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Title details for If Something Happens to Me by Alex Finlay - Available

If Something Happens to Me

A Novel

by Alex Finlay
Helen Laser
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This program features multicast narration.
A USA Today Bestseller!
From "one of the genre's most exciting voices" (E! News) comes one of the year's most-anticipated thrillers.

For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open. The crushing blow to the head. The hands yanking him from the vehicle. His girlfriend Ali's piercing scream as she is taken.
With no trace of Ali or the car, a cloud of suspicion hangs over Ryan. But with no proof and a good lawyer, he's never charged, though that doesn't matter to the podcasters and internet trolls. Now, Ryan has changed his last name, and entered law school. He's put his past behind him.
Until, on a summer trip abroad to Italy with his law-school classmates, Ryan gets a call from his father: Ali's car has finally been found, submerged in a lake in his hometown. Inside are two dead men and a cryptic note with five words written on the envelope in Ali's handwriting: If something happens to me...
Then, halfway around the world, the unthinkable happens: Ryan sees the man who has haunted his dreams since that night.
As Ryan races from the rolling hills of Tuscany, to a rural village in the UK, to the glittering streets of Paris in search of the truth, he has no idea that his salvation may lie with a young sheriff's deputy in Kansas working her first case, and a mobster in Philadelphia who's experienced tragedy of his own.
In classic Alex Finlay form, If Something Happens to Me is told by several distinct, compelling characters whose paths intersect, detonating into a story of twist after pulse-pounding twist. The novel cements Finlay as one of the leading thriller writers today.
A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books.

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    May 28, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9781250347725
      • File size: 209384 KB
      • Duration: 07:16:12

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from April 15, 2024
      Finlay (What Have We Done) returns with a tightly coiled spine tingler about a law student under suspicion for his high school girlfriend’s disappearance. Five years ago, while Ryan Richardson and his girlfriend, Alison Lane, were on a date, Ryan fell unconscious and Alison vanished. After Ryan woke up, he recovered vague memories of being attacked by a man with a missing finger, but the residents of Leavenworth, Kans., quickly came to suspect him of killing Alison. Now, Ryan has changed his name and fled Leavenworth for law school. He’s on a summer trip to Italy when he learns that Alison’s car has been discovered in a Kansas lake—but her remains are nowhere to be found. Instead, the waterlogged vehicle contains the skeletons of two unknown men and a cryptic note from Alison. In Tuscany, Ryan catches a glimpse of a man who resembles his and Alison’s possible attacker and ends up chasing him across Europe. Meanwhile, back in Kansas, the deputy who recovered Alison’s car traces the case to unexpected corners of Philadelphia. As in Finlay’s previous novels, relentless pacing, impressive characterizations, and the author’s knack for surprise combine to produce top-shelf entertainment. This is a smart, unpredictable winner.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Paul Dateh, Helen Laser, and John Pirhalla guide listeners through the multiple subplots and settings of this mystery. The story begins in Leavenworth, Kansas, with high school basketball star Ryan Richardson and his girlfriend, Alison. While parked on Lover's Lane they're attacked, and Alison and her car disappear. Listeners rejoin Ryan five years later while he's on a law school trip to Italy. He's still grappling with guilt. Then the story moves to Philadelphia and the life of mob boss Shane O'Leary and his family. Each chapter is identified by location and presented from a third-person perspective by a different narrator. While the plot and its intersections stretch credulity, the overall listening experience is thoroughly engaging from beginning to end. E.Q. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine
    • Library Journal

      December 6, 2024

      In this tale that's told from three vantage points--those of law student Ryan (narrated by Paul Dateh), deputy sheriff Poppy (narrated by Helen Laser), and crime boss Shane O'Leary (narrated by John Pirhalla)--Finlay develops histories, adds twists and turns, and weaves everything into a humdinger of a climax. Five years ago, Ryan was attacked; his girlfriend, Ali, and her car disappeared; and, although cleared of suspicion in Ali's presumed death, he can't shake the stigma of guilt. Dateh deftly captures Paul's anger, earnestness, and determination after he spots and pursues his attacker when visiting Italy. Meanwhile, Poppy, the rookie deputy in her Kansas hometown, is assigned Ali's cold case when new evidence surfaces. Laser embodies not only Poppy's spunky spirit but also the questing thoughts she has regarding the case. And in Philadelphia, Shane O'Leary seeks revenge on the teens whose bullying he believes drove his son to suicide. Shane's rage is deeper for one girl and her father (his accountant) after they skip town with some of his money. Pirhalla balances O'Leary's growling darkness with his gentleness for his wife and does the same for the criminal's brutal associate and his grandson. VERDICT Finlay's (The Night Shift) latest action-packed thriller doesn't disappoint, as its trio of stellar narrators never lets the intensity lag.--Stephanie Bange

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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