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    The Last One Home
    The Last One Home
    The Last One Home
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Last One Home

    Written by Victoria Helen Stone

    Narrated by Arielle DeLisle and Vanessa Johansson

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    About this audiobook

    A razor-sharp novel of suspense about the lies families tell—and those we choose to believe—by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Jane Doe.

    Lauren Abrams wants nothing to do with her damaged mother, whose spurious testimony sent Lauren’s father to prison for murder years ago. After a serial killer’s confession to the crime restored justice, Lauren chose to live with her father and grandmother. Now an adult, Lauren has come home to the Sacramento family estate for good, her mother’s lies be damned…

    It’s been decades since Donna made her cheating boyfriend pay, but she hasn’t forgotten the past. She knows her estranged daughter has made a terrible mistake by returning to the estate. There’s more to the story of the welcoming old homestead—and her childhood—than Lauren knows.

    As Lauren settles in, she is haunted by the questions of what really happened with her father, what her mother might be hiding, and what secrets the family ranch holds. It’s getting so dark, Lauren may not be able to see the truth to save her life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMar 30, 2021
    ISBN9781713560197
    The Last One Home
    Author

    Victoria Helen Stone

    Victoria Helen Stone is the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Jane Doe and Problem Child in the Jane Doe series; At the Quiet Edge; The Last One Home; Half Past; False Step; and Evelyn, After. She is also the author of twenty-nine books as USA Today bestselling author Victoria Dahl and the recipient of the prestigious American Library Association Reading List award for best genre fiction. Published in more than a dozen languages, Victoria writes in her home office high in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, far from her origins in the flattest plains of Minnesota, Texas, and Oklahoma. She enjoys summer trail hikes in the mountains almost as much as she enjoys staying inside by the fire during winter. Victoria is passionate about dessert, true crime, and her terror of mosquitoes. For more information, visit www.victoriahelenstone.com.

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    • 5/5
      One of the best books I've listened to in a long time.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Kept me guessing. I really liked this book. I recommend it.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      It was really good! The middle might be a little boring, but totally worth it with the twist ending! Also the mother-daughter relationship made me cry! I loved it

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      I’m not sure what I didn’t like but I just didn’t enjoy it was much at this author’s other books. The twist was good, and the narrators did a great job but it didn’t really grab me ?
    • 4/5
      It is a very cool story but maybe the characters should have been reaged. The 35 yr old main protagonist acts like a 20 year old. I spent a long time trying to figure out her age and when it mentioned it, it just doesn't line up. The elder characters don't act their age either. The father is 70 but has teenage kids (believable) but is sprite and the grandmother would be at least 90 and acts/talks like at most a 70 year old. The discrepancy btw the way the characters acted vs their stated age kept pulling me put of the story
    • 5/5
      A good story.

      You just never know do you? Who to trust.

      The narrative was a bit off, one sounded like she was in a phone booth recording.
    • 5/5
      Sooooooo good!! Grabs you and doesn’t let go, the narrator has a way of really bringing the characters to life. Lots of twist and turns, and that ending! Such a good listen
    • 3/5
      The narrator sounded like 1. The ending of the book seemed rushed. ...besides that, it was an ok book
    • 5/5
      Parts it was redundant; there were other chapters that were amazing. I thought I knew but I was off
    • 4/5
      I found that the narrator was too young for the age of Laura all the way through I pictured her as a teenager but she is 35
      Apart from that it was a really good story. A bit predictable but worth a listen

      1 person found this helpful