Vanishing Hour
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4.0 • 16 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
"Corporate lawyer Ava Burch has had enough of the big city and the daily grind. She grew up with her father, who raised search-and-rescue dogs, in rural Texas and has moved to the small town of Cuervo to spend time in the dry, rugged wilderness near Big Bend National Park. When she and her dog, Huck, discover an abandoned campsite on a volunteer search-and-rescue mission, she’s perplexed, but she carefully photographs it all the same. All Grant Wycoff can see when he looks at Ava is a city slicker—with her designer jeans and shiny car—who has no business on a serious team made of seasoned outdoorsmen and retired cops. But when she tells him of her findings on the trail, he sees there’s more to her than meets the eye. Ava’s discovery reminds Grant of the unsolved case of a young woman who went missing two years ago. As they look into the campsite further, another woman disappears under odd circumstances. With time running out, Ava and Grant must work against the brutal heat from both the Texas sun and their own electric chemistry to solve the case."
Customer Reviews
So glad I purchased this audiobook!
I loved this audiobook. My first time with this author, but not my last. The storyline had no slow, boring parts where I started to lose interest. However, there were a couple of plot lines I didn’t think were resolved sufficiently. I almost didn’t buy it because of the breathiness of the narrator’s voice in the preview, but I overcame it and it didn’t bother me after all. I’m so glad I bought this audiobook!
So glad I found this author!
This review is of Vanishing Hour by Laura Griffin. It is one of her stand alone books.
I don’t remember who recommended this author to me, but I’m so glad they did!
Vanishing Hour is an amazing book about a search and rescue dog and his owner. Corporate lawyer Ava Burch has moved to western Texas with her dog. Deputy Sheriff Grant Wycoff doesn’t realize she’s more than just a pretty face until she and her dog Huck find an abandoned camp site. This is the beginning of a fast paced story about missing women and the attempt to find a killer. The descriptions of the park areas are so real, I could feel the heat even though it just snowed here yesterday! And the characters are so well developed, you understand them and their actions. I listened to the audiobook and am just as impressed with the narrator Julia Atwood. The book seems to be moving slowly, but the reader can feel the tension building as they get closer and closer to the killer. I had plenty of things I needed to do, but the book pulled me in and I couldn’t stop listening.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
Addictive!
Laura Griffin is one of my favorite go to authors for Romantic Suspense. Her stories are always so fascinating to me. She writes about main characters who are in one job or another that would be involved with investigating a crime or multiple crimes like the Vanishing Hour and I'm always hooked with their job and how they investigate.
In this one, Ava is a lawyer who also has a search and rescue dog. She gets involved with a search for a missing boy that ends up leading to something much bigger. She has a high inquisitive nature that won't let her leave what she finds to the authorities and ends up investigating on her own. This introduces Grant, one of the investigative officers, and you see a romance bloom in the midst of a dangerous situation. Like I said...fascinating!
I listened to the audible version of this book and Julie Atwood did a fantastic job of narrating this story. She made it very easy to get lost in the audiobook and did such a good job of each character that I never had trouble knowing which characters she was portraying. I highly recommend this audiobook.