One of Us, Tawni ODell
One of Us, Tawni ODell
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One of Us

Author: Tawni O'Dell

Narrator: Nick Podehl, Amy McFadden

Unabridged: 9 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/19/2014


Synopsis

From the New York Times bestselling author of Back Roads comes a fast-paced literary thriller about a forensic psychologist forced to face his own demons after discovering his small hometown terrorized by a serial killer.Dr. Sheridan Doyle—a fastidiously groomed and TV-friendly forensic psychologist—is the go-to shrink for the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office whenever a twisted killer’s mind eludes other experts. But beneath his Armani pinstripes, he’s still Danny Doyle, the awkward, terrified, bullied boy from a blue-collar mining family, plagued by panic attacks and haunted by the tragic death of his little sister and mental unraveling of his mother years ago.Returning to a hometown grappling with its own ghosts, Danny finds a dead body at the infamous Lost Creek gallows where a band of rebellious Irish miners was once executed. Strangely, the body is connected to the wealthy family responsible for the miners' deaths. Teaming up with veteran detective Rafe, a father-like figure from his youth, Danny—in pursuit of a killer—comes dangerously close to startling truths about his family, his past, and himself.In this masterfully told psychological thriller in the vein of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, the past and present collide to put Lost Creek’s long-lived ghosts to bed.

About Tawni O'Dell

Tawni O'Dell is the New York Times bestselling author of the critically acclaimed novels Back Roads, Coal Run, Sister Mine, and Fragile Beasts. She was born and raised in the coal-mining region of western Pennsylvania. Visit her website at tawniodell.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Robert on August 25, 2014

If you look up the term cold-hearted bitch in the dictionary, you’re liable to find a picture of Scarlet Dawes. She has evil figured out so well she could suck your soul out of your body from three feet away. And then she’d kick your decaying corpse with her stiletto heel while carrying her Gucci pu......more

Goodreads review by Leanne on June 19, 2014

One of Us is not exactly a mystery novel. It has some of the elements of one - deep, dark family secrets, strange and seemingly random murders, a psychologist who studies the minds of serial killers - but the difference here is that we watch the deaths as they happen, through the eyes of the killer.......more

Goodreads review by SUSAN *Nevertheless,she persisted* on January 11, 2015

I really wanted to like this book.It caught my interest and kept until the introduction of Scarlet Dawes. She was a fork in the toaster. Scarlet killed the flow of the book and her character was ackward and farfetched. As I read on,I began to feel that many of the characters acted/reacted in an unbe......more

Goodreads review by Maxine on October 12, 2014

After reading reviews with strong praise for this book I was excited to get stuck into it. However, I struggled from the start to really connect with the imagery and the characters, at times it felt like the book was slipping from my grasp, I had to strain to concentrate at times, in short I found i......more

Goodreads review by Wendy on November 26, 2014

One Of Us is set in Lost Creek, an old coal mining town in Appalachia, that has been haunted by a macabre history. Sheridan (Danny) Doyle was raised by an abusive father and a mentally unstable mother who was convicted of killing his baby sister and burying her in the back yard when Danny was 5. He r......more