Hidden Nature
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4.2 • 143 Ratings
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
“Golden Voice January LaVoy gives the listener a thoroughly enjoyable experience.” — AudioFile (Earphones Award Winner)
The #1 New York Times-bestselling author presents a novel about an injured cop who must fight to bring down a pair of twisted killers…
This program is read by January LaVoy, seven-time Audie Award–winner, Grammy nominee and AudioFile Golden Voice.
Natural Resources police officer, Sloan Cooper, and her partner had just taken down three men preying on hikers in the Western Maryland mountains. Driving back, she pulled in at a convenience store—and walked right into a robbery in progress. One gunshot from a jittery thief was about to change her world.
After being shocked back to life on the operating table, she has a long recovery ahead, so she moves back to her parents’ peaceful house in Heron’s Rest. As for the boyfriend who dumped her via text while she was in the hospital, good riddance.
She may be down, but she’s not out. So when a woman vanishes, leaving her car behind in a supermarket parking lot, Sloan searches online for similar cases. She finds them, spread across three states. Men and women, old and young—the missing seem to have nothing in common. And the abductions keep happening.
Luckily, the new man in her life shares her passion for solving this mystery. But it will take every ounce of endurance to get to the dark heart of this bizarre case—and she's willing to risk her life again if that's what it takes to stop the horror.
"Narrator January LaVoy brings a richly layered performance to a story.... She expertly handles the large cast of multigenerational characters" —AudioFile on Hideaway
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Nora Roberts delivers a brilliant new combination of mystery, romance, and suspense in this listen. After returning to her childhood home to recover from a gunshot wound, police officer Sloan Cooper decides to try her hand at a little online sleuthing. Before long, she’s connecting the dots between a series of unsolved disappearances and finding the time to strike up a connection with a cute guy named Nash who runs a local home-renovation business—and who doesn’t mind her passion for investigation one bit. Sloan is a fantastic heroine with a winsome sense of dogged determination. We felt totally wrapped up in the cozy, familiar atmosphere of her hometown. But as Sloan gets closer to the bizarre and gruesome truth about the cases she’s following, the story quickly goes from intriguing to exciting to downright gripping. Narrator January LaVoy’s poise and sensitivity are great for this wonderfully suspenseful listen.
Customer Reviews
Very suspenseful
Great story line!
Hidden Beneath the Surface
We are living in a time where basic competence often gets confused with greatness—especially from high-profile names—and I think that’s worth saying out loud. This book barely gets by. And that’s not enough. Hidden Nature is readable, but that’s where the praise ends. The characters feel flat—more like outlines than people—with personality traits swapped in for real character development. The plot moves but lacks suspense, mystery, or emotional depth. Marketed as a thriller, it never rises above mildly engaging. Disappointing from a writer capable of more.
Love this story
Thank you for another great read. I am always happy when January LeVoy is the narrator.