The Wrong Girl, Hank Phillippi Ryan
The Wrong Girl, Hank Phillippi Ryan
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The Wrong Girl

Author: Hank Phillippi Ryan

Narrator: Ilyana Kadushin

Unabridged: 13 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/10/2013

Synopsis

Award-winning and Boston Globe bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan presents a spine-chilling, heart-wrenching suspense novel that explores a terrifying scenario striking at the heart of every family.

Does a respected adoption agency have a frightening secret? Tipped off by a determined ex-colleague on a desperate quest to find her birth mother, Boston newspaper reporter Jane Ryland begins to suspect that the agency is engaging in the ultimate betrayal—reuniting birth parents with the wrong children.

For detective Jake Brogan and his partner, a young woman's brutal murder seems a sadly predictable case of domestic violence, one that results in two toddlers being shuttled into the foster care system. Then Jake finds an empty cradle at the murder scene. Where is the baby who should have been sleeping there?

Jane and Jake are soon on a trail full of twists and turns that takes them deep into the heart of a foster care system in crisis and threatens to blow the lid off an adoption agency scandal. When the threatening phone calls start, Jane knows she is on the right track…but with both a killer at large and an infant missing, time is running out….

The Wrong Girl is a riveting novel of familial relationships—both known and unknown—vile greed, senseless murder, and the ultimate in deception. What if you didn't know the truth about your own family?

Includes a bonus interview with Hank Phillippi Ryan

About Hank Phillippi Ryan

USA Today bestselling author HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN has won five Agatha Awards in addition to Anthony, Macavity, Daphne du Maurier, and Mary Higgins Clark Awards. As on-air investigative reporter for Boston's WHDH-TV, she's won 37 Emmys and many more journalism honors, and her work has resulted in new laws, criminals sent to prison, homes saved from foreclosure, and millions of dollars in restitution for victims and consumers. A past president of National Sisters in Crime and founder of MWA University, her novels include Trust Me, The Murder List, the Charlotte McNally series (starting with Prime Time), and the Jane Ryland series (which begins with The Other Woman). Ryan lives in Boston with her husband.

About Ilyana Kadushin

Ilyana Kadushin is best known for her narration of the Twilight audiobook series, and has worked on other audiobooks, including The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Post Grad and Dune, which won an Audie Award. Her other voice work includes national commercials, animation, and popular video games such as Lord of the Rings. Kadushin has performed as both an actor and a singer for companies including Nickelodeon, BBC America, Sesame Street Television, MTV, and Cartoon network. She sang on the soundtrack of HBO Best Documentary Film Award & Finalist Separate But Equal.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carmen on March 28, 2016

RE-READ 09/17/2015 This is the sequel to The Other Woman and #2 in the Jane Ryland series. Jane Ryland is a reporter. She is in love with Jake Brogan but they can never be together because he is a cop, and it would be a conflict of interest. This book deals with adoption, meeting your birth parents, f......more

Goodreads review by Janet on September 25, 2013

This book lost me in the first half hour. An adoptee, an ex-coworker, comes to Jane for help in investigating her biological mother because she feels that she has been given wrong information by the adoption agency. I'm wondering, why the fuss--get DNA testing. It's relatively inexpensive these days......more

Goodreads review by Micky on April 08, 2020

Multiple mysteries draw you in and as Jane pulls the threads to figure out where they lead, she finds herself entwined in a large knot of inconsistencies that keep her pulling for the truth. Unfortunately she is also following the threads into greater peril with someone who obviously does not want h......more

Goodreads review by Donna on October 04, 2013

After reading the riveting suspenseful, well written The Other Woman, the first Jane Ryland novel, I literally couldn’t wait to read Ryan’s newest book The Wrong Girl. For some reason although I like the two main characters and enjoyed the book in parts, this book just didn’t resonate with me. The W......more

Goodreads review by Linda on April 02, 2015

The book started out a little slow, but then picked up steam and kept a fast pace until the very end. Lots of characters and lots of dead bodies. They all seem to be connected to a respected adoption agency. Jane Ryland, news reporter, is asked by her friend to investigate when she meets her birth mo......more

Quotes

“Narrator Kadushin has a great sense of timing, a pretty voice, and the ability to express emotion without overdoing it.” —Christian Science Monitor

“Kadushin's powerful voice takes the listener on a suspense-filled romp, expertly matching cadence to the story as it unfolds. Sometimes it is just a pause that highlights the sexual electricity between Ryland and Brogan; sometimes it is the speed with which the words come tumbling out that elicit the feelings of danger and excitement in this spellbinding mystery.” —Booklist

“Kadushin… narrates the fast-paced yarn with a whispery, breathy vocal that intrigues, adding a touch of mystery and secret-spilling gossip to the mix.” —Mystery Scene

Awards

  • Agatha Awards - Winner
  • Agatha Awards - Nominee
  • Anthony Awards - Nominee
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