The Boy: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

An unfathomable reduction or an unthinkable crime? #1 NY Times bestselling author Tami Hoag will keep you guessing in her most harrowing thriller yet.

A panic-stricken girl runs in the dead of night time, battered and bloodied, desperate to find help….

When Detective Nick Fourcade enters the house of Genevieve Gauthier beyond your sleepy town of Bayou Breaux, Louisiana, the bloody crime picture that awaits him is both most brutal and the most confusing he’s ever seen. Genevieve’s seven-year-old son, about The Boy: A Novel KJ, continues to be murdered by an alleged intruder, however Genevieve can be alive and well, a see inexplicably left out to tell the tale. There is absolutely no evidence of pressured entry, not really a idea that points to a motive. In the mean time, Nick’s wife, Detective Annie Broussard, sits in the emergency room using the grieving Genevieve. A mother herself, Annie understands the psychological devastation this female is certainly going through, but as a detective she’s troubled by a story that makes small sense. Who murder a kid and keep the only witness behind?

When the very next day KJ’s sometimes babysitter, twelve-year-old Nora Florette, is reported missing, the city is up in arms, fearing a maniac is preying on their children. With pressure mounting from a hardcore, no-nonsense new sheriff, the press, as well as the parents of Bayou Breaux, Nick and Annie dig deep into the dual mysteries. But sifting through Genevieve Gauthier’s tangled web of lovers and sorting through a cast of local lowlifes brings more questions than answers. Can be somebody from Genevieve’s past or present in charge of the loss of life of her boy? Is the missing teen, Nora, a sufferer, or something worse? Then everything changes when Genevieve’s past as a convicted criminal involves light.

The spotlight falls heavily within the grieving mother who’s both victim and accused. Could she have killed her personal child to free of charge herself of the burden of motherhood, or is the lack of her beloved young man pushing her to the advantage of insanity? Could she possess something regarding the disappearance of Nora Florette, or may be the stressed teenager the main element to the murder? What lengths will Nick and Annie have to go to uncover the dark truth from the boy?