Author: Anne Frasier
Narrator: Erin Bennett
Series: Inland Empire (Book 1)
Publication: Brilliance Audio (July 1, 2020)
Length: 9 hours and 16 minutes
Description: A bone-chilling family history is unearthed in a heart-stopping thriller by New York Times best-selling author Anne Frasier.
Convicted serial killer Benjamin Fisher has finally offered to lead San Bernardino detective Daniel Ellis to the isolated graves of his victims. One catch: He'll only do it if FBI profiler Reni Fisher, his estranged daughter, accompanies them. As hard as it is to exhume her traumatic childhood, Reni can’t say no. She still feels complicit in her father’s crimes.
Perfect to play a lost little girl, Reni was the bait to lure unsuspecting women to their deaths. It's time for closure. For her. For the families. And for Daniel. He shares Reni's obsession with the past. Ever since he was a boy, he's been convinced that his mother was one of Fisher's victims.
Thirty years of bad memories are flooding back. A master manipulator has gained their trust. For Reni and Daniel, this isn't the end of a nightmare. It's only the beginning.
My Thoughts: The daughter of a serial killer and a man who believes that the killer murdered his mother team up in this excellent thriller.
Reni Fisher hasn't had anything to do with her father since he was arrested when she was a child. She had her own career as an FBI agent until she suffered a mental breakdown. She's been rebuilding her life as a pottery artist in the Mojave Desert.
Daniel Ellis is a San Bernardino detective who is convinced that Benjamin Fisher was the one who killed his mother when Daniel was a boy. She went out on a date and was never seen again. He's been trying to find her for thirty years.
Benjamin Fisher has finally offered to lead Daniel to the bodies, but he demands that Reni go along. Reni feels complicit in the crimes since her father convinced her to play a game and act as bait for his victims. That trauma has haunted her. Now Fisher wants to bring it all back. She agrees only because she wants closure for the victims' families.
When Fisher commits suicide by leaping off a cliff while he is supposedly directing the crew to his victims, both Reni and Daniel are disappointed. But a cryptic clue left by Benjamin along with flashbacks to both Daniel's past and Reni's give the two more possibilities to investigate.
This was an excellent audiobook which kept up the suspense of the story from beginning to end. I enjoyed the story enough to listen to it in one sitting which kept me up well into the night.
I bought this one March 7, 2022. You can buy your copy here.
I bought this one March 7, 2022. You can buy your copy here.
Talk about suspense. And convoluted!
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