If She Wakes, Michael Koryta
If She Wakes, Michael Koryta
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If She Wakes

Author: Michael Koryta

Narrator: Robert Petkoff

Unabridged: 12 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/14/2019


Synopsis

Two women fight for their lives against an enigmatic killer in this electrifying novel from a New York Times bestselling author and "master" of thriller writing (Stephen King).
Tara Beckley is a senior at idyllic Hammel College in Maine. As she drives to deliver a visiting professor to a conference, a horrific car accident kills the professor and leaves Tara in a vegetative state. At least, so her doctors think. In fact, she's a prisoner of locked-in syndrome: fully alert but unable to move a muscle. Trapped in her body, she learns that someone powerful wants her dead -- but why? And what can she do, lying in a hospital bed, to stop them?
Abby Kaplan, an insurance investigator, is hired by the college to look in to Tara's case. A former stunt driver, Abby returned home after a disaster in Hollywood left an actor dead and her own reputation -- and nerves -- shattered. Despite the fog of trauma, she can tell that Tara's car crash was no accident. When she starts asking questions, things quickly spin out of control, leaving Abby on the run and a mysterious young hit man named Dax Blackwell hard on her heels.
Full of pulse-pounding tension, If She Wakes is a searing, breakneck thriller from the genre's "best of the best" (Michael Connelly).

About Michael Koryta

Michael Koryta is the New York Times bestselling author of fourteen novels. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages and have won or been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Edgar Award, Shamus Award, Barry Award, Quill Award, International Thriller Writers Award, and the Golden Dagger. Visit him online at MichaelKoryta.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Susanne on May 28, 2019

4 Awesome, Tension Filled Stars! A Visiting Professor, murdered. College Student, Tara Beckley, now in a Coma. An Insurance Investigator is positive that the Police have it all wrong. A Hit Man covering up the tracks. Is anyone safe? As Abby Kaplan, the Insurance Investigator discovers, the answer to......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea on April 16, 2019

This wasn't a bad book, but I'm starting to feel that I'm just not 100% compatible with Michael Koryta's new books. This is a shame, because I'm an avid cheerleader of all his older works, and perhaps this makes me biased, but it's tough to engage with your standard mob thriller when you know an aut......more

Goodreads review by Holly on April 22, 2019

A college student, Tara Beckley, finds herself entangled in a sinister plot when her part-time job gives her the assignment of transporting a professor to a conference. The tension builds as they travel along and you just know something is just not quite right.  Wild ride ahead... Things go horrib......more

Goodreads review by Tucker on May 23, 2020

Many thanks to Little Brown for sending me a copy in exchange for an honest review So much of the terrain is unknown, but none of it is unknowable. There is a critical difference in that. When I say this book went at breakneck speed, what I mean is it literally was so fast and twisty that,......more

Goodreads review by Howard on September 14, 2022

4.5 Stars for If She Wakes (audiobook) by Michael Koryta read by Robert Petkoff. Wow, this was quite a thrill ride. Lots of action and suspense. One woman trying to regain consciousness and another trying to track down a killer.......more


Quotes

One of South Florida Sun-Sentinel's Best Mystery Books of 2019!

"An edgy suspense story...that brilliantly plays on the primal fear of being buried alive."—Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review

"Multi-award winning author Michael Koryta again shows his affinity for smoothly melding sophisticated action with solid character development - even when one of the individuals is in a coma... Koryta is such a polished writer that his plots zip by as he delves into the amorality of Dax and the humanity of Abby and Tara, whose personality emerges, despite being paralyzed. Believable twists propel the tense "If She Wakes" as it moves to a surprising finale."—Associated Press

"Another superb effort...a nail-biter throughout."—Chicago Tribune

"In If She Wakes Michael Koryta gives readers not one or two but four formidable female leads...Koryta writes them with confidence, and each is someone to be reckoned with."—Shelf Awareness

"Koryta keeps the action fast and furious, tempered with his characters' determination to persevere against all odds."—Bookpage

"A good thriller to kick up your feet and read."—BookRiot

"Adept at creating Hitchcockian moments, Koryta keeps the suspense high throughout."—Publisher's Weekly

"It's a measure of how good this book is that the chilling, masterfully sustained suspense is only one of its standout achievements. Koryta never brushes off anyone's death; he makes you feel for the victims. The relationship between Tara and her sibling is beautifully nuanced, full of revealing details going back to their childhood. Koryta has never been better than with this knuckle-biting thriller."—Kirkus

"it's the human element, the stories of two young women trying to reclaim their lives, that makes If She Wakes so compelling."—Tampa Bay Times