected ways, not everyone is who they appear to be—and not everyone who is lost wants to be found.
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Linda M.

I got this novel because it was mentioned in a review as being "a good summer read." I needed something light but this book was too light for me. The plot was interesting and was intertwined with two other plots and in the end they all resolved but the unlikeliness of the actions of the characters, the lack of character development, and the sheer unlikeliness of much of what happened in the book was too much - there needed to be some level of verisimilitude and there wasn't any. This, together with the narrator's (a female) inability to take on the voice of a male in any convincing way, made the whole package bad.

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