You Never Said Goodbye
A Novel
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4.3 • 7 Ratings
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
Named a best thriller of 2022 by PopSugar!
"Local Woman Missing meets The Fugitive…breathes new life into the psychological thriller genre.” — C.L. Taylor, Sunday Times bestselling author of Her Last Holiday
“This is a rip-roaring and, at times, a touching thriller from a writer who has been favourably compared to Harlan Coben and Linwood Barclay...and rightly so." — Belfast Telegraph
The day she died was only the beginning...
Sam Cooper is on the verge of a happy life—a true feat after his disastrous childhood. Sam’s mother, Laurie, died tragically and his father was torn apart by grief. But now after years of silence, Sam’s father makes a shocking confession on his deathbed.
Who was Laurie Cooper? What happens when you discover you’ve been lied to for twenty-five years? Sam is determined to find out, but someone wants to silence the truth forever. Following a trail from London to Connecticut, Sam will have to uncover exactly what his mother did and why—no matter the cost.
From the author of The Bone Keeper comes a purely thrilling thriller, a game of cat-and-mouse full of twists and turns, propelling readers through an action-packed, life-or-death mystery to the explosive conclusion.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Sam Cooper, the 34-year-old narrator of this energetic if lightweight thriller from Veste (The Bone Keeper), believes his mother, Laurie, was killed in a car wreck before he moved as a boy from the U.S. to England with his emotionally traumatized father, David. But when Sam visits his savagely beaten father on his father's deathbed, David murmurs that Laurie is alive. Sam is soon off in search of a ghost, closely trailed by Carson and Hunter, two casually vicious American thugs in the pay of Laurie's current husband, a possessive sadist—and by the enigmatic Jackson, who has a separate, unknown employer. When the quest takes Sam to America, he discovers new allies (perhaps) and more misdirection as he grapples with the question of why, if she didn't die, his mother has hidden from him for 25 years. The action that follows is frantic and inventive, as bit players are finished with one shot while the principal characters survive remarkable quantities of bullets and beatings. This isn't for those seeking nuanced characterizations.
